The Times notes the lobbying campaign undertaken by Honduran interests. First, depose a president. Second, hire a lobbyist. (Some might dispute whether a president was “deposed,” of course, but it makes the lead a little catchier.)
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Foreign Lobbying Tracker News
The Post discovered The Sunlight Foundation’s Foreign Lobbying Tracker website. The Sunlight Foundation, which promotes open government, and ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative news operation, have teamed up to create a searchable, easily accessible, downloadable database of filings from July 2007 through the end of 2008 by about 300 foreign agents. It’s searchable by country, lobbyist, […]
Tracking Foreign Lobbying
A new Sunlight Foundation/ProPublica project tracks foreign lobbying and is available here.