Government contractors targeted Chamber of Commerce's critics

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Three data security firms submitted a plan to the Chamber of Commerce's law firm to monitor and discredit the chamber's critics, e-mails show. A proposal to help Bank of America was also requested.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-chamber-20110215,0,4153077,full.story

Hoping to win a lucrative agreement with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, three data security contractors for federal defense and intelligence agencies developed a proposal to monitor and manipulate the chamber's left-leaning critics, according to recently released e-mail correspondence.

Employees of the firms compiled short dossiers on a few activists that included photographs, references to their families and charts of their relationships with other liberal and labor leaders.

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ThinkProgress, an arm of the liberal Center for American Progress and a consistent critic of the chamber, first reported on the e-mails on its blog last week.

[RandomThoughts]

1. I know that concept.

It is to try to get people to think they have to hide or be silent. It is to present a backward view of power.

Anyone unjustly targeted like that, will be a gain for what the targeted group supports.

Those actions are mostly done to try and break stands.

[glinda]

2. Well it is obvious that the Chamber is another arm of our Government.

:grr: :nuke: :banghead: :hide: