Let’s take Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) for example. They’re not what they purport to be. They’re funded by the government in many substantive ways, through government grants, or the more clever way is to give corporation “A” a huge contract, who then, understanding how Washington works better than any average citizen, donate some of that huge payout to four or five NGOs that work to support and illuminate issues or activities that benefit the four or five key members of the committee that awarded the contract. They might do it beforehand, to secure the votes, but that risks charges of bribery or coercion. To do it afterward makes no sense to those who have not been down that road a time or two and understand the machinations. Sure, they could cheat those on the deciding committee, but that would be the last contract they ever saw.
