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From: R M ….

Where does one even begin? A state within a state....

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/do-the-kochs-have-their-own-spy-network?mbid=nl_151119_Daily&CNDID=14581184&spMailingID=8272075&spUserID=NjU2MzY4NTA3ODES1&spJobID=801907437&spReportId=ODAxOTA3NDM3S0

…today, the Politico reporter Kenneth Vogel came out with a blockbuster scoop suggesting that the brothers, whose organization has vowed to spend an unprecedented eight hundred and eighty-nine million dollars in the 2016 election cycle, are more involved in covert operations than even their own partners have known.

After culling through the latest legally required disclosures, Vogel unearthed a new front group within the Kochs’ expanding network of affiliated nonprofit organizations—a high-tech surveillance and intelligence-gathering outfit devoted to stealthily tracking liberal and Democratic groups which Politico calls the “Koch Intelligence Agency.” The sleuthing operation reportedly includes twenty-five employees, one of whom formerly worked as an analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency, and follows opponents by harvesting high-tech geodata from their social-media posts.