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Reader comment on item: IPT Exclusive: Qatar's Insidious Influence on the Brookings Institution

All it takes to bribe officials. KEY: Get them dependent on your funds for a few years, and then control what they say publicly, even if they don't believe their own rhetoric. The U.S. has sold out already, it'll just take a decade or two for the average citizen to realize what our political pool has done behind the scenes, and feel the effects of it in our increasing lack of human rights.

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