The issue is not source but transparency

How Foreign Money Can Find Its Way Into Political Campaigns: "Yet foreign governments and corporations are openly spending tens of millions of dollars a year buying influence in Washington by hiring well-connected lobbyists, according to research by the Sunlight Foundation and others who have examined the filings those lobbyists have to make to the Justice Department." We need to know who is doing what. Then we can judge whether what they are doing makes any sense. We should be concentrating on morphing journalism into saturation investigation linking whistleblowing to authority outlets. This is the ground being ploughed by Pro Publica and Human Rights Watch.

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