Radio Interview – KZYX & Z, 90.7, 91.5, Mendocino County Public Radio
Grant Smith: “When we look at the tax filings of PNAC, what we notice is that although it is broadly chartered as a non-profit to discuss policy and put forward ideas through publications, the entity itself published almost no information throughout its most active period, and was essentially a front group for what we believe, was research and analysis which was sold through the Weekly Standard, the Bill Kristol organ of policy for the entire neoconservative galaxy here in Washington, DC. When we make allegations of tax fraud, all we have to do in PNAC’s case is reveal that less than 1% of the revenue that they received from wealthy donors was actually dedicated to the core cause of the nonprofit, while most of the people on the payroll were actually selling their content through a “for profit” magazine. This is probably one of the most technical and smallest charges we make in the book, “Deadly Dogma”, but it’s relevant. When you start peeling away the layers of some of these major policy papers and looking at the major actors, you begin to see the illegal activity and unindicted crimes that should receive more prosecutorial attention.”
Jeffrey Blankfort: “The way you describe it, with solid evidence, makes it look like a new Mafia. And that they really, not only pay no attention to international law, but they see US law as something they can skip, eliminate, and not pay any attention to…You list espionage, conspiracy, wire fraud, military contract fraud, extortion, private correspondence with a foreign government, false tax returns, bribery of public officials. It is all in there, and yet, you don’t see this in the mainstream press… “