The New York Times added an editor’s note on 17 September 2014 stating that the op-ed did not disclose that she had been an adviser to Azerbaijan’s state-run oil company and that her contributor contract required disclosure of actual or potential conflicts of interest
Brenda Shaffer, whoever she is, is clearly an idiot.
Lol her wikipedia article lists a history of corruption from oil companies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Shaffer
and there’s like 3 more cases of that…