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A memo titled “The Echo Chamber” that circulated in the White House in early 2017 outlined suspicions about Obama-era officials launching “coordinated attacks” against the administration from the private sector and media, according to The New Yorker. The memo reportedly claims the “communications infrastructure” the Obama administration used to “sell Obamacare and the Iran Deal to the public” had become “resistance” actors outside the government seeking to “undermine President Trump’s foreign policy.” Ex-Obama official Ben Rhodes was the “brain behind this operation,” according to the memo, and former Hillary Clinton foreign policy adviser Jake Sullivan was someone “likely” in a leadership position. The memo also lists “likely operations officers” including Biden adviser Colin Kahl, former Rhodes deputy Ned Price, and former speechwriter Jon Favreau. The memo alleges that members of the “Echo Chamber” met regularly to coordinate “the daily/weekly battle rhythm” in a “War Room,” planted stories in the media, and used social media to spread those stories. The magazine notes that many of the points made in the memo are similar to those in internal documents of the Israeli private-intelligence firm Black Cube. Rhodes and Kahl both denied any coordinated network, meetings, or structure. In a statement, Rhodes said the memo was “a bizarre effort to validate ‘deep state’ conspiracy theories.”