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Intel Firm Was Hired To Discredit Former Obama Iran Deal Negotiators

The firm is Black Cube, according to The New Yorker: the same company reportedly hired by Harvey Weinstein in 2016 to investigate the women and journalists he thought might come forward with allegations against him. Black Cube Canada Goose online touts that the company is run by “a select group Canada Goose Parka of veterans from the Israeli elite intelligence units.”The Observer reports that an Israeli intelligence firm was hired by aides to President Trump, “who contacted private investigators in May last year to ‘get dirt’ on Ben Rhodes, who had been one of Barack Obama’s top national security advisers, and Colin Kahl, deputy assistant to Obama, as part of an uk canada goose outlet elaborate attempt to discredit the deal.”Sources told the Observer that Trump’s team had contacted the firm just days after he visited Israel last May. “The idea was that people cheap Canada Goose acting for Trump would discredit those who were Canada Goose Outlet pivotal in selling uk canada goose the deal, making it easier to pull out of it,” a source told the newspaper.A Black Cube spokesman told NPR that the firm was never hired by anyone within the Trump administration and said Black Cube’s clients have business rather than political interests. But the company would neither confirm nor deny that a business client had hired the firm to do the work described in the New Yorker and Observer reports.The White House did not respond to NPR’s request for comment.In the New Yorker, Ronan Farrow writes that a source told him “it was, in fact, part of Black Cube’s work for a private sector client pursuing commercial interests related to sanctions on Iran.”The documents he reviewed, Farrow says,”show that Black Cube compiled detailed background profiles of several individuals, including Rhodes and Kahl, that featured their addresses, information on their family members, and even the makes of their cars. Black Cube agents were instructed to try to find damaging information about them, including unsubstantiated claims canada goose uk shop that Rhodes and Kahl had worked closely with Iran lobbyists and were personally enriched through their policy work on Iran (they denied those claims); rumors that Rhodes was one of the Obama staffers responsible for “unmasking” Trump transition officials who were named in intelligence documents (Rhodes denied the claim); canadian goose jacket and an allegation that one of the individuals targeted Canada Goose Jackets by the campaign had an affair.The campaign is strikingly similar to an operation that Black Cube ran on behalf of Harvey Weinstein, canada goose black friday sale which was reported in The New Yorker last fall. One of Weinstein’s attorneys, David Boies, hired Black Cube to halt the publication of sexual misconduct allegations against Weinstein. Black Cube operatives used false identities to track women with allegations, and also reporters seeking to expose the story.”Kahl tells NPR that he first heard he had been a target of the firm’s smear campaign about a week ago, Canada Goose Online “when reporters who were working on the story for The Observer and Guardian just sent me an email out of the blue, saying that in the course of their previous investigation on Cambridge Analytica, they had uncovered information suggesting that Ben Rhodes and I had been targeted by some firm..After a conversation with Farrow on Sunday, “it became clear that the fake company that had reached out to my wife was actually the same fake company that this Israeli firm, Black Cube, had used to try to discredit some of the accusers of Harvey Weinstein,” Kahl says.Farrow tells NPR that when he was reporting on the allegations against Weinstein, agents using false identities reached out to him, too, at Weinstein’s behest “in some cases using the same front companies used in the Iran operation.”Kahl, now a canada goose uk black friday senior fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, called the targeting “outrageous.””There’s the outrage that anybody would target former government officials and try to dig up dirt on them in their personal capacity to try canada goose store to discredit the policy positions they had in government that’s just that just awful, period. It’s especially awful that Canada Goose Coats On Sale they not only went after me, but that they went after my family,” he says. “So it’s just creepy on a bunch of levels. But he notes that during the same period when the firm was reportedly hired, he Canada Goose sale and Rhodes were repeatedly the subject of attacks by senior canada goose outlet Trump aides.Last May, former White House aide Sebastian Gorka referred on Fox News to “the Ben Rhodes/Colin Kahl nexus.” A month later, a senior Trump official told The Washington Free Beacon that Rhodes and Kahl “provide marching orders to a broader group of canada goose uk outlet people that are associated with the broader [Democratic Party] Podesta Clinton network.”And Kahl notes one thing that makes him an odd target for spies: He is no longer working in government.”I mean it happens in the intel world,” he says. “Intelligence communities spy on foreign officials. It’s, I think, rarer for them to spy on former government officials. And so canada goose coats on sale one of the weird things about this is not that there would be intelligence collected on officials of the Obama administration, but why that intelligence would be collected on them after canada goose coats we left the Obama administration.”.

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