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For the love of God, do not elect Hilary Clinton next election. (1 Viewer)
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SaintsInDome2006
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I just moved this out of the GOP thread because it's really about Hillary.SaintsInDome2006 said:
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Baloney Sandwich
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long but interesting piece on the revolving door between the oil and gas lobby and Hillary's people at State.
Exclusive: Hillary Clinton State Department Emails, Mexico Energy Reform and the Revolving Doorhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-horn/exclusive-hillary-clinton_b_7963596.html
Emails released on July 31 by the U.S. State Department reveal more about the origins of energy reform efforts in Mexico. The State Department released them as part of the once-a-month rolling release schedule for emails generated by former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, now a Democratic presidential candidate.
Originally stored on a private server, with Clinton and her closest advisors using the server and private accounts, the emails confirm Clinton's State Department helped to break state-owned company Pemex's (Petroleos Mexicanos) oil and gas industry monopoly in Mexico, opening up the country to international oil and gas companies. And two of the Coordinators helping to make it happen, both of whom worked for Clinton, now work in the private sector and stand to gain financially from the energy reforms they helped create.
The appearance of the emails also offers a chance to tell the deeper story of the role the Clinton-led State Department and other powerful actors played in opening up Mexico for international business in the oil and gas sphere. That story begins with a trio.
The Trio David Goldwyn, who was the first International Energy Coordinator named by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2009, sits at the center of the story. As revealed by DeSmog, the State Department redacted the entire job description document for the Coordinator role.
Goldwyn now runs an oil and gas industry consulting firm called Goldwyn Global Strategies, works of counsel as an industry attorney at the law firm Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, and works as a fellow at the industry-funded think tanks Atlantic Counciland Brookings Institution.
The emails show that, on at least one instance, Goldwyn also used his private "dgoldwyn@goldwyn.org" (Goldwyn Global Strategies) email address for State Department business.
It remains unclear if he used his private or State Department email address on other instances, as only his name appears on the other emails. But Cheryl Mills, a top aide to Secretary Clinton at the time, initiated the email that he responded to on his private account.
Image Credit: U.S Department of State
Carlos Pascual, Goldwyn's successor as International Energy Coordinator, whooversaw the creation of the State Department's Bureau of Energy Resources as mandated by the Department's 2010 Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, serves as another key character.
So too does Neil Brown, a former top-level staffer for Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) who now works at the private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR).
Brown now works with former CIA Director David Petraeus at the KKR Global Institute, where he serves as Director of Policy and Research, and formerly served as senior-level staff for the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He also stillserves as a senior advisor for Goldwyn Global Strategies, according to the firm's website.
Energy Dipomacy and Security ActA May 2009 email written by top Clinton advisor Cheryl Mills, in which she shared an early draft of the job description for International Energy Coordinator (redacted in the email), points to the origins of the idea behind the job. That is, it actually came from Lugar and Mills wrote that it would continue to "fulfill the mission outlined by the legislation" he introduced.
Mills was referring to the Energy Diplomacy and Security Act of 2006 and 2007, bills introduced by Lugar and co-sponsored by then-Senators Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Chuck Hagel, among others. Defense Secretary Hagel formerly served as Chairman for the Atlantic Council and sat on the Board for Chevron, one of Atlantic Council's top funders.
That bill called for the creation of the International Energy Coordinator position.
Image Credit: U.S. Government Printing Office
Neither of those bills passed. Instead, the measure was inserted into the broader Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 as Section 931. Lobbying records show Marathon Oil, ExxonMobil and Goldman Sachs all lobbied for both the original bill and the omnibus bill, with scores of other oil and gas companies also lobbying for the latter.
Lugar announced the bill for the first time at a Brookings Institution event in March 2006 at an convening moderated by Carlos Pascual, then Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies for Brookings.
In October 2006, Gregory Manuel — who now works at MNL Partners, a clean energy project development and finance shop focused on China — became the first ever International Energy Coordinator for the Bush Administration State Department. The Manuel announcement occurred the same month as the powerful Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), heavily funded by the oil and gas industry, published a report advocating for the creation of a similar position within the White House's National Security Council.
David Goldwyn, future International Energy Coordinator, sat on the task force (with current Secreatry of Energy Ernest Moniz) that authored the report and called for creation of the job.
Goldwyn also co-wrote a two-page "Additional View" section, which reads "We subscribe to the report’s analysis and recommendations, but the report understates the gravity of the threat that energy dependence poses to U.S. national security...All told, an incremental approach to the challenge—as advocated in this report—will not be adequate."
At her 2009 confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, then-Committee Chair Lugar asked Clinton if she intended to continue funding the position. She confirmed she did, and not long thereafter followed through on the promise — by hiring Goldwyn.
Both Clinton and Goldwyn did not respond to repeated requests for comment for this story.
"Mexico Rising"An October 2009 email written by Mills mentions "engaging with...Mexico" as among Goldwyn's top "energy security priorities." Congressional testimony he delivered in April 2013 confirmed Goldwyn initiated energy reform efforts in Mexico while at the State Department, as did a story published a couple weeks later by Reuters.
A State Department diplomatic cable unearthed by Wikileaks sheds further light on Goldwyn's efforts in Mexico.
