Fun fact: Look at a map of the Strait of Hormuz. Pam Bondi, Trump-dumped yesterday as US Attorney General, was a highly paid lobbyist for Qatar and Kuwait, not to mention Geo Group, the nation’s top operator of immigrant detention centers (I think we used to call them “prisons”), the cruelty profiteer I exposed years ago in an investigation for The Guardian titled, “Free Market In Human Misery.“
Now that Trump has released Bondi into the wild, she can be subpoenaed to explain her lucrative connections and Trump’s decision, with the bombing of Iran, to Make Qatar Great Again. The curse of my profession, the dying breed of investigative journalists, is that I can’t help but follow the money. And it’s ALWAYS the money.
Greg Palast (Rolling Stone, Guardian, BBC) is the author of The New York Times bestsellers, Armed Madhouse, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits and the book and documentary, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
His latest film is All Washed Away: The Untold Story of the Drowning of New Orleans and Texas. Palast is currently working on a new documentary Long Knife, exposing the Koch Brothers' theft of Osage oil, to be released in 2025.
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