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To: xjcsa
A thread with this article got pulled yesterday -- perhaps because of my intemperate (to say the least) language. LOL. I'll be more diplomatic this time . . .

In a speech last year, former CIA director R. James Woolsey Jr. had some advice for American motorists: "The next time you pull into a gas station to fill your car with gas, bend down a little and take a glance in the side-door mirror. . . . What you will see is a contributor to terrorism against the United States." Woolsey is known as a conservative, but plenty of liberals have also eagerly adopted the mantra that America's foreign oil purchases are funding terrorism.

Woolsey is not a conservative, and describing him as the former CIA director doesn't accurately portray his stance on this issue.

He now works for an organization called the National Commission on Energy Policy. The NCEP is a Beltway front group for left-wing environmental lobbyists that gets most of its funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation -- a non-profit foundation that finances all sorts of leftist causes related to government policy, environmental regulations, etc.

So Woolsey is basically using his CIA and "anti-terrorism" credentials to mask the left-wing agenda of the organization for which he works.

8 posted on 01/24/2008 7:24:33 AM PST by Alberta's Child (I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
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To: Alberta's Child
A thread with this article got pulled yesterday -- perhaps because of my intemperate

It was pulled because it was sourced incorrectly and not excepted.

20 posted on 01/24/2008 7:38:55 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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