According to an article in the February 16, 2004, issue of The New Yorker: ” ‘People think [Vice President Dick] Cheney’s Energy Task Force has been secretive about domestic issues,’ said Mark Medish, senior director for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian affairs at the National Security Council during the Clinton administration. ‘But if this little group was discussing geostrategic plans for oil, it puts the issue of war in the context of the captains of the oil industry sitting down with Cheney and laying grand, global plans.’ ”
– Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 203