The Desperate Campaign to Discredit Jane Mayer for reporting on the Koch brothrs.

Last August, Jane Mayer wrote a long investigative article in The New Yorker about the Koch brothers, the conservative billionaires who bankroll a host of right-wing causes. Since then, she's apparently become the victim of a disturbing, organized smear campaign.

Mayer, who's reported extensively on America's use of torture during the "War on Terror" and co-authored books on Clarence Thomas and Ronald Reagan, is certainly no stranger to peals of right-wing outrage. But her work on the reclusive Koch brothers (whose official objections to the story are laid out in this letter) seems to have raised it to a new level. Sources tell us that rumors have been circulating for some time now that a private investigator was hired to dig up dirt on Mayer in the wake of the Koch brothers story. (Dirty business, but that sort of thing does happen.)

http://gawker.com/5725466/the-desperate-campaign-to-discredit-jane-mayer?skyline=true&s=i

She really is very good, does great indepth and unflinching. Few in her similar league, like Andy Worthington and Jeremy Scahill. (Scahill has also sometimes experienced a lot of past pressure and intimidation of a different kind, I think I've read from him...)

not to publish the story about special forces working illegally in Pakistan. I remember that.

These people think we're in the way. They think they own everything AND everyone.

and LOVE the reception that D Koch received at the ABT's "Nutcracker".

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kert-davies/david-koch-booed-at-ny-ch_b_804648.html

High time to shun these pirates.