"Mexico officials remain extremely sensitive about any public - especially US - comments regarding energy reform and production," reads a February 2010 "scenesetter" cable written by the U.S. Embassy in Mexico for Goldwyn's upcoming trip to Mexico. "We should retain the [u.S. government's] long-standing policy of not commenting publicly on these issues while quietly offering to provide assistance in areas of interest to the [Mexican government]."
At the time that cable was published, Carlos Pascual served as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, a job he would eventually leave to become Goldwyn's successor as International Energy Coordinator. After leaving the State Department, Goldwyn continued that effort "to provide assistance" for energy reform alongside Neil Brown in the private sector.
One of the last things Brown did in the Senate before getting a job with Goldwyn was to co-author a December 21, 2012 U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations reporton the then-proposed and since-passed U.S. Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbon Agreement.
That agreement served as the first step of Mexico's energy reform efforts, which opened up offshore oil in the Gulf of Mexico to international oil and gas companies, and was lobbied for by the likes of ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, the American Petroleum Institute, Independent Petroleum Producers of America and others.
Brown "worked on the [Mexico energy reform] issue...as lead Republican international energy aide in the Senate," according to Reuters and also went on a taxpayer-funded trip to Mexico during his last few months as a Foreign Relations Committee staffer.
Pascual also worked on the Transboundary issue when he was Ambassador, another Wikileaks cable reveals.
"Publicly, the [government of Mexico] will emphasize that the negotiations allow Mexico to defend its natural resources," reads the Pascual-authored cable titled, "Transboundary Reservoirs - A Window of Opportunity." "[M]any Mexicans consider oil a part of the country's DNA. A treaty would address these concerns and avoid any unnecessary irritants between the two countries."
Pascual then stated that, while the government of Mexico would posture one way to the people of Mexico, it intends to act in an entirely different way in terms of the policy it would push.
"[While the government of Mexico] will portray negotiations on trans-boundary reservoirs to the Mexican public as an effort to defend the country's natural resources, the government sees a treaty as an important opportunity for PEMEX to work with IOCs and gain expertise in deepwater drilling," he wrote. "For the first time in decades, the door to the USG's constructive engagement with Mexico on oil has opened a crack. It would be in our interests to take advantage of this opportunity."
Not long after Brown left his Foreign Relations Committee job, Goldwyn and Brown co-authored a report for the Brookings Institution in August 2013, "Time to Implement the U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbons Agreement — Congress: Drop the Poison Pill." The bill would pass months later and be signed into law by President Obama.
They also co-authored a report a year later for the Atlantic Council, "Mexico's Energy Reforms: Ready to Launch." Goldwyn also published a December 2013 Atlantic Council report, "Mexico Rising: Comprehensive Energy Reform At Last?," which came out just one week after Mexico's legislature passed constitutional reforms opening up its oil and gas spigot to international drillers.
Cashing InGoldwyn, Pascual and Brown now stand to gain financially from the Mexico energy reform architecture they helped envision and construct.
Goldwyn
Goldwyn works of-counsel for Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, a firm that helped theEnterprise Product Partners become the first company to get a permit to export processed oil condensate from the U.S. Department of Commerce in June 2014. In a biography appearing at the end of a September 2014 presentation he delivered to theU.S. Energy Information Administration, Sutherland partner Jacob Dweck disclosed he is presently "assisting clients" looking to export crude oil "as part of an exchange or swap."
Doing a "swap" means exporting U.S.-produced crude oil to Mexico and trading it with Mexican-produced oil, serving as a way to wedge open the door on the current ban on U.S. oil exports.
Dweck and his Sutherland colleague Shelley Wong both sat on the Brookings Institution Crude Oil Task Force co-chaired by Goldwyn. All three of them contributed to a September 2014 Brookings report calling for increased exports of U.S.-produced crude oil, which was written in reaction to another report they funded and released simultaneously written by National Economic Research Associates (NERA).
Just months later, Columbia University's Adrián Lajous released a 13-page white paper calling for U.S. crude oil exchanges with Mexico. In the acknowledgements for the paper, he thanked Dweck for "comments and suggestions that helped improve" it.
Pascual
Pascual now sits as a Fellow at an outfit many believe is industry-funded, but which does not disclose its funding on its website: Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy. The Center does, however, disclose it "welcomes support" from corporations. Both officials at Columbia and its spokesperson at BerlinRosin did not respond to repeated requests for comment on funding sent by DeSmog.
Besides Columbia, Pascual also works as Senior Vice President of Global Energy Affairs at IHS Inc., a for-profit consultancy business that provides analysis on behalf of corporate clients.
IHS has a unit devoted to "evaluating future options in Mexico with a scenarios-based approach built on quantitative and qualitative data to help shape a successful upstream entry strategy for Mexico that centers on the client’s specific needs," its website explains. "A variety of foreign companies – ranging from the Majors to Independents to service sector firms – are expressing interest in capitalizing on Mexico’s largely untapped resource potential in six major plays, including: deepwater, offshore gas, shale and marginal PUDs in conventional areas."
The Center on Global Energy Policy has also proven a friendly forum to promote energy reform efforts, which has both published pro-reform reports and also housed panels on the topic. Adrián Lajous, another Fellow at the center, formerly served as CEO for Pemex and wrote his own pro-reform paper in June 2014 bankrolled by none other than Goldman Sachs.
