{"id":8461,"date":"2011-04-09T20:30:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T03:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8461"},"modified":"2013-11-27T21:04:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T05:04:22","slug":"on-my-kpfk-show-this-past-week-rep-hank-johnson-the-us-chamber-of-commerce-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8461","title":{"rendered":"On My KPFK Show This Past Week: Rep. Hank Johnson &#038; the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/KPFK_BradBlog.gif\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">I was so busy this week, I failed to post my Wednesday show on <a href=\"http:\/\/KPFK.org\">KPFK\/Pacifica Radio<\/a> here in Los Angeles. This week, I covered the latest news in the revelations about the <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8354\">U.S. Chamber of Commerce plot to use tools developed for the &#8220;War on Terror&#8221;<\/a> to target progressive organizations, citizens and journalists (including yours truly and my family) here in the U.S., with an attempted smear campaign to discredit by planting fraudulent documents, infiltrating with &#8220;fake personas&#8221; via social media, and employing cyber-snooping tactics against the Chamber&#8217;s perceived political enemies.<\/p>\n<p>The show includes parts of my interview from <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8443\">Monday&#8217;s <i>Mike Malloy Show<\/i><\/a> with Congressman Hank Johnson (D, GA-4) who is leading an effort in Congress to <a href=\"http:\/\/hankjohnson.house.gov\/2011\/03\/rep-johnson-seeks-intelligence-firms-contracts-in-chamberleaks-scandal.shtml\"><i>try<\/i> and bring some accountability<\/a> to the conspirators in the proposed $12 million plot hatched for the U.S. Chamber, the world&#8217;s most powerful Rightwing lobbying group, their law firm Hunton &#038; Williams, one of the nation&#8217;s largest and most powerful, and three U.S. government contracted cyber-security, intelligence and data firms, HBGary Federal, Palantir Technologies and Berico Technologies.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/KPFK_BradFriedman_USChamber_HankJohnson_040611.mp3\">MP3 Download<\/a>, or listen online below [appx 28 mins&#8230;]<\/i><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/KPFK_BradFriedman_USChamber_HankJohnson_040611.mp3]<\/blockquote>\n<p><b>P.S.<\/b> Still looking for a name for this weekly Wednesday, half-hour, usually-live show heard at 3:30pm PT each week on air in Southern California and around the world via <a href=\"http:\/\/KPFK.org\">KPFK.org<\/a>. 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