Campaign Extra!: Oil, politics, and the CIA

Election 2004

Oil, politics, and the CIA

One of the issues that's been lost in the blur of a fall political campaign has been the politicizing of the CIA under its new chief, ex-GOP congressman Porter Goss. Today, the Washington Post's Walter Pincus -- one of the best in the business -- has a scoop about Michael Kostiw, a top aide on Goss' committee staff who's been named executive director, the No. 3 post, at the spy agency. Kostiw, a former CIA agent, is to be sworn in tomorrow.

Pincus' scoop is that Kostiw apparently resigned under pressure from the CIA more than 20 years ago. The odd reason: an allegation of shoplifting that Pincus isn't able to fully explain. But Campaign Extra! thinks there's more serious reasons to be alarmed about the selection of Kostiw.

For one thing, when he left the CIA, for whatever reason, he ended up as a vice president for international affairs and a major lobbyist for ChevronTexaco, the oil GIANT. In a sense, it doesn't matter so much how close Kostiw has remained to the oil lobby, but the appearance of such a tie is the last thing this country needs when most of the world believes Iraq was a big oil grab.

But wait, there's more! He also "served as vice chairman of the International Republican Institute, a group made up of GOP foreign policy experts that works with the National Endowment for Democracy on political and economic development projects."

Does that group sound familiar? The IRI are the people who did the now infamous "right track-wrong track" poll of Iraqis this summer that George W. Bush cited at his recent joint press conference with Ayad Allawi. That's the poll in which 51 percent of Iraqis thought the nation was on "the right track" -- a finding that really hasn't been duplicated in any other survey.

So, let's review: We have a former oil lobbyist linked to a group that did a controversial poll seeking to prove that Iraq is on the right track -- who's now going to be a key player in providing "objective" intelligence about the Middle East. Oh, and he may be a shoplifter, too.

Is it too late to call this thing off?

Update: NOPE!!!

Posted on October 3, 2004 04:15 PM

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