Investigators have found that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce paid a law firm to initiate a campaign of political sabotage against unions and other progressive groups that have opposed its policies.
ThinkProgress announced Feb. 10 that it had learned that Chamber lawyers hired private security companies to develop tactics for damaging progressive groups and labor unions, in particular Change to Win, the labor coalition, the Service Employees International Union, U.S. Chamber Watch, Stop The Chamber.com and ThinkProgress itself.
One of the campaigns developed by the security companies, according to the ThinkProgress investigation, was an entrapment scheme.
The proposal called for first creating a "false document, perhaps highlighting periodical financial information," to give to a progressive group opposing the Chamber, and then to subsequently expose the document as a fake to undermine the credibility of the Chamber's opponents.
In addition, the security groups proposed creating a "fake insider persona" at the Chamber to "generate communications" with Change to Win.
The investigation showed the security firms hired by the Chamber lawyers had hoped to get $200,000 for their initial background research and then charge the Chamber as much as $2 million for the entire campaign of disinformation against the progressive groups. The ThinkProgress investigation may have short-circuited the Chamber's ability to carry out the final plans.
rest at http://peoplesworld.org/u-s-chamber-planned-dirty-tricks-smears-against-unions/
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