Meet the Attack Lads - Swift Boat Veterans For Truth

Fri Dec. 21, 2007 12:00 AM PST

Instructions: Click on the images below to watch the ads and meet the attack lads. Red links will take you to an appendix with more information.




Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (2004): Smear campaign claiming John Kerry lied about his service in Vietnam. FEC fined the group $299,500 for violating election laws.

consulting by
Chris LaCivita

Decorated ex-Marine; headed National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) during phone-jamming scandal. Took over as president of Progress for America after Tony Feather stepped down to work for Bush/Cheney '04.

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has worked for:
DCI Group, an offshoot of Feather Larson Synhorst that Edmund Matricardi III and James Tobin have also worked for
consults for:
Mercury Public Affairs, which Terry Nelson and Tim Griffin currently work for
chris lacivita was linked to:
Phone jamming (2002)




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