interests in azerbaijan, iraq, south sudan, beyond mark, india, moldova, the communist government of vietnam, among others. according to our sources they were unofficially lobbying for the sultan of brunei, and autocrat accused of human rights abuses. in each case the podesta group made the case for those countries in front of american members of congress and their staffs. which members did they talk to? what did they get in return? we don t know. because as we said, congress won t tell us. they don t have to. they make the laws. we do know the scale of foreign lobbying in washington is breathtaking. in 2013, that the last year for which we have numbers, the top ten highest spending countries at the top 10 million was spent by live washington, d.c. around the world, foreign interests know the fastest to wy to get things done is to pay for it, and boy did they pay for it. just count in russia and other post-soviet states, at least 440