Talk:Public Interest Watch

Levin flagged the move by the U.S. Department of Justice to sue Greenpeace for the April 2002 boarding of a cargo ship approaching Miami that was laden with timber from the Brazilian rainforests. Without skipping a beat, Levin conflated Greenpeace’s peaceful protest with ecoterrorism which, he argued, justified an IRS crackdown. "Prosecuting ecoterrorists has proved difficult; they have a "cell" structure and lack centralized leaderships or membership rosters. But this is precisely why it is critically important that the IRS does its part to immobilize ecoterror groups by investigating how moneys flow through tax-exempt organizations to affiliates," he wrote. - one full paragraph of whining about Levin remains in the article, this second one removed, again let's stick to PIW

Bandow also complained that PIW's claims only prompted a dozen stories but found some soalce in the conservative media. "The only thorough rendering was written by tireless columnist Deroy Murdock at National Review Online," he wrote. As with most of the other media coverage, Murdock's column largely rehashed PIW's claims, took PIW's claim to be a legitimate non-profit group at face value and relegated Greenpeace's comments to the bottom of the story. - whining and counter whining, let's stick to PIW

It seems that this page existed, but it disappeared (?).

PIW is a hot subject now, see articles in Washingtonpost and elsewhere about PIW's revelations. - search for "public interest watch" including the quotes. --Lumidek 12:23, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)

19 March 2006 - It is a very basic point that Greenpeace has greater disclosure requirements than PIW because of it's priveledged IRS status - Greenpeace 501c3 is mooching off the taxpayer, PIW 501c4 is not - and so I request that in History section, graph 6, that phrase be added. This point is noted much further down in the article, but it should be up top as well, each time the demand by Greenpeace is made the REASON for my response should be included. - Mike Hardiman, former E.D. of PIW