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Nov 5, 2009 24 min

Underreported: Foreign Countries and Lobbying

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Countries such as Honduras and Sudan have come under fire recently for hiring PR and lobbying firms to make the case for them to American lawmakers. We’ll speak with Ken Silverstein, Washington Editor for Harper’s magazine about how foreign governments use lobbying firms in Washington D.C. to advance their agenda. You can read Ken's article "Their Men in Washington" from 2007 here.

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