Tracing The Cash

This Saturday, the Trib published another one of Craig Smith's interviews with famous conservatives who have unnamed ties to Scaife Foundation money.

This time it's Richard Perle.

This is how Smith describes Perle:

Richard Perle is a political adviser and lobbyist who served as an assistant secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration. He worked on the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee from 1987 to 2004, serving as its chairman from 2001 to 2003.

Which is accurate, but incomplete. Some of his other affiliations:

• The American Enterprise Institute, Resident Fellow ($8.361 million in Scaife Foundation money)
• Hudson Institute, Board of Trustees, 2008 ($3.85 million in Scaife Foundation money)
• Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Board of Advisors ($600 thousand in Scaife Money from 2010, 2009, 2008 alone)

Interesting, isn't it, how he's attached to some major conservative think tanks that have received some major Scaife money and when Scaife's paper interviews him, there's no mention of any of it.

Happy Monday, Pittsburgh!