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2. How a State Department plan to stabilize Iraq broke apart

Author

Gerth, Jeff and Warrick, Joby

Subjects
United States. Department of State -- Officials and employees, Iraq War, 2003-2011, Postwar reconstruction -- Planning -- Political aspects, United States foreign relations, Iraqi foreign relations, Prime ministers -- Powers and duties, American military assistance -- Planning -- Political aspects, Company business planning, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Al-Qaeda in Iraq -- Military aspects
Abstract

Byline: JEFF GERTHPro Publicaand JOBY WARRICKThe Washington Post A week before the last U.S. soldiers left his country in December 2011, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki traveled to Washington to [...]

Published
2016

3. Promises unfulfilled: How a State Department plan to stabilize Iraq broke apart

Author

Gerth, Jeff and Warrick, Joby

Subjects
United States. Department of State -- Military policy, United States foreign relations, Iraqi foreign relations, Secretaries of state -- Political activity, Troop withdrawal -- Political aspects -- International aspects, Military operations -- Political aspects -- International aspects, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Jeff Gerth and Joby Warrick A week before the last U.S. soldiers left his country in December 2011, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki traveled to Washington to meet the [...]

Published
2016

4. Paulson's book details GE chief's private concerns in 2008 over company's debt

Author

Gerth, Jeff

Subjects
Company financing, Company business management, General Electric Co. -- Finance, General Electric Co. -- Officials and employees, On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System (Nonfiction work) -- Criticism and interpretation, Electrical equipment and supplies industry -- Finance, Electrical equipment and supplies industry -- Officials and employees, Public officers -- Authorship
Published
2010

6. As crisis loomed, Geithner pressed but fell short: before Timothy Geithner became Treasury chief, he regulated major U.S. banks. Now he says: 'We're having a major financial crisis in part because of failures of supervision'

Author

O'Harrow, Robert Jr. and Gerth, Jeff

Subjects
Banking industry, Company business management, Company financing, United States. Federal Reserve Bank of New York -- Economic policy, Banking industry -- Management, Banking industry -- Finance, Bank failures, Derivatives (Financial instruments)
Published
2009

7. MUSLIM SCHOLARS WERE PAID TO AID U.S. PROPAGANDA

Author

Cloud, David S. and Gerth, Jeff

Subjects
Contract agreement, Lincoln Group Inc. -- Contracts, Public relations agencies -- Contracts, Religious scholars -- Political activity -- Government finance -- Religious aspects, Elections -- Religious aspects -- Government finance, Sunnites -- Political activity -- Religious aspects -- Government finance, Propaganda, Iraqi -- Religious aspects -- Government finance
Abstract

A Pentagon contractor that paid Iraqi newspapers to print positive articles written by American soldiers has also been compensating Sunni religious scholars in Iraq in return for assistance with its […]

Published
2006

9. Military's Information War Is Vast and Often Secretive

Author

Gerth, Jeff

Subjects
Company public relations, Company business management, Company systems management, Contract agreement, Company distribution practices, Lincoln Group Inc. -- Contracts -- Public relations -- Distribution -- Information management -- Management, United States. Department of Defense -- Public relations -- Information management -- Contracts -- Management, United States. Army -- Information management -- Management, Public relations agencies -- Contracts -- Information management -- Distribution, Mass media industry -- Management -- Public relations -- Contracts -- Information management -- Distribution, Propaganda, American -- Distribution
Abstract

The media center in Fayetteville, N.C., would be the envy of any global communications company. In state of the art studios, producers prepare the daily mix of music and news […]

Published
2005

10. U.S. Is Said to Pay to Plant Articles in Iraq Papers

Author

Gerth, Jeff and Shane, Scott

Subjects
Newspaper publishing -- Political aspects, Iraq -- Political aspects
Abstract

Titled 'The Sands Are Blowing Toward a Democratic Iraq,' an article written this week for publication in the Iraqi press was scornful of outsiders' pessimism about the country's future. 'Western […]

Published
2005

11. Some Doubt Saudi Pledge To Increase Oil Output

Author

Gerth, Jeff

Subjects
Petroleum industry -- Capacity -- Production data, Saudi Arabia -- Energy policy
Abstract

Last spring, the White House publicly embraced plans by Saudi Arabia to increase its oil production capacity significantly. But privately, some officials and others advising the government are skeptical about […]

Published
2005

12. As Saudi Visits, Bush Seeks Help on Lowering Oil Prices

Author

Stevenson, Richard W. and Gerth, Jeff

Subjects
United States -- Foreign policy -- Energy policy, Saudi Arabia -- Foreign policy -- Energy policy -- International relations
Abstract

When he meets at his ranch here on Monday with Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, President Bush will confront one of his trickiest diplomatic relationships. He will look for […]

