Exclusive Audio: Inside the Koch Brothers' Secret Seminar

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http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/exclusive-audio-koch-brothers-seminar-tapes

A close-up view of the oil billionaires' dark-money fundraiser and 2012 strategy session.

—By Brad Friedman

Tue Sep. 6, 2011 3:00 AM PDT

Don't miss Gavin Aronsen's breakdown of the Kochs' million-dollar donor club.

Don't forget to check out Part 2 of this report, on the GOP superstar who rocked the Koch seminar crowd.

"We have Saddam Hussein," declared billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, apparently referring to President Barack Obama as he welcomed hundreds of wealthy guests to the latest of the secret fundraising and strategy seminars he and his brother host twice a year. The 2012 elections, he warned, will be "the mother of all wars."

Charles Koch would probably not publicly compare the president of the United States to a murderous dictator. (As a general rule, he and his brother don't do much politicking or speechifying in public at all.) But Mother Jones has obtained exclusive audio recordings from the Koch seminar, a private event that took place in June at a resort near Vail, Colorado.