The Conflicts Of Interest Hiding Behind Pro-Pipeline Op-Eds Around The Country
Reprinted with permission from MediaMatters.
A retired general wrote numerous op-eds attacking pipeline protesters without disclosing his financial ties to the pipeline industry, including to a security contractor that has used “counterterrorism measures” against those protesters. That deception has led at least one publication to prohibit him from writing in its pages in the future.
James “Spider” Marks serves as a CNN military analyst after retiring from the Army under the rank of major general. He is also the advisory board chair for the international security firm TigerSwan.
Energy Transfer Partners hired TigerSwan to provide security for the Dakota Access Pipeline. As The Intercept has documented in past months, TigerSwan used “military-style counterterrorism measures” against protesters and conducted “sweeping and invasive surveillance of” them. In interviews with Grist, several legal experts “described the contractor’s tactics as highly disturbing and perhaps unprecedented.”
http://www.nationalmemo.com/conflicts-interest-hiding-behind-pro-pipeline-op-eds-around-country/
A Manifest Destiny ass****. We have not forgotten.......................
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