Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World

25. Lowenstein, “The American PR Firm Helping Saudi Arabia.”

26. Aziz El Yaakoubi, “Saudi Woman Gets 45-Year Prison Term for Social Media Posts, Rights Group Says,” Reuters, August 30, 2022.

27. Marcus Baram, “How Saudi Arabia Restored Its U.S. Influence Machine After the Khashoggi Murder,” Foreign Policy, January 27, 2021.

28. Lowenstein, “The American PR Firm Helping Saudi Arabia.”

29. Ibid.

30. Fuchs, “The Daily Show Meets Riyadh!”

31. In May 2022, Edelman CEO Richard Edelman wrote that he was “more convinced than ever about the global rift between democracy and autocracy.” A few days later, the company signed its new deal with Saudi Arabia. It’s unclear how Edelman views its own role in this rift between democracy and autocracy. See Richard Edelman, “Davos Mid-Year,” June 2, 2022, https://www.edelman.com/insights/davos-mid-year-6-am, and Lowenstein, “The American PR Firm Helping Saudi Arabia.”

32. Lee, Mr. Lee’s Publicity Book.

33. Ibid.

AFTERWORD

1. Bob Lee, “They Came for the Gold and Stayed for the Grass,” Rangelands, October 1996, https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/rangelands/article/viewFile/11303/10576.

2. Peter Duffy, “The Congressman Who Spied for Russia,” Politico, October 6, 2014.

3. Casey Michel, “We’ve Never Seen Anything Like the Menendez Indictment,” The Atlantic, October 26, 2023.

4. Nina Burleigh, “Nadine and Bob Menendez’s Flashy, Allegedly Corrupt, Romance,” New York Magazine, October 31, 2023.

5. Ben Penn, “Menendez Indicted as Foreign Agent After Thwarting Related Bill,” Bloomberg Law, October 13, 2023.

6. Alexander Hamilton, “Federalist No. 21: Other Defects of the Present Confederation” (1787).