Published
2005

13. Big Oil Steps Aside in Battle Over Arctic

Author

Gerth, Jeff

Subjects
Oil and gas exploration, United States -- Energy policy
Abstract

George W. Bush first proposed drilling for oil in a small part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska in 2000, after oil industry experts helped his presidential campaign […]

Published
2005

14. Fingerprinting Glitches Are Said to Hurt Antiterror Effort

Author

Gerth, Jeff

Subjects
Company legal issue, United States. Department of Defense -- Equipment and supplies -- Standards -- Investigations, Terrorism -- Investigations -- Equipment and supplies -- Military aspects, Afghanistan -- Military aspects, United States -- Military policy, Iraq -- Military aspects
Abstract

Problems in searching fingerprint databases have left the American military unable to check fully the identities of thousands of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, raising concerns that they might be […]

Published
2004

16. Rice Defends Going to War Despite Dispute About Iraqi Weapons

Author

Gerth, Jeff

Subjects
Company legal issue, Nuclear weapons -- Investigations -- Military aspects, United States -- Military policy, Iraq -- Military aspects
Abstract

Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national security adviser, on Sunday defended the decision to go to war against Saddam Hussein even while intelligence analysts disputed an important piece of evidence behind […]

Published
2004

18. Lukoil Begins Effort to Build Ties Globally

Author

Gerth, Jeff

Subjects
Overseas Private Investment Corp., PJSC LUKOIL -- Alliances and partnerships -- Foreign operations, ConocoPhillips Co. -- Alliances and partnerships -- Foreign operations, Petroleum industry -- International aspects -- Alliances and partnerships -- Foreign operations
Abstract

Vagit Y. Alekperov, the president of Lukoil, is at ease talking about finding fossil fuels. 'I am an expert in the area of oil and gas production,' he said in […]

Published
2004

19. Higher Oil Prices Are Damaging Global Economy, a Study Shows

Author

Gerth, Jeff

Subjects
Market trend/market analysis, Company pricing policy, International Energy Agency -- Reports, Global economy -- Forecasts and trends -- Economic aspects -- Reports, Gross domestic product -- International aspects -- Forecasts and trends -- Reports -- Economic aspects, Petroleum -- Prices and rates -- Economic aspects
Abstract

Higher oil prices have hurt the global economy and could further hamper growth, bolster inflation and increase unemployment over the next two years if prices stay at their current levels, […]

Published
2004

20. Shell Officer Said To Have Wanted Report Destroyed

Author

Gerth, Jeff and Timmons, Heather

Subjects
Company legal issue, Royal Dutch-Shell PLC -- Cases, Petroleum industry -- Cases, Embezzlement -- Cases, Fraud -- Cases, Corporations -- Ethical aspects
Abstract

A senior executive at the Royal Dutch/Shell Group told a subordinate in an e-mail message in December that the employee's preliminary analysis of the company's oil and gas reserves problems […]

Published
2004

21. Ex-Shell Executive Says He Questioned Reserves

Author

Gerth, Jeff and Labaton, Stephen

Subjects
Royal Dutch-Shell PLC -- Officials and employees -- Ethical aspects, Petroleum industry -- Officials and employees -- Ethical aspects
Abstract

A former top executive of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group said on Tuesday that he was asked to resign in March 'without credible explanation,' adding that two years earlier he had […]

Published
2004

23. OMAN'S OIL YIELD LONG IN DECLINE, SHELL DATA SHOW

Author

Gerth, Jeff and Labaton, Stephen

Subjects
Royal Dutch-Shell PLC -- Production management, Petroleum industry -- Production management
Abstract

The Royal Dutch/Shell Group's oil production in Oman has been declining for years, belying the company's optimistic reports and raising doubts about a vital question in the Middle East: whether […]

Published
2004

24. Nigeria Says Reserves Are Unaffected by Shell Cuts

Author

Gerth, Jeff and Labaton, Stephen

Subjects
Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. -- Reports -- Production data, Royal Dutch-Shell PLC -- Reports -- Production data, Petroleum industry -- Reports -- Production data, Petroleum -- Reserves
Abstract

Nigeria's national oil company says its oil and gas reserves have not been affected by the Royal Dutch/Shell Group's recent reduction of its estimates of proven reserves in the country. […]

Published
2004

25. Shell Withheld Reserves Data To Aid Nigeria

Author

Gerth, Jeff and Labaton, Stephen

Subjects
Royal Dutch-Shell PLC -- Accounting and auditing -- Production management, Petroleum industry -- Accounting and auditing -- Production management -- Political aspects, Nigeria -- Natural resource policy -- Political aspects
Abstract

The Royal Dutch/Shell Group has kept secret important details of its sharp reduction in oil and gas reserves, particularly in Nigeria, for fear of damaging its business relationship with the […]

