Timothy Geithner Owed Back Taxes, Became Treasury Secretary.

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16. I think a lot of people are asking that question. I saw Jeremy Scahill on Twitter tonight

and if anyone can get to the bottom of it, he can.

I have some suspects considering that we know Greenwald was a target before, thanks to the Anonymous exposure of HB Gary's emails. They led to more 'Spy Corporations' who do this kind of work for Big Corporations, and for the Chamber of Commerce eg. The FBI was implicated in that mess, and one of our Democratic Reps in Congress called for an investigation into the possible illegal involvement of the FBI. So far, nothing has come of that.

Here's a link that dealt with the smears that were planned for Greenwald among others at the time:

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/02/10/143428/chamberleaks-target-families/
US Chamber’s Lobbyists Solicited Firm To Investigate Opponents’ Families, Children

According to e-mails obtained by ThinkProgress, the Chamber hired the lobbying firm Hunton and Williams. Attorneys for the firm solicited a set of private security firms — HBGary Federal, Palantir, and Berico Technologies (collectively called Team Themis) — to develop a sabotage campaign against progressive groups and labor unions, including ThinkProgress, the labor coalition Change to Win, SEIU, US Chamber Watch, and StopTheChamber.com.

New emails reveal that the private spy company investigated the families and children of the Chamber’s political opponents. The apparent spearhead of this project was Aaron Barr, an executive at HBGary. Barr circulated numerous emails and documents detailing information about political opponents’ children, spouses, and personal lives.

One of the targets was Mike Gehrke, a former staffer with Change to Win. Among the information circulated about Gehrke was the specific “Jewish church” he attended and a link to pictures of his wife and two children (sensitive information was redacted by ThinkProgress):

Here's the kind of nasty thing they do, despicable actually and you wonder why it is not illegal:



I have no doubt this is a paid-for smear campaign, and I hope some of the investigative journalists who are appalled by it, and have said so publicly, will start using their skills to expose them.