<story><title>Dirty Secrets of a Smear Campaign</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/03/the-dirty-secrets-of-a-smear-campaign</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AlbertCory</author><text>&amp;gt; When the officer left the room for a few minutes, Nada found himself alone with the case file. Desperate for answers, he riffled through it. The officer had written notes dismissing him as paranoid, Nada told me. (The local police and prosecutor declined to comment.) But the police had also obtained copies of requests for records about Lord Energy and a local mosque. Both had been filed by a Geneva-based private intelligence firm, Alp Services.&lt;p&gt;What an amazing stroke of luck! They left the room and &amp;quot;forgot&amp;quot; to bring the case file with them. I hope he thanked them afterwards.</text></comment>
<story><title>Dirty Secrets of a Smear Campaign</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/03/the-dirty-secrets-of-a-smear-campaign</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kodah</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m all for seeing more justice around smear campaigns, however there&amp;#x27;s a long way to go. This is why I maintain a hefty chunk of skepticism around things that seem just a bit too coincidental and lack concrete, direct evidence. As the saying goes, a lie travels around the world in the time that the truth laces up it&amp;#x27;s boots.</text></comment>