TPMMuckraker Iraq: November 2009
Oil Business
CREW Calls On State Dept. To Probe Galbraith Over Kurdish Oil Dealings
Justin Elliott | November 19, 2009, 6:30PM
Peter Galbraith
A good government group is calling on the State Department to investigate the role of former ambassador Peter Galbraith in drafting Iraq's constitution in 2005 while he held a lucrative stake in a Kurdish oil field.
The letter from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington to the State Dept. Inspector General asks whether State approved Galbraith's activities, and cites a recent New York Times exposé that built off work of the Norwegian newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (12) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (2)Topics: Iraq, Iraq War, Oil Business, Peter Galbraith
Dick Cheney
Did Cheney Deceive FBI On Instructions To Libby?
Zachary Roth | November 2, 2009, 5:33PM
Former Vice President Dick Cheney
Most reactions to the release of Dick Cheney's 2004 interview with FBI investigators on the Valerie Plame affair have focused on the numerous instances in which the then-vice president claimed a faulty memory about events that had occurred less than a year before.
But did Cheney at one point all but lie under oath about whether he directed Lewis Libby to give Judith Miller information from a government report on Saddam's alleged efforts to procure uranium from Africa?
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (9) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (3)Topics: CIA, Dick Cheney, Iraq, Judy Miller, Scooter Libby, Valerie Plame
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