Asbestos. Another boondoogle for attorneys.
I have no doubt that if you sit over a grinding wheel cutting up asbestos all day then it is bad for your health and you could get sick.
At the same time it is ludicrous to tear asbestos tiles or boiler wrapping out of buildings across the country. The amount of exposure to the asbestos is almost zero.
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I guess if growing up on a diet of lead paint chips was good enough for you, friable asbestos (like the stuff installed in our basement in 1940 that began crumbling into our air and from there into our lungs after a mere four decades of inattention) is good enough for the rest of us. If CPD is so popular, there must be something good about it, right?
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Secrets under secrets. Nothing rings true in this story. Who would hire K2 to do this operation, and where did the money come from (Kusto and C.C.I. sound like very weak cover operations)? Why would activists criticize Moore as if that were the end of the story, instead of figuring out what was behind his operation? What is Moore holding back, that made his partner feel they were in serious danger? Who stood to benefit from keeping tabs on anti-asbestos activists? Is this the state of spycraft these days? How much money needs to be at stake for a company to get into such a project? Who within a 'trade group' gets tasked with seeing to details? Was there an executive board decision? And what are the legality issues? Did K2 report their profits to the IRS?
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What has to happen to you as a child to grow up to become a creep willing to poison people to make a buck?
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He can definitely be played by Jeremy Irons in the inevitable film.
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K2 basically used to advertise facebook hacking on their site. They had a section on social media monitorinv that ended eoth "K2 will monitor target's social media feeds and take more action if required."
I'd check that out Barry. Far from only lacking ethics, K2 seems to be a criminal organization
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Not quite but sometimes only a breath away. There are many legal loopholes for this type of work, especially in our Patriot Act era, which both the govt and private sector can exploit to their hearts' content.
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I'm surprised he's still alive.
That said, there are probably a gazillion spies and double agents all over the place.
For all you activists out there who are broke... get smart... become double agents... serve your cause... get paid for a while by the very oligarchs you hate... help the economy... then expose them...
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Since the story is told from Mr. Moore's perspective, we feel a little sympathy for him and tend to believe him a little bit. There should have been more information from the side of the activists who are the real heroes and how they feel about this. I suspect they were better off without this person and his clandestine activities. Now they have to really be less trusting of genuinely interested people.
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Very good point, this is more entertainment than journalism. I'd expect credible journalists to be more critical given that this sort if activity degrades the credibility of the trade.
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Welcome to 2018, where the corporate spies are as clever and pervasive as the government spies... or, are they the same thing?
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