Published
2004

26. At Shell, New Accounting and Rosier Oil Outlook

Author

Labaton, Stephen and Gerth, Jeff

Subjects
Company legal issue, Company business management, Royal Dutch-Shell PLC -- Management -- Discovery and exploration -- Officials and employees -- Accounting and auditing, United States. Securities and Exchange Commission -- Investigations -- Officials and employees -- Accounting and auditing -- Management, Petroleum industry -- Officials and employees -- Accounting and auditing -- Management -- Discovery and exploration
Abstract

Arriving on stage in a spaceship and an astronaut suit, Philip Watts, then the senior executive in charge of exploration and production for the Royal Dutch/Shell Group, glowed as he […]

Published
2004

27. Shell Found Variety of Practices for Rivals' Reserves

Author

Labaton, Stephen and Gerth, Jeff

Subjects
Company business management, Royal Dutch-Shell PLC -- Management, Petroleum industry -- Management -- Measurement, Petroleum -- Reserves
Abstract

A month before the Royal Dutch/Shell Group downgraded its estimate of its oil and natural gas reserves by 20 percent, the company concluded that some of its chief rivals, like […]

Published
2004

28. Oil Giant's Officials Knew Of Gaps in Reserves in '02

Author

Labaton, Stephen and Gerth, Jeff

Subjects
Company business management, Royal Dutch-Shell PLC -- Ethical aspects -- Management, Petroleum industry -- Ethical aspects -- Management
Abstract

The new head of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group and its current chief financial officer, as well as the chairman ousted last week, were advised of huge shortfalls in proven oil […]

Published
2004

29. Saudis Debate Expert in U.S. On Outlook For Their Oil

Author

Gerth, Jeff

Subjects
Market trend/market analysis, Petroleum industry -- Production data -- Forecasts and trends -- Economic aspects, Saudi Arabia -- Economic aspects
Abstract

Saudi Arabian oil executives said Tuesday that they planned to maintain production capacity at the current rate of 10 million barrels a day for the rest of this decade but […]

Published
2004

31. Forecast of Rising Oil Demand Challenges Tired Saudi Fields

Author

Gerth, Jeff

Subjects
Petroleum industry -- International aspects -- Production data -- Economic aspects, Saudi Arabia -- Economic aspects
Abstract

When visitors tour the headquarters of Saudi Arabia's oil empire -- a sleek glass building rising from the desert in Dhahran near the Persian Gulf -- they are reminded of […]

Published
2004

32. Halliburton Contracts in Iraq: The Struggle to Manage Costs

Author

Gerth, Jeff and Van Natta, Jr., Don

Subjects
Contract agreement, Government contract, Halliburton Co. -- Contracts, Petroleum services industry -- Contracts, Public contracts -- Economic aspects, Iraq -- Economic aspects
Abstract

The Qarmat Ali water treatment plant in southern Iraq is crucial to keeping the oil flowing from the region's petroleum-rich fields. So when American engineers found the antiquated plant barely […]

Published
2003

33. Report Sees Vast Needs for Energy Capital

Author

Gerth, Jeff

Subjects
Company financing, Market trend/market analysis, International Energy Agency -- Reports, Energy economics -- Reports -- Forecasts and trends, Energy industry -- Finance -- Reports -- Forecasts and trends, Energy consumption -- Forecasts and trends -- Reports
Abstract

The world's increasing demand for energy will require total investments of $16 trillion by 2030, most of it needed to maintain and expand the electricity infrastructure, according to a study […]

Published
2003

36. Report Offered Bleak Outlook About Iraq Oil

Author

Gerth, Jeff

Subjects
Company financing, Market trend/market analysis, United States. Department of Defense -- Reports, Natural gas -- Reports -- International trade -- Economic aspects -- Forecasts and trends, Postwar reconstruction -- Finance -- Forecasts and trends -- Reports -- Economic aspects, Petroleum industry -- Economic aspects -- Reports -- International trade -- Forecasts and trends -- Finance, Gas industry -- Forecasts and trends -- Finance, Petroleum -- Economic aspects -- Forecasts and trends -- Reports -- International trade, Iraq -- Economic aspects
Abstract

The Bush administration's optimistic statements earlier this year that Iraq's oil wealth, not American taxpayers, would cover most of the cost of rebuilding Iraq were at odds with a bleaker […]

Published
2003

37. U.S. and Oil Companies Back Revised Effort on Disclosure

Author

Gerth, Jeff

Subjects
Government regulation, Exxon Mobil Corp. -- Political activity -- Laws, regulations and rules, Financial disclosure -- Political aspects -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Economic aspects, Natural gas -- Economic aspects -- Political aspects -- Laws, regulations and rules, Petroleum industry -- Laws, regulations and rules -- International aspects -- Economic aspects -- Political activity -- Political aspects, Gas industry -- Economic aspects -- Political aspects -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Political activity, Petroleum -- Economic aspects -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Political aspects, Energy industry -- Political activity -- Political aspects -- Economic aspects -- Laws, regulations and rules
Abstract