Pascual recently testified in front of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee in support of energy reform efforts in Mexico wearing his IHS Inc. hat, with his placard referring to him as "Ambassador Pascual."
He had previously done the same thing on multiple occasions as head of the State Department's Bureau of Energy Resources when he was officially serving as an Ambassador.
Pascual denied comment for this story. But Jeff Marn, energy and natural resources spokesman for IHS, told DeSmog "We do research on several topics around the world, energy among them. But we don’t have a 'stake' in any development or outcome."
IHS, though, does take huge batches of industry funding for its reports. A case in point: its two recent studies on U.S. oil exports, both of which were funded by companies ranging from ExxonMobil, Chesapeake Energy, ConocoPhillips, Chevron, Halliburton and many other companies.
Brown
KKR, where Brown now works, has already put its feet on the ground to profit from energy reform efforts in Mexico. This may explain why Brown and Petraeus co-wrote a July 2014 opinion piece published by the Houston Chronicle titled, "Mexico's miracle: Political productivity."
In December 2014, Petraeus and colleagues from KKR took a trip to Mexico and expressed excitement over the "promise that the financial community sees in this country."
“Obviously we’re looking very closely at the energy space, upstream and downstream production, the entire gamut of that,” Petraeus told Bloomberg at the time.
His trip to Mexico came just two months after he co-authored a CFR report withRobert Zoellick (former head of the World Bank, now a chairman of international advisors at Goldman Sachs) calling for the "integration" of North America's energy markets.
Just months later, KKR announced the launch of a joint venture with Monterra Energy, a new start-up created in the aftermath of Mexico's energy reforms. KKR will serve as financier for the development of midstream oil and gas assets (like pipelines and related delivery infrastructure) owned by Monterra in Mexico.
Brown and KKR did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
"Integration""Integration" is where the story comes full circle. In March 2009, Lugar introduced legislation that would create a "Western Hemisphere Energy Cooperation Forum," a concept recycled from section six of the initial Energy Diplomacy and Security Act.
That Forum, had the bill passed, would have served to "strengthen integration among countries in the Western Hemisphere through closer cooperation." It was lobbied for by Marathon Oil, one of only 26 companies approved to bid for shallow water oil and gas reserves in Mexico during its recent July auction.
Lugar introduced the concept of the Forum, like the International Energy Coordinator idea, during his 2006 Brookings address moderated by Pascual.
Image Credit: U.S. Department of Energy
Although it never became a piece of congressional legislation, it did become the de facto law of the land as a chapter in the U.S. Department of Energy's recently-releasedQuadrenial Energy Review (QER).
Most recently, Goldwyn, Pascual and Brown all sat on Atlantic Council's Task Force on the U.S. Energy Boom and National Security. That Task Force, co-directed by Godlwyn, released a report pointing to the QER to advocate for "infrastructure and policy integration" with Mexico.
Hillary Clinton recently released her energy and climate plans for her presidential campaign, lauded by some.
But to date, she has not commented on the energy reform efforts in Mexico her State Department helped spearhead, which will usher in more deepwater offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and onshore fracking in Mexico's portion of the Eagle Ford Shale basin. It will also flood the electricity grid with fracked gas emanating from the U.S., a fact proudly proclaimed by Goldwyn and the U.S. Department of Energy.
"[A]s secretary of state, we know that there was quite a revolving door between the oil and gas lobby and her people at State and on her previous campaign staff," Naomi Klein, author of the book "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate," said in a recent appearance on Democracy Now! "And I think there’s real reason for concern about whether or not she would be willing to stand up to the oil and gas lobby on Keystone, on Arctic drilling, [or] on any...other issues."
One thing appears certain: those who laid the groundwork for energy reforms in Mexico have created a perfect climate to profit from the fruits of their labor.
Exclusive: Hillary Clinton State Department Emails, Mexico Energy Reform and the Revolving Doorhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-horn/exclusive-hillary-clinton_b_7963596.html
Emails released on July 31 by the U.S. State Department reveal more about the origins of energy reform efforts in Mexico. The State Department released them as part of the once-a-month rolling release schedule for emails generated by former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, now a Democratic presidential candidate.
Originally stored on a private server, with Clinton and her closest advisors using the server and private accounts, the emails confirm Clinton's State Department helped to break state-owned company Pemex's (Petroleos Mexicanos) oil and gas industry monopoly in Mexico, opening up the country to international oil and gas companies. And two of the Coordinators helping to make it happen, both of whom worked for Clinton, now work in the private sector and stand to gain financially from the energy reforms they helped create.
The appearance of the emails also offers a chance to tell the deeper story of the role the Clinton-led State Department and other powerful actors played in opening up Mexico for international business in the oil and gas sphere. That story begins with a trio.
The Trio David Goldwyn, who was the first International Energy Coordinator named by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2009, sits at the center of the story. As revealed by DeSmog, the State Department redacted the entire job description document for the Coordinator role.
Goldwyn now runs an oil and gas industry consulting firm called Goldwyn Global Strategies, works of counsel as an industry attorney at the law firm Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, and works as a fellow at the industry-funded think tanks Atlantic Counciland Brookings Institution.
