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Ken Silverstein. Turkmenistan: How Washington Lobbyists Fought to Flack for a Stalinist Dictatorship. (New York: Random House, 2008).
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From [[The Power of Nightmares]]: ... [[neo-conservative]] magazine ... set up what was called the [[Arkansas Project]] to vilify then President [[Bill Clinton]]. The principal character at the center of this project was [[David Brock]], who subsequently recanted his allegations, and refers to the project now as "political terrorism".
Editor Tyrrell travelled to [[Kazakhstan ]] in 1999, along with several other conservative journalists, with his travel expenses paid for by the [[Carmen Group]], a Washington D.C. lobbying firm paid by the authoritarian Kazakh government for PR work. Kazakhstan's president [[Nursaltan Nasarbayev ]] had recently barred his most viable opponent from contesting a presidential election and shortly after sent the opponent into exile. Tyrell, contradicting the opinion of human rights groups and the US State Department, provided a substantially upbeat assessment as to the state of freedom of expression in Kazakhstan in a Washington Times op-ed after he returned from his trip. Neither Tyrell nor the other conservative journalists who reported on Kazakhstan disclosed that their expenses for the trip had been paid by the Carmen Group.<ref>*Ken Silverstein, [http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/01/sb-plenty-of-loopholes-1168542976 "Plenty of Loopholes in New Lobbying Regulations,"], "Harper's Magazine," January 11 2007.</ref>
==Contact details==
Web: http://www.spectator.org
==Articles and Resourcesresources== ===Related SourceWatch Articlesarticles===* [[R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.]]* [[Richard Mellon Scaife]]
===References===
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===External linksresources===
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Spectator ''The American Spectator''] at the Wikipedia.
* Ken Silverstein, "Turkmenistan: How Washington Lobbyists Fought to Flack for a Stalinist Dictatorship" (New York: Random House, 2008).
===External articles===
*Jonathan Broder and Joe Conason, [http://www.salon.com/news/1998/06/cov_08news.html "The American Spectator's funny money"], Salon.com, June 8, 1998.
*[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/scaifeside050299.htm " 'Arkansas Project' Led to Turmoil and Rifts"], ''Washington Post'', May 2, 1999.
*Byron York, [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200111/york "The Life and Death of The American Spectator"], ''The Atlantic'', November 2001.
*Ken Silverstein, [http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/01/sb-plenty-of-loopholes-1168542976 "Plenty of Loopholes in New Lobbying Regulations,"], "Harper's Magazine," January 11 , 2007 .
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