The Bush administration and major oil companies are participating in an unlikely alliance with activist groups in support of an international campaign for more disclosure of information about financial transactions […]

Published
2003

38. Ambitious Bush Plan Is Undone by Energy Politics

Author

Bumiller, Elisabeth and Gerth, Jeff

Subjects
Company legal issue, Task forces -- Political aspects -- Investigations -- Cases -- Analysis, Energy policy -- Political aspects -- Analysis -- Cases, Energy industry -- Political activity -- Cases -- Political aspects -- Analysis, United States -- Energy policy
Abstract

President Bush stood at a gasoline station near his ranch in Texas today and said he had been calling for an energy bill to modernize the nation's electricity grid 'for […]

Published
2003

39. A Sleuth in the Murky World of Oil Data

Author

Gerth, Jeff

Subjects
Petro-Logistics Ltd. -- Officials and employees -- Services, Petroleum services industry -- Officials and employees -- Services
Abstract

From his spare office over a grocery store in Geneva, Conrad Gerber can sway world oil markets. Mr. Gerber runs a small firm, Petro-Logistics Ltd., that collects and analyzes data […]

Published
2003

40. The Road to the Panel's Final Report

Author

Gerth, Jeff

Subjects
Company legal issue, Company business planning, United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- Investigations -- Cases, United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Investigations -- Cases, World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks, 2001 -- Investigations -- Planning -- Cases, Intelligence gathering -- Investigations -- Cases, Security systems industry -- Cases, Governmental investigations -- Planning -- Cases, Terrorism -- Investigations -- Cases
Abstract

The release of the Congressional report on the Sept. 11 attacks is the culmination of a protracted, occasionally bumpy and often secret investigation into the intelligence failings that led to […]

Published
2003

41. Canada Builds a Large Oil Estimate on Sand

Author

Gerth, Jeff

Subjects
Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers -- Reports, Oil sands -- Analysis -- Reports -- Research, Petroleum -- Reserves, Canada -- Natural resources
Abstract

This year's rankings of oil reserves included a surprise that grabbed the attention of some industry experts: Canada had leaped into second place, increasing its reserves from 5 billion barrels […]

Published
2003

42. C.I.A. Chief Won't Name Officials Who Failed to Add Hijackers to Watch List

Author

Gerth, Jeff

Subjects
Company legal issue, United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- Investigations -- Reports -- Cases, United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Investigations -- Reports -- Cases, United States. Congress -- Investigations -- Cases, World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks, 2001 -- Investigations -- Reports -- Cases, Security systems industry -- Cases, Terrorism -- Cases, Official secrets -- Cases
Abstract

Seven months after telling Congress he would do so, George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence, has yet to provide the names of agency officials responsible for one of […]

Published
2003

43. Selling Golfers the Hope Of the Sweeter Swing

Author

Gerth, Jeff

Subjects
Company marketing practices, Product enhancement, Sporting goods industry -- Advertising -- Marketing -- Product enhancement, Golf clubs (Sporting goods) -- Marketing -- Purchasing -- Product enhancement
Abstract

THE controversy surrounding the Masters at the all-male Augusta National Golf Club this year means that there won't be any advertisements during the broadcast of today's round. But the tournament […]

Published
2003

44. A Measured Way to Put the Right Club in Your Hands

Author

Gerth, Jeff

Subjects
Golfers -- Personal narratives -- Measurement, Golf clubs (Sporting goods) -- Purchasing -- Measurement
Abstract

MY golf irons and swing are more than 40 years old, acquired when I successfully competed in high school and college golf tournaments. I discovered how out of date they […]

Published
2003

45. U.S. Is Banking on Iraq Oil To Finance Reconstruction

Author

Gerth, Jeff

Subjects
Company financing, Contract agreement, Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Finance -- Economic aspects -- Military aspects, Public debts -- Finance -- Discovery and exploration -- Military aspects -- Economic aspects, Natural gas -- Discovery and exploration -- International trade, War -- Finance -- Military aspects -- Economic aspects -- Discovery and exploration, Petroleum industry -- International trade -- Discovery and exploration -- Contracts, Gas industry -- Contracts -- International trade, Foreign corporations -- Contracts -- Discovery and exploration -- Military aspects -- Economic aspects, Petroleum -- Discovery and exploration -- International trade -- Reserves, Iraq -- International trade -- Economic aspects -- Military aspects
Abstract

The Bush administration is counting on Iraq's oil wealth to finance the country's recovery, but officials acknowledged today that the United States was largely in the dark about Iraq's oil […]

Published
2003

46. U.S. Businessman Is Accused Of Oil Bribes to Kazakhstan

Author

Gerth, Jeff

Subjects
