FBI Held "Strategy Meeting" with TransCanada ( The Investigative Fund )

[Jefferson23]

Posted by Adam Federman

March 13, 2014


On April 4, 2012 the FBI held a daylong "strategy meeting" with TransCanada Corporation, the company building the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, according to documents obtained by Earth Island Journal through a Freedom of Information Act request. The meeting, which took place in the agency's Oklahoma City Field Office, came just three weeks after President Barack Obama visited the state vowing to cut through bureaucratic red tape and approve the southern portion of the pipeline. In a speech at a TransCanada pipe yard in Cushing, Oklahoma on March 22 Obama said: "Today, we’re making this new pipeline from Cushing to the Gulf a priority. So the southern leg of it we're making a priority, and we're going to go ahead and get that done." The same day the White House issued an executive order expediting the permit and review process for energy infrastructure projects.

The FBI meeting with TransCanada suggests that concerns over opposition to the pipeline had reached the highest levels of the law enforcement community. Terry Brannon, Cushing Police Chief at the time, says it was an information-sharing meeting. "I think it was important that law enforcement and the oil companies worked hand in hand together to make sure that if something did happen, that law enforcement wasn't playing behind the eight ball," he told me. He said the biggest concerns raised at the meeting were opposition to the pipeline as well as terrorism and environmental activism.




The FBI declined to comment for this, story citing the contention surrounding the pipeline. According to Linda Wilkins, a public affairs specialist at the FBI, "TransCanada/Keystone Pipeline seems to be very politicized and controversial at this time. And the FBI generally do not participate or comment on such issues."

The FBI routinely refuses to comment on, or even acknowledge, ongoing investigations. However, the agency does not appear to have a formal policy that bars it from commenting on politically sensitive issues.

http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/blog/1942/fbi_held_%22strategy_meeting%22_with_transcanada/

[Hoppy]

1. F.B.I. refused to comment on the story....

our overlords know what is best for us.

[blkmusclmachine]

2. Keystone is a done deal.

Most probably BHO will sign off on it just around election time this year. May help the GOP take the Senate. Bi-partisanely, of course!!!