[EL] The origins of [undisclosed spending that affects elections in some way, shape or form]?

[Steve Klein]

Indeed, but "The FEC responded by gutting a disclosure provision from the McCain-Feingold law that required groups to disclose their donors when reporting independent spending" doesn't  narrow it down for me, considering electioneering communications never--even in BCRA sans any regulatory interpretation--translated to PAC status.

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> On Nov 3, 2015, at 8:21 PM, Paul Blumenthal <paulblumenthal at huffingtonpost.com> wrote:
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> The article goes further than that sentence.
> 
>> On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Stephen Klein <stephen.klein.esq at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Paul Blumenthal writes:
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>> "Further, corporations and unions can spend undisclosed 'dark money' on elections through nonprofit corporations, which are not subject to campaign finance disclosure laws due to a prior Supreme Court ruling and a Federal Election Commission rule change in 2007 that eliminated a key reporting requirement."
>> 
>> I assume, despite the evolving definitions of disclosure and undisclosed money that in some way, shape or form affects an election ("dark money"), he's referring to Buckley v.  Valeo as said "prior Supreme Court ruling" (I suppose listing the name or the more ominous "1976" that accompanies the ruling's citation might be too much for dear readers), but what 2007 rulemaking is at issue and how, exactly, did it affect Buckley's precedent? 
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>>> On Nov 3, 2015, at 5:46 PM, Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> “Anthony Kennedy’s Citizens United Disclosure Salve ‘Not Working'”
>>> Posted on November 3, 2015 8:08 am by Rick Hasen
>>> Paul Blumenthal for HuffPo.
>>> 
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