He put the anonymous video source in touch with the Mother Jones reporter and then butted out, knowing he was onto something. Credited as a "research assistant" on the story is James Carter IV, the grandson of former President Jimmy Carter, who has been toiling online as an opposition researcher and is "currently looking for work," according to his Twitter bio.
– Mother Jones has more from the Mitt Romney fundraiser that yielded yesterday's off-the-cuff footage. This time, Romney is discussing foreign policy, particularly his feeling that "there's just no way" to establish peace between Israel and Palestine. The Palestinians, he says in the tape, have "no interest whatsoever in establishing peace, and ... the pathway to peace is almost unthinkable to accomplish." How to address the problem? "We kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately, somehow, something will happen and resolve it." Romney did however mention that an unnamed former US secretary of state had told him there was "a prospect for a settlement" following elections in Palestine. In the video, the GOP candidate also discusses Iran's nuclear program, noting that if he were "a crazed fanatic," he'd take "fissile material" to a US city and threaten a "dirty bomb" attack. A dirty bomb, however, doesn't need such material, writer David Corn notes. Meanwhile, New York observes that these videos were dug up by none other than James Carter IV, grandson of one Jimmy Carter, who's currently unemployed and doing opposition research "for fun."