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it seems pretty clear that the cnp is being framed in host's posts about it as an extension of the abramoff affair(s) and so would logically fall within a congressional investigative purview. but it also seems to me that at the same time as this line of access/thinking COULD prompt an investigation, it is not obvious that this line would go as far as i think should be gone to expose and/or disrupt this organization. if it turns out that it in fact does the sort of things that it appears to do---and this appearance is a simple function of assembling the fragmentary information available in the thread and via simple searches into something of an image and interpreting it.
i am curious to know more about its actual activities.
were i doing a research project on the cnp, i would perhaps use the abramoff connection as a hook to sell the book, but would not gear the project itself around it a priori, simply because in doing that you commit yourself to centering your analysis in a particular way before you have determined the utility of it--marketing purposes aside, of course.
as a side note: the proliferation of shadow organizations, pseudo-organizations, front organizations etc. on the part of the american right curiously enough links it tactically to old communist party activities. there is a strange migration pattern of stalinist style tactics into retro-land, from the photographing of protestors and assembly of a database identifying/tracking them to the pathologization of all types of "deviant" behaviour in children and treating them with drugs.
kurt vonnegut wrote once: careful who you pretend to be
i guess one could add: wittingly or not....
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