Ex-Goldman Banker Behind WSJ 'SMEAR CAMPAIGN' Against Elizabeth Warren

[Segami]

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WASHINGTON -- A Wall Street Journal editorial writer who has been closely involved with the paper's recent attacks on Elizabeth Warren is a former Goldman Sachs banker. The same editorial writer, Mary Kissel, is readying another piece critical of Warren and the new consumer agency, according to a source familiar with the coming article. Like most major newspapers, the Journal does not disclose the authors of its editorials. Kissel recently appeared on the John Batchelor radio show as a representative of the Journal's editorial board to discuss Warren, and repeated the main arguments used in the editorials.


The editorials paint both Warren and the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as an immensely powerful, unaccountable organization. The nascent agency is assuming the consumer protection duties currently exercised by regulators at the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The author, Mary Kissel, worked for Goldman between 1999 and 2002 as a fixed income research and capital markets specialist.

Kissel is listed on the Journal's website as a member of the editorial staff and her bio includes her time at Goldman Sachs and notes that she worked for the company in both New York and London. On Wednesay, Warren testified before a House subcomittee, providing 34 pages of written answers while submitting to two-and-a-half hours of aggressive questioning from congressional Republicans, who deployed talking points similar to those used in the recent Journal editorials.


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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/17/ex-goldman-banker-smear-elizabeth-warren_n_837185.html



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[jillan]

1. Do we ever attack anyone on their side? And why are they so successful on

attacking Dems? I swear they go from one to another to another.

[jwirr]

3. Anonymous does.

[snot]

4. Not with lies.

[midnight]

6. True...

[msongs]

5. "we" hire "them" to be cabinet secretaries in charge of regulating....."themselves" nt

[upi402]

2. "the Journal does not disclose the authors of its editorials"

Yet Mary Kissel is credited as the author. I must be having another brainfart. Is it assumed she was the author because she cited article talking point, like the Repukes did? How is it confirmed?

I wouldn't doubt it at all, but would like to know.