UNITED
NATIONS, September
3 -- Shifting
today to the
lobbying firm
Mercury from
the State
Department,
which he
represented in
Bahrain from
2007 to 2011,
Adam Ereli in
the spirit of
transparency announced
his pay-day on
Twitter.
He linked to
his biography
on Mercury's
web site noted
"as Ambassador
to Bahrain
from
2007-2011,
Ambassador
Ereli tripled
U.S. foreign
direct
investment,
including
significant
joint-venture
partnerships
with such
industry
leaders as
Occidental
Petroleum and
Thomson-Reuters."
Mercury,
meanwhile,
works and
spies for
Wal-Mart.
Ah, the
revolving
door.
In the days before
he passed
through the revolving
door, Ereli
tweeted the
speeches of
John Kerry,
and "analysis"
from State
Department run
Voice of
America, on whose
Broadcasting
Board of
Governors John
Kerry serves.
Previously,
both US
Ambassador
Susan Rice and
UK Ambassador
to Jordan
Peter Millett
have expressed
disappointment
at the lack of
agreement in
the Security
Council to
visit Jordan,
or to visit
only Jordan.
Russia
is said to
have agreed in
principle to a
visit to
Jordan -- IF
the long
requested
visit to
Palestine also
takes place.
The
visit has been
dangled
several times;
once after it
was pulled
back Inner
City Press
asked
Ambassador
Rice why it
had been an
acceptable
idea in the
morning, then
not some hours
later. She
called it a
package deal
-- that is,
not put a
resolution to
the vote and
"make" the US
veto. And so
it goes.
Inner City
Press
reported,
without
quoting
Millett, on
the UK Embassy
in Jordan partnering
in full with
the ostensibly
independent
Reuters, to
train
Jordanians on
investigative
journalism
(while Reuters
tries
repeatedly to
get the
investigative
Press thrown
out of the
UN).
Now
with Millett tweeting
of the
Security
Council's
failure to
agree to visit
Jordan, and
that the UK
supported the
proposal, it
seems apt to
look back at
Millett's
quote in what
was in essence
a Reuters
press release
on its Thomson
Reuters / Trust.org site.
It
begins,
"Coinciding
with World
Press Freedom
Day, the
British
Embassy in
Amman and
Thomson
Reuters
Foundation are
pleased to
announce the
launch of a
one-year
project."
Then,
"The British
Ambassador
Peter Millett
said: 'A
responsible
and
professional
media is the
backbone of
any democracy,
and
journalists
have a key
role to play
in tackling
corruption. We
are happy to
support this
project
through our
Arab
Partnership
Programme and
to share the
UK’s
experience and
expertise in
this field.'"
Does
this mean that
Reuters
"expertise" is
the UK's? Voice of
America,
for example,
is
run by the US
State
Department.
But what is
the relation
between
Reuters and
the UK
FCO? Or
between Reuters
and the UN?
(Hint: spying.
Story here,
audio
here, document
here.)
Watch this
site.
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