[General Wesley Clark worked as lobbyist]
Excerpt from Bill Moyer's interview with Chuck Lewis:
MOYERS: "You report that when General Wesley Clark retired from the military, he earned
over $800,000 lobbying former pals and peers for airline and homeland security contracts
and that he didn't tell us that when he appeared on CNN as a commentator on the war on
terrorism. Why would a man do that, thinking he's going to run for President? Because
that's bound to be harmful when it is ultimately disclosed?
LEWIS: Well, that's sort of what I thought. It's the first time I know of a major Presidential
candidate running who's also currently a lobbyist. When he announced, September 17th,
he was still registered in Washington as a lobbyist. "
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" LEWIS: Well, we're getting a new phenomenon now, the new shamelessness where people
don't care any more. It used to be that a lobbyist ran, people would laugh him out of the
room, and it would be unacceptable. Now you have a guy who just got elected Governor of
Mississippi and we have a Presidential candidate who not only was a lobbyist, but he was a
commentator objectively commentating on the war while he was trying to get homeland
security and defense contracts and meeting with the Vice President among others.
And I'm not sure CNN knew this, by the way. We talked to CNN. We're trying to get
information about what did they know and when did they know it. But ... everyone should
have disclosed that. No question."
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COMPLETE INTERVIEW BETWEEN MOYERS AND LEWIS ON SI:
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