The emails show that, on at least one instance, Goldwyn also used his private "dgoldwyn@goldwyn.org" (Goldwyn Global Strategies) email address for State Department business.
It remains unclear if he used his private or State Department email address on other instances, as only his name appears on the other emails. But Cheryl Mills, a top aide to Secretary Clinton at the time, initiated the email that he responded to on his private account.
Image Credit: U.S Department of State
Carlos Pascual, Goldwyn's successor as International Energy Coordinator, whooversaw the creation of the State Department's Bureau of Energy Resources as mandated by the Department's 2010 Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, serves as another key character.
So too does Neil Brown, a former top-level staffer for Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) who now works at the private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR).
Brown now works with former CIA Director David Petraeus at the KKR Global Institute, where he serves as Director of Policy and Research, and formerly served as senior-level staff for the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He also stillserves as a senior advisor for Goldwyn Global Strategies, according to the firm's website.
Energy Dipomacy and Security ActA May 2009 email written by top Clinton advisor Cheryl Mills, in which she shared an early draft of the job description for International Energy Coordinator (redacted in the email), points to the origins of the idea behind the job. That is, it actually came from Lugar and Mills wrote that it would continue to "fulfill the mission outlined by the legislation" he introduced.
Mills was referring to the Energy Diplomacy and Security Act of 2006 and 2007, bills introduced by Lugar and co-sponsored by then-Senators Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Chuck Hagel, among others. Defense Secretary Hagel formerly served as Chairman for the Atlantic Council and sat on the Board for Chevron, one of Atlantic Council's top funders.
That bill called for the creation of the International Energy Coordinator position.
Image Credit: U.S. Government Printing Office
Neither of those bills passed. Instead, the measure was inserted into the broader Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 as Section 931. Lobbying records show Marathon Oil, ExxonMobil and Goldman Sachs all lobbied for both the original bill and the omnibus bill, with scores of other oil and gas companies also lobbying for the latter.
Lugar announced the bill for the first time at a Brookings Institution event in March 2006 at an convening moderated by Carlos Pascual, then Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies for Brookings.
In October 2006, Gregory Manuel — who now works at MNL Partners, a clean energy project development and finance shop focused on China — became the first ever International Energy Coordinator for the Bush Administration State Department. The Manuel announcement occurred the same month as the powerful Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), heavily funded by the oil and gas industry, published a report advocating for the creation of a similar position within the White House's National Security Council.
David Goldwyn, future International Energy Coordinator, sat on the task force (with current Secreatry of Energy Ernest Moniz) that authored the report and called for creation of the job.
Goldwyn also co-wrote a two-page "Additional View" section, which reads "We subscribe to the report’s analysis and recommendations, but the report understates the gravity of the threat that energy dependence poses to U.S. national security...All told, an incremental approach to the challenge—as advocated in this report—will not be adequate."
At her 2009 confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, then-Committee Chair Lugar asked Clinton if she intended to continue funding the position. She confirmed she did, and not long thereafter followed through on the promise — by hiring Goldwyn.
Both Clinton and Goldwyn did not respond to repeated requests for comment for this story.
"Mexico Rising"An October 2009 email written by Mills mentions "engaging with...Mexico" as among Goldwyn's top "energy security priorities." Congressional testimony he delivered in April 2013 confirmed Goldwyn initiated energy reform efforts in Mexico while at the State Department, as did a story published a couple weeks later by Reuters.
A State Department diplomatic cable unearthed by Wikileaks sheds further light on Goldwyn's efforts in Mexico.
"Mexico officials remain extremely sensitive about any public - especially US - comments regarding energy reform and production," reads a February 2010 "scenesetter" cable written by the U.S. Embassy in Mexico for Goldwyn's upcoming trip to Mexico. "We should retain the [u.S. government's] long-standing policy of not commenting publicly on these issues while quietly offering to provide assistance in areas of interest to the [Mexican government]."
At the time that cable was published, Carlos Pascual served as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, a job he would eventually leave to become Goldwyn's successor as International Energy Coordinator. After leaving the State Department, Goldwyn continued that effort "to provide assistance" for energy reform alongside Neil Brown in the private sector.
One of the last things Brown did in the Senate before getting a job with Goldwyn was to co-author a December 21, 2012 U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations reporton the then-proposed and since-passed U.S. Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbon Agreement.
That agreement served as the first step of Mexico's energy reform efforts, which opened up offshore oil in the Gulf of Mexico to international oil and gas companies, and was lobbied for by the likes of ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, the American Petroleum Institute, Independent Petroleum Producers of America and others.
Brown "worked on the [Mexico energy reform] issue...as lead Republican international energy aide in the Senate," according to Reuters and also went on a taxpayer-funded trip to Mexico during his last few months as a Foreign Relations Committee staffer.
Pascual also worked on the Transboundary issue when he was Ambassador, another Wikileaks cable reveals.
"Publicly, the [government of Mexico] will emphasize that the negotiations allow Mexico to defend its natural resources," reads the Pascual-authored cable titled, "Transboundary Reservoirs - A Window of Opportunity." "[M]any Mexicans consider oil a part of the country's DNA. A treaty would address these concerns and avoid any unnecessary irritants between the two countries."
Pascual then stated that, while the government of Mexico would posture one way to the people of Mexico, it intends to act in an entirely different way in terms of the policy it would push.
"[While the government of Mexico] will portray negotiations on trans-boundary reservoirs to the Mexican public as an effort to defend the country's natural resources, the government sees a treaty as an important opportunity for PEMEX to work with IOCs and gain expertise in deepwater drilling," he wrote. "For the first time in decades, the door to the USG's constructive engagement with Mexico on oil has opened a crack. It would be in our interests to take advantage of this opportunity."
Not long after Brown left his Foreign Relations Committee job, Goldwyn and Brown co-authored a report for the Brookings Institution in August 2013, "Time to Implement the U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbons Agreement — Congress: Drop the Poison Pill." The bill would pass months later and be signed into law by President Obama.
They also co-authored a report a year later for the Atlantic Council, "Mexico's Energy Reforms: Ready to Launch." Goldwyn also published a December 2013 Atlantic Council report, "Mexico Rising: Comprehensive Energy Reform At Last?," which came out just one week after Mexico's legislature passed constitutional reforms opening up its oil and gas spigot to international drillers.
Cashing InGoldwyn, Pascual and Brown now stand to gain financially from the Mexico energy reform architecture they helped envision and construct.
Goldwyn
Goldwyn works of-counsel for Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, a firm that helped theEnterprise Product Partners become the first company to get a permit to export processed oil condensate from the U.S. Department of Commerce in June 2014. In a biography appearing at the end of a September 2014 presentation he delivered to theU.S. Energy Information Administration, Sutherland partner Jacob Dweck disclosed he is presently "assisting clients" looking to export crude oil "as part of an exchange or swap."
Doing a "swap" means exporting U.S.-produced crude oil to Mexico and trading it with Mexican-produced oil, serving as a way to wedge open the door on the current ban on U.S. oil exports.
Dweck and his Sutherland colleague Shelley Wong both sat on the Brookings Institution Crude Oil Task Force co-chaired by Goldwyn. All three of them contributed to a September 2014 Brookings report calling for increased exports of U.S.-produced crude oil, which was written in reaction to another report they funded and released simultaneously written by National Economic Research Associates (NERA).
Just months later, Columbia University's Adrián Lajous released a 13-page white paper calling for U.S. crude oil exchanges with Mexico. In the acknowledgements for the paper, he thanked Dweck for "comments and suggestions that helped improve" it.
Pascual
Pascual now sits as a Fellow at an outfit many believe is industry-funded, but which does not disclose its funding on its website: Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy. The Center does, however, disclose it "welcomes support" from corporations. Both officials at Columbia and its spokesperson at BerlinRosin did not respond to repeated requests for comment on funding sent by DeSmog.
Besides Columbia, Pascual also works as Senior Vice President of Global Energy Affairs at IHS Inc., a for-profit consultancy business that provides analysis on behalf of corporate clients.
IHS has a unit devoted to "evaluating future options in Mexico with a scenarios-based approach built on quantitative and qualitative data to help shape a successful upstream entry strategy for Mexico that centers on the client’s specific needs," its website explains. "A variety of foreign companies – ranging from the Majors to Independents to service sector firms – are expressing interest in capitalizing on Mexico’s largely untapped resource potential in six major plays, including: deepwater, offshore gas, shale and marginal PUDs in conventional areas."
The Center on Global Energy Policy has also proven a friendly forum to promote energy reform efforts, which has both published pro-reform reports and also housed panels on the topic. Adrián Lajous, another Fellow at the center, formerly served as CEO for Pemex and wrote his own pro-reform paper in June 2014 bankrolled by none other than Goldman Sachs.
Pascual recently testified in front of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee in support of energy reform efforts in Mexico wearing his IHS Inc. hat, with his placard referring to him as "Ambassador Pascual."
He had previously done the same thing on multiple occasions as head of the State Department's Bureau of Energy Resources when he was officially serving as an Ambassador.
Pascual denied comment for this story. But Jeff Marn, energy and natural resources spokesman for IHS, told DeSmog "We do research on several topics around the world, energy among them. But we don’t have a 'stake' in any development or outcome."
IHS, though, does take huge batches of industry funding for its reports. A case in point: its two recent studies on U.S. oil exports, both of which were funded by companies ranging from ExxonMobil, Chesapeake Energy, ConocoPhillips, Chevron, Halliburton and many other companies.
Brown
KKR, where Brown now works, has already put its feet on the ground to profit from energy reform efforts in Mexico. This may explain why Brown and Petraeus co-wrote a July 2014 opinion piece published by the Houston Chronicle titled, "Mexico's miracle: Political productivity."
In December 2014, Petraeus and colleagues from KKR took a trip to Mexico and expressed excitement over the "promise that the financial community sees in this country."
“Obviously we’re looking very closely at the energy space, upstream and downstream production, the entire gamut of that,” Petraeus told Bloomberg at the time.
His trip to Mexico came just two months after he co-authored a CFR report withRobert Zoellick (former head of the World Bank, now a chairman of international advisors at Goldman Sachs) calling for the "integration" of North America's energy markets.
Just months later, KKR announced the launch of a joint venture with Monterra Energy, a new start-up created in the aftermath of Mexico's energy reforms. KKR will serve as financier for the development of midstream oil and gas assets (like pipelines and related delivery infrastructure) owned by Monterra in Mexico.
Brown and KKR did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
"Integration""Integration" is where the story comes full circle. In March 2009, Lugar introduced legislation that would create a "Western Hemisphere Energy Cooperation Forum," a concept recycled from section six of the initial Energy Diplomacy and Security Act.
That Forum, had the bill passed, would have served to "strengthen integration among countries in the Western Hemisphere through closer cooperation." It was lobbied for by Marathon Oil, one of only 26 companies approved to bid for shallow water oil and gas reserves in Mexico during its recent July auction.
Lugar introduced the concept of the Forum, like the International Energy Coordinator idea, during his 2006 Brookings address moderated by Pascual.
Image Credit: U.S. Department of Energy
Although it never became a piece of congressional legislation, it did become the de facto law of the land as a chapter in the U.S. Department of Energy's recently-releasedQuadrenial Energy Review (QER).
Most recently, Goldwyn, Pascual and Brown all sat on Atlantic Council's Task Force on the U.S. Energy Boom and National Security. That Task Force, co-directed by Godlwyn, released a report pointing to the QER to advocate for "infrastructure and policy integration" with Mexico.
Hillary Clinton recently released her energy and climate plans for her presidential campaign, lauded by some.
But to date, she has not commented on the energy reform efforts in Mexico her State Department helped spearhead, which will usher in more deepwater offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and onshore fracking in Mexico's portion of the Eagle Ford Shale basin. It will also flood the electricity grid with fracked gas emanating from the U.S., a fact proudly proclaimed by Goldwyn and the U.S. Department of Energy.
"[A]s secretary of state, we know that there was quite a revolving door between the oil and gas lobby and her people at State and on her previous campaign staff," Naomi Klein, author of the book "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate," said in a recent appearance on Democracy Now! "And I think there’s real reason for concern about whether or not she would be willing to stand up to the oil and gas lobby on Keystone, on Arctic drilling, [or] on any...other issues."
One thing appears certain: those who laid the groundwork for energy reforms in Mexico have created a perfect climate to profit from the fruits of their labor.
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SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
DeSmog is yet another one of the FOIA plaintiffs who was stonewalled for FIVE years by State and was never told that Hillary had a secret stash of public records.
This is a liberal, environmentalist group and they are also currently seeking Hillary's records on Keystone.
This is a liberal, environmentalist group and they are also currently seeking Hillary's records on Keystone.
SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-swears-i-turned-over-all-my-required-e-mails/2015/08/10/36084f6a-3f8c-11e5-bfe3-ff1d8549bfd2_story.html
Here's Hillary's signed, sworn attestation:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/r/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/08/10/National-Politics/Graphics/HRC%208-10.pdf
http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2015/08/hillary-clinton-email-certification-released-212156.html
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Baloney Sandwich
Footballguy
The Chinese targeted top Obama officials that used private email and were successful:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/china-read-emails-top-us-officials-n406046
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/china-read-emails-top-us-officials-n406046
matuski
Footballguy
I never said that in the least.What's interesting is you keep thinking Hillary is still the best alternative to anyone.When you can't even put up a competitive alternative to the person about to occupy Obama's your spot on your party's "WORST EVER" list - what does that say about you?Says who? YOU?You really can't win with this strategy.
No matter how horrible you try to make out Hillary to be - you demonstrate by definition just how much more horrible the GOP is when they can't do anything to stop her.
But please... by all means, continue.
brother, please.
And you keep taking it personally.. interesting.
I stand by my position that when you look at the parties on paper.. I should be voting republican.
Keep telling me how awful Hillary is, keep providing me nothing as an alternative solution, keep telling me how these emails (seriously?) are going to rock Hillary's world... Keep losing.
I get that out of all of the GOP candidates you don't like ANY of them, but that's due to your political ideology than actually looking at the candidates. Let's not mistake your posts for clear, unbiased analysis.
I said she is a weak Democratic candidate and will win easily. I would think this would be an easy win for the GOP but, are you paying attention to that shizt show?
I have also repeated many times over that on paper my political ideology (your words) would be Red... all they have to do is put someone in contention I can take seriously. Unfortunately the lead dog is another clown, trailed by a few other clowns
Try again?
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SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
- Fwiw it took me a little while to see what was going on here but the long and the short of it the claim, from DeSmog, a liberal environmentalist group that was shocked to learn its FOIA requests had been stiffarmed for years because they did not know that State did not have Hillary's, Mills' or Abedin's emails, pushed Mexico to privatize Pemex and legalize offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
Apparently this was accomplished by bringing in three aides, apparently one of the applications was redacted by State for no reason. They coordinated the privatization and then went into the private market to profit with the firms that invested in the privatization.
Incredibly one of the aides, Goodwyn, was using a private email account for a private corporation even while he was a public employee with State.
I might have botched some of that but that's the gist I think. I know DeSmog is still awaiting records on Keystone.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-02-20/clinton-signs-accord-in-mexico-for-oil-exploration-with-state-owned-pemex
http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/08/07/hillary-clinton-state-department-emails-mexico-energy-reform-revolving-door
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SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
The links are in here somewhere on the public information on Hillary's server setup. When it was first reported in March reporters from tech sites pretty much rifled through everything and explained all the weaknesses up front.
Here's one:
http://gawker.com/how-unsafe-was-hillary-clintons-secret-staff-email-syst-1689393042
- The story about the China hacks deals with public officials using private emails accounts, which for nearly everyone would have been or should have been at worst just partial and hopefully entirely private.
Hillary of course was 100% on her private server for all her work, that's been established.
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Sand
Footballguy
Interesting - on O'Reilly tonight Rand Paul was on and among other things talked about the influence peddling that the Clintons have been involved in. No link yet, as it is on today. I figured he'd bring up the UBS quid pro quo, but instead he delved into the Rosatom uranium deal in which Hillary approved it, the Foundation got 2.35mil, and Bill got 500k for one speech to the bank brokering the deal.
I suspect this is far from the last of these examples we'll see bandied about.
I suspect this is far from the last of these examples we'll see bandied about.
Rand Paul has been on the O'Reilly Factor on consecutive shows when Bill has taken a day off, but, to my knowledge, won't go on his show when he's there.
Anyways, that's just curious to me.....there's a million of these possible connections to Hillary, the foundation and favors, but nothing can be proved. Just like the email system....again, looks shady and possible corruption, but this is the death of a million cuts for her (or so the GOP hopes).
Sand
Footballguy
On the email I believe you're wrong. Just like Petraeus she's in possession of classified information. She hired uncleared people to manage the server holding classified information. She, as a lawyer, Senator, and SoS knew full well the law concerning classification of materials. Any other person would have had to post bail by now.
Sand
Footballguy
If there's one thing we can be absolutely, positively sure of with this administration it's that the DoJ is as corrupt an organization as we've likely ever seen in the federal panoply. No doubt you're correct here.
timschochet
Footballguy
This is the way conspiracy theorists always escape- they KNOW the people they hate are guilty, but nothing will ever happen because the system is corrupt!
There is, of course, an alternative: the system is NOT corrupt, the Department of Justice is NOT corrupt, and nothing will happen to Hillary Clinton because she did NOTHING WRONG. Just a thought for you to consider.
SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
Cheryl Mills' attorney has said that she must destroy her records because they are classified and it is illegal for her to hold them.
If that is correct, then why is Hillary holding them? Who's wrong?
rockaction
Footballguy
If this is for real, this is only how far non-enforcement and scandal are going to go hand-in-hand. Oh my God.
SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
And further on the subject of Through The Mirrored Server, by Lewis Carroll.... State has demanded that Mills and Abedin return their records.... but can't quite seem to bring themselves to demand that Hillary return hers. The court in that case is likely getting ready to order it anyway.If this is for real, this is only how far non-enforcement and scandal are going to go hand-in-hand. Oh my God.
Sure, that's a possible alternative, it just doesn't seem like the most likely conclusion given what we know so far.
I mean, there is zero doubt that Hillary did something colossally stupid in having the private server, which casts doubt on her judgment. It was also, more than likely, illegal in a number of ways. Finally, she has lied about the exact details more than once at this point, since much of what she has said is mutually exclusive and can't all be true.
otello
Footballguy
All of this is being investigated and pursued on several fronts. Some may call it political and a waste of money. Even if this is the case, like some argue here, we should give those investigating this the benefit of the doubt. All should agree, though, that Hillary did herself a disservice by using a private email server for government business.
SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
The only thing I've seen in her actual campaign that's out of bounds or unethical with regard to campaign law is probably her campaign coordinating illegally with the two Super-Pac groups which David Brock has been connected to. The above is just a news item. I try not to drop overtly negative stuff into the other thread and leave that for politics. - eta - I thought about it and you're right it's a political issue, I will mover it to the other thread. Thanks.I haven't done a great job of keeping up here.
The latest conspiracy is about questionable sources of campaign donations and buying political influence?
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SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
Political decisions aren't conspiracies.
The FBI is looking at two things right now:
- Mishandling of classified information.
- Whether there were security breaches such as by hacking.
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matuski
Footballguy
What then.. nothing? Slightly more than nothing?Political decisions aren't conspiracies.
The FBI is looking at two things right now:
We know the first happened. Waiting on confirmation of the second but we know it's likely.
- Mishandling of classified information.
- Whether there were security breaches such as by hacking.
Is this the right's next Benghazi?
SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
You mean has the FBI or DOJ issued a report yet? No. I'm guessing most never predicted the FBI getting involved, but they only got started last week. My guess is this goes into possibly the last days of Obama's term.What then.. nothing? Slightly more than nothing?Political decisions aren't conspiracies.
The FBI is looking at two things right now:
We know the first happened. Waiting on confirmation of the second but we know it's likely.
- Mishandling of classified information.
- Whether there were security breaches such as by hacking.
Is this the right's next Benghazi?
On your second question, no I doubt it, there are 35 different lawsuits involving news agencies, citizens groups and bloggers. Yes, Congress is involved on the Libya investigation, and is talking about creating a second committee on the security issues, but I think the courts and intelligence agencies will move this stuff along. Those are all separate tracks.
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IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
I haven't heard anything noteworthy about Hillary's campaign funding. Admittedly, it's hard to keep up with the entire constellation of scandals and sketchy behavior that revolves around her, but anything involving her campaign finances would be news to me.I haven't done a great job of keeping up here.
The latest conspiracy is about questionable sources of campaign donations and buying political influence?
The Commish
Footballguy
Matuski,
It feels like dejavu all over again. I remember saying verbatim the things you are saying to Max when the Dems could only manage to find Kerry to run against Dubya and I think i may have even said something similar when the GOP's best was Romney too
It's amazing what we as citizens will put up with and stand for. Sometimes I feel like the girl who makes a billion excuses for why I haven't left the guy beating me to a pulp every night.
It feels like dejavu all over again. I remember saying verbatim the things you are saying to Max when the Dems could only manage to find Kerry to run against Dubya and I think i may have even said something similar when the GOP's best was Romney too
It's amazing what we as citizens will put up with and stand for. Sometimes I feel like the girl who makes a billion excuses for why I haven't left the guy beating me to a pulp every night.
SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
Local report from Denver:
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/08/11/fbi-visits-denver-company-regarding-hillary-clinton-emails/FBI Visits Denver Company Regarding Hillary Clinton EmailsDENVER (CBS4) – A Colorado company is now a part of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email system. The FBI is looking into the security of the server she used while she was secretary of state.
A Denver company called Platte River Networks was handling the email of the secretary of state of the U.S., but it wasn’t a government account. It was a private account and it’s raising questions about security.
Last week FBI agents visited Platte River Networks which was involved in handling the Clinton email accounts
The company’s website lists awards including for being among the best Colorado businesses and places to work. But Metro State University Assistant Professor of Computer
“I would say it’s not the best choice,” Maldonado said.
The FBI would not comment on its contact with the Denver company.
The inspector general for the intelligence community had been looking into the Clinton emails. It then made a referral to the justice department which led to the FBI visit.
One issue is whether Platte River Networks could have backup copies
“i did not email any classified material,” Hillary Clinton said.
CBS4 sought a comment from Platte River Networks, but the company indicated it would have nothing to say. At this point the FBI is in the information gathering stage.
Despite the visit by the FBI, there is no formal investigation at this time. They are just trying to determine if one is warranted.
SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
Well Platte River Services did pretty well in a statewide review of IT services. It finished as one of 4 runner-ups of the best IT services companies in Colorado. So not the best, but right up there in the Top 5 in the state. Why did the Clinton IT team go there? Who knows.
You really have to check out the site to see how imposing this must have been for Russian, Chinese and Korean hackers.
You really have to check out the site to see how imposing this must have been for Russian, Chinese and Korean hackers.
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SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
Sure, you can probably find the guy who handles Hillary's classified data having a burrito bowl at lunchtime.
SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
The 
is sniffing `round Hillary's door.
eta - great site here about forensic engineers discussing the prospects of finding data on Hillary's server.
http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1235571_Ask_a_computer_forensics_expert_anything.html&page=138
is sniffing `round Hillary's door.http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article30714762.html#storylink=cpy
eta - great site here about forensic engineers discussing the prospects of finding data on Hillary's server.
http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1235571_Ask_a_computer_forensics_expert_anything.html&page=138
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SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
Here's the IG letter, dated today, via Buzzfeed:
https://twitter.com/passantino/status/631234070681227268
- Note the word handling/handle/handled.
- Less than 5% of Hillary's emails have been produced to date.
- Hillary just attested in federal court under penalty of perjury that she has turned over all public records she has or has previously had.
https://twitter.com/passantino/status/631234070681227268
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information_in_the_United_States#Handling_caveats
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information_in_the_United_States#Handling_caveats
- Note the word handling/handle/handled.
- Less than 5% of Hillary's emails have been produced to date.
- Hillary just attested in federal court under penalty of perjury that she has turned over all public records she has or has previously had.
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SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
OH F!!@ YEAH.
SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
You know that hurt Baghdad Bob Merrill to utter those words.
eta - Note that's The Justice Department, not the IG's, not State, not Congress, the D.O.J.
eta - Note that's The Justice Department, not the IG's, not State, not Congress, the D.O.J.
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SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
The Commish
Footballguy
Are we still pretending having a lack lusterly (yeah, I made that up) secured server to do top secret work is still no big deal??
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SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
Commish, you called it on the security issue.Are we still pretending having a lack lusterly (yeah, I made that up) secured server to do top secret work is still no big deal??
There will be another news drop after this once they dig into the data and the details.
MaxThreshold
Footballguy
You mean the drives she's probably already had scraped cleaned and written over (DoD style) at least 7 times? THOSE drives?
How convenient now that there is most likely nothing on them.
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SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
MaxThreshold
Footballguy
Sand
Footballguy
Todd Andrews
Footballguy
Please god, no Hillary Clinton as President.
cstu
Footballguy
Of course it's an idiotic thing to do but she's still going to be President.Are we still pretending having a lack lusterly (yeah, I made that up) secured server to do top secret work is still no big deal??
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