“…according to The New Yorker [on February 16, 2004], a top-secret document [dated February 3, 2001] directed National Security Council staffers to cooperate fully with the Energy Task Force as it considered ‘melding’ two areas of policy that appeared to be unrelated: ‘the review of operational policies toward rogue states,’ such as Iraq, and ‘actions regarding the capture of new and existing oil and gas fields.’ ”
– Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 203