Guess which US GWB buddy got the first Iraqi oil pumping contract?

[jazzjunkysue]

Roy Hunt, Dallas, Texas.

Sur prise, sur prise!
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/10/business/worldbusiness/10hunt.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ray_L._Hunt

Hunt was appointed in October 2001 by President George Walker Bush to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.<3>

Hunt joined the Halliburton Company Board in 1998. He is Chairman of the Compensation Committee and member of the Audit and the Management Oversight Committees. He also serves as a member of the boards of directors of PepsiCo, Inc., King Ranch, Inc., Electronic Data Systems Corporation, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and Security Capital Group Incorporated.<4><5> <6>

Hunt currently serves as a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.; the Board of Trustess for the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation

Hunt has served as chairman of the National Petroleum Council in Washington, D.C. (an industry advisory organization for the Secretary of Energy) and served as its chairman from June 1991 to July 1994. In 1980-81 he served as president of the Domestic Petroleum Council <8> He is currently a member of the board of directors of the American Petroleum Institute. He also has served as president of the Dallas Petroleum Club.<9>

http://hevallo.blogspot.com/2007/09/kurdish-oil-goes-to-george-bushs-friend.html

Hunt now serves as Chairman of the Board, President, and CEO of Hunt Consolidated, Inc.; Chairman of the Board and CEO of Hunt Oil Company; and Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President, RRH Corporation. He has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hunt Private Equity Group since its inception in 1990. <2>

[redqueen]

1. Yeah, real shocker there.

Olbermann's been talking about this... disgusting, but hardly surprising.

[acmavm]

2. Haven't you seen the 50 threads about this already?

edit: I don't mean today, but for the last week.

The criminal BFEE is alive and well.

[jazzjunkysue]

4. Sorry-Been off the grid. n/t.

[BridgeTheGap]

3. Member of the oversight committee?

With this bunch, that basically means making sure they don't get caught!