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The Volokh Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Ruth Wedgwood’s new column at Forbes.com takes up the uncomfortable question of Peter Galbraith and his financial dealings with regard to Kurdish autonomy, oilfields, and Galbraith’s consulting deal with a Norwegian company that could conceivably pay him somewhere up to $100 million. That discussion is very important and fraught with issues — Galbraith has not been [...]
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Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
RUTH WEDGWOOD: Peter Galbraith’s $100 Million Oil Patch: A glimpse at globe-trotting diplomats and conflicting interests. Galbraith’s brother James plays defense in the comments.
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LaurenceJarvikOnline (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Media silence regarding allegations concerning former US Ambassador Peter Galbraith's "sleaze factor" has been deafening, in the wake of the New York Times' front-page expose. Very little follow-up, until this item in TPM Muckracker: 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...
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Thought Mesh (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Just One Minute notes a bit of a miss by Old Media — The NY Times front-pages a mini-debacle - Peter Galbraith, adviser to John Kerry and Joe Biden, has been getting rich off the advice he has been giving the Kurds […] If this had been an advisor to Dick Cheney, libs would be leaping from tall buildings
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Humint Events Online (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Item A-- a nice little war racket in Afghanistan; paying the enemy to keep the war going Item B-- Iraq is turning from a brutal war zone into a brutal police state-- the fruit of our munificent act of democratic nation-building Item C-- the disgusting case of Peter Galbraith: war cheerleader turning into war profiteer Item D-- under Obama: Guantanamo worse, flagrant war crimes still un-prosecuted,...
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LaurenceJarvikOnline (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
From an editorial headlined "Corruption Erodes Trust": Then there is the apparent self-dealing of Peter Galbraith, a former American ambassador and the son of legendary economist John Kenneth Galbraith. He appears to have secured rights to a share of the oil wealth of Kurdistan in the northern region of Iraq. The conflict of interest arises because he had been an adviser to the Kurdish government...
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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Thursday’s off-lead story by James Glanz and Walter Gibbs is on recent revelations that Peter Galbraith, an “unpaid adviser to the Kurds” who has influenced Democratic policymakers like former senator (now Vice President) Joe Biden and Sen. John Kerry, stands to make millions from his closeness to the Kurds and a Norwegian oil company. Given the typical Times sympathies for anti-war...
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Balloon Juice (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
I’m glad William Jefferson will go to jail, but I wish Peter W. Galbraith were in there too. Greenwald: Galbraith was one of the most vocal Democratic supporters of the attack on Iraq, having signed a March 19, 2003 public letter (.pdf)—along with the standard cast of neocon war-lovers such as Bill Kristol, Max Boot, [...]
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Mike the Mad Biologist (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
How many lives is a $100 million oil lease worth? That's the question someone needs to ask Ambassador Peter Galbraith. Peter Galbraith was a 'liberal' hawk who advocated the invasion of Iraq, and then argued that the U.S. should maintain a strong presence in Iraq. During the Bush Administration, he was an advocate for and architect of Iraq's federalist system that ceded significant autonomy to the...
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The Torch (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Something on Afstan earlier from the once-esteemed Mr Galbraith is at the end of this post . Now, talk about a conflict of interest (a "Bouquet" from Norman Spector ): Editor's Note On Thursday, a news article in The Times reported on the ties between Peter W. Galbraith, a former United States ambassador, and a Norwegian oil company that operates in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. According...
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Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
From The TimesNovember 13, 2009Former US envoy Galbraith could earn $100m from Iraqi oil fieldJames Bone in New York4 COMMENTSRECOMMEND? (1)(Toby Talbot/AP)Peter Galbraith is no stranger to controversyA prominent former United Nations official was forced to defend himself yesterday against accusations that he used his influence in Iraq to enrich himself.Peter Galbraith, 58, a former US ambassador
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Peter Galbraith wanted to do well by doing good. He passed himself off as a diplomat who was helping the Kurds to write their constitution...
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LaurenceJarvikOnline (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Is Peter Galbraith a corrupt thug? Even if he's not, he sure sounds like one to me, judging from this account in Vermont's Rutland Herald . The ex-US official appears insensitive to the appearance of corruption, as well as unapologetic about reports in yesterday's front-page NY Times article that he stands to gain over $100 million from oil deals between Kurdistan and a Norwegian oil company: He said...
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Green Mountain Daily - Front Page (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Who is Peter Galbraith? If one accepts verbatim the New York Times latest tirade, one would believe that Galbraith is the money hungry political operative painted in Wednesday's Times and berated further in yesterday's Times' update . My research and my telephone conversation yesterday with former Ambassador Peter Galbraith paint an entirely different picture. Galbraith began publicly advocating for...
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