Black never worked for foreign clients without first talking to the State Department and the White House and clearing with them that the work would be in the interest of U.S. foreign policy.
Black has served on the Board of Directors of U.S. Air Force Academy Foundation.
You surprised me I thought you would say that Charlie Black never, never, never—-just like you said Rick Davis never, never, never was a lobbyist, but we know both are lobbyist. Does it surprise anyone that the
White House would OK his plan?
“Silverstein suggested to TAC that Black and friends knew what their clients were about all along. Caring was not part of the contract. But that doesn’t change the fact that these characters would never enjoy high-level access if Beltway fixers were not obscuring their atrocities and trumpeting their agendas.“
“Americans might have expected that a candidate who claims “it’s over for the special interests” would refuse to play the lobbyists’ game. Just the opposite: John McCain seems to think that foreign agents make ideal advisers. So it should come as no surprise that, from Tbilisi to Tel Aviv, he has trouble distinguishing other countries’ interests from our own”
