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Must Reads Thursday
The Note — ... 'middle path'” LINK FOREIGN AFFAIRS: The Washington Post’s Dan Eggen: “Darfur Advocates, Rep. Wolf Intensify Pressure on Obama” LINK The Washington Post’s John Pomfret: “U.S. Hopes to Strengthen Ties With China’s Expanding Military” LINK The Hill's J. Taylor Rushing: “Graham amendment aims to keep 9/11 trials at Guantanamo” LINK The Boston Globe's Farah Stockman: "Former diplomat denies oil dealings influenced views" LINK ECONOMY / FINANCIAL REGULATION / TAXES: The Washington Times' Sean Lengell: ...

The case of Peter Galbraith
Power Line — ... Rubin has flagged another Norwegian story that was lost in the holiday weekend with the news of Obama's Nobel Prize: Peter W. Galbraith, Democratic Party activist and long a champion of Kurdish rights, secretly held stakes in a large Iraqi Kurdish oil field while advising U.S. policy toward the Kurds. Rubin pointed to Reidar Visser's translation of the story from Norway's main business daily Dagens Næringsliv. Today the story reaches the pages of the Boston Globe. The Globe reports: In late 2002, as the Bush administration began ...

Galbraith Admits Ties to Oil Firm DNO -- By: Michael Rubin
The Corner on National Review Online — ... Farah Stockman breaks the story in the Boston Globe, highlighting Ambassador Galbraith's denials that his multimillion-dollar stake influenced his views about U.S. policy. The New York Times, however, somehow managed to ...

Galbraith admits financial stake in Kurdish oil
The Cable — ... "The business interest, including my investment into Kurdistan, was consistent with my political views,'' he told the Boston Globe, "These were all things that I was promoting, and in fact, have brought considerable benefit to the people of Kurdistan, the Kurdistan oil industry, and also to shareholders.'' ...

Former Bush officials ‘are leading a new business push into Iraq.’
Think Progress — ... Recently, former American diplomat Peter Galbraith, who was a key adviser to Iraqi Kurdish politicians, admitted that “he has had business dealings involving oil companies in Iraqi Kurdistan since 2004.” “The business interest, including my investment into Kurdistan, was consistent with my political views,’’ he told the Boston Globe. “These were all things that I was promoting, and in fact, have brought considerable benefit to the people of Kurdistan, the Kurdistan oil industry, and also to shareholders.’’ ...

The Sleazy Advocacy of a Leading 'Liberal Hawk'
Commondreams.org Views — ... "it is both significant and encouraging that a bipartisan group of influential foreign policy thinkers, veterans of both Democratic and Republican administrations , has signed on to a statement of policy on Iraq that makes sense on the war."  Throughout 2002 and 2003, Galbraith appeared in numerous outlets -- including repeatedly on Fox News and with Bill O'Reilly -- presenting himself as a loyal Democrat firmly behind the invasion of Iraq.  In 2002, he was an adviser to Paul Wolfowitz on Kurdistan. After playing a key role in enabling the invasion of Iraq, Galbraith first ...

Steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you ambassador
Balloon Juice — ... and encouraging that a bipartisan group of influential foreign policy thinkers, veterans of both Democratic and Republican administrations, has signed on to a statement of policy on Iraq that makes sense on the war.” Throughout 2002 and 2003, Galbraith appeared in numerous outlets—including repeatedly on Fox News and with Bill O’Reilly—presenting himself as a loyal Democrat firmly behind the invasion of Iraq. In 2002, he was an adviser to Paul Wolfowitz on Kurdistan. ...