Blackwater VP Advising Mitt Romney on Terrorism

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By Spencer Ackerman - September 19, 2007, 12:54PM

Once he was known as the "Flies On The Eyeballs" guy. Lately, he's been the vice president of controversial private security company Blackwater. Now, Cofer Black has a new position: top counterterrorism adviser to Massachusetts Republican Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.

The one-time chief of the CIA's Counterterrorist Center got his flamboyant nickname after delivering a famous post-9/11 briefing to President Bush about the CIA's plans to destroy al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. ("They'll have flies on their eyeballs" when CIA is done with them, Black is reported to have said.) But that wasn't Black's most famous utterance. In September 2002, in his first-ever public testimony before a joint Congressional inquiry into 9/11, Black -- by then the head of the State Department's counterterrorism shop -- acknowledged that in terms of the CIA's "operational flexibility," after 9/11, "the gloves come off." In retrospect, it's considered the first public reference to the agency's detention, rendition and interrogation policies.

Black left government in 2005 to join Blackwater, whose activities in Iraq have drawn both the ire of the Iraqi government and the opprobrium of House Oversight Committee chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA). But that hasn't disqualified Black from advising Romney's campaign.

Last week, the former Massachusetts governor proudly announced he had brought Black on board ... http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004234.php

[tekisui]

1. Romney, cult follower, and his facsist thug mercenary buddy.nice.

[Metta]

2. Like attracts like.

Too bad their in the public domain though. It's a sorry time for America with people like this who have no heart for anyone other than their own and who betray their human incarnation by their actions.

[Pesky_Hound]

3. Romney has gay hair

I am already tired of Mitt the flipper Romney. I wish the media would take him on over his hair, honestly his is as "bad" as Edwards. I bet he spends as much money and effort on his hair, but no one calls him gay. Phony balonies, I suspect he is a Haggard type. Sorry, this subject makes me incoherent.