Beware of the Saudi lobbyists. They will be ready to defend MBS
From 2016
Top Lobbyist Slow To Disclose Relationship With Saudi Arabia
In September 2015, Republican political operative and lobbyist Ed Rogers slammed President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran in a Washington Post column. The headline blared: “Jimmy Carter was a better dealmaker than Obama.” A week later, Rogers criticized the president again, writing that the deal contained "jaw-dropping, inconceivable accommodations to Iran.”
Neither of those columns — nor a subsequent piece Rogers wrote in March — mentioned that his firm, BGR Government Affairs, had signed an agreement to handle “public relations and media management” for Saudi Arabia, a staunch opponent of the Iran nuclear deal. Department of Justice files do not show any record that BGR had disclosed the relationship to the U.S. government yet, either.
Rogers personally signed the contract between his firm and the Center for Studies and Media Affairs at the Saudi Royal Court in August 2015, according to a MapLight review of the Justice Department’s database of lobbying records. That database shows that BGR didn’t register to represent Saudi Arabia until March 2016, after Rogers’ articles were published — and well after he agreed to work for the country.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna584156
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