by Sally Denton
“Forget that Pollard”: Woolsey, quoted in Klein, Shock Doctrine.
“President Obama was considering clemency”: Helene Cooper, “Obama Turns to Biden to Reassure Jewish Voters, and Get Them to Contribute Too,” New York Times, September 30, 2011.302 “doubts”: Baker, WhoWhatWhy, March 7, 2013.
“never expressed interest”: The Jonathan Jay Pollard Espionage Case.
“With little fanfare”: Aaron Klein, “Exposed: Secret Memo Reveals Pollard Sentence a Sham,” WND, February 23, 2015.
“The recent disclosures” . . . “any harm that may”: Lauer and Semmelman op-ed, www.wnd.com/2015/02/feds-lied-for-30-years-about-jonathan-pollard/.
“was surely inspired”: McFarlane, February 9, 2012, letter in support of Pollard’s release, quoted in Klein, Shock Doctrine.
had once agreed: Economist, “Caspar Weinberger.”
CHAPTER FORTY-TWO: THE KINGDOM OF BECHTELISTAN
“fiery ball” . . . “After the ash”: Quoted from marketing material of Magic World, www.exlinedesign.com/entertainment/portfolio/theme/magiworl.htm.
“a clear contradiction”: Jamal Elshayyal, “Secret Files: US Officials Aided Gaddafi,” Aljazeera, August 31, 2011.
“the logic of an impoverished”: Paul Lewis, “U.S. Ambassador to Kosovo Hired by Construction Firm He Lobbied For,” Guardian (Manchester, UK), April 14, 2014.
“The highway’s black vein”: Brunwasser, “Steamrolled.”
“acted inappropriately”: Lewis, “U.S. Ambassador to Kosovo.”
“slanderous”: Brunwasser, “Steamrolled.”
“It isn’t every day” . . . “the local political elite” . . . “were boondoggles” . . . “not only to choose”: Ibid.
“the case study”: Davis, “It’s a Bechtel World.”
“Bechtel plays politics”: Greider, “Boys from Bechtel.”
“as either a shining success”: Davis, “It’s a Bechtel World.”
“Bechtel is a mighty”: Rep. Henry Gonzalez, Remarks made in the US House of Representatives, 1992.
“often going to the universities”: Davis, “It’s a Bechtel World.”
“Neither Steve”: Author interview with Philip M. Smith.
“outside the realm”: Davis, “It’s a Bechtel World.” In 2014, the S.D. Bechtel Jr. Foundation, which is not part of the Bechtel Group Foundation, gave $25 million to the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy as part of its plan to spend down its assets by 2020. Meanwhile, the company became a visible sponsor of some National Public Radio stations, including KNPR in Las Vegas and KQED in San Francisco, and in 2015, the Bechtel-led team at the Hanford, Washington vitrification site donated more than $590,000 to local community organizations.
“Bechtel has a three-point” . . . “company spinmeisters”: A. C. Thompson, “Inside Bechtel’s Spin Machine,” ZNET Communications, May 10, 2004, www.zcommunications.org.
“engages in the political process” . . . “The implication that Bechtel”: www.Bechtel.com, April 29, 2003.
“The first thing they did”: Author interview with Laton McCartney.
“errors on more” . . . “preposterous” . . . “corporate networking”: Labaton, “Role in Scuttled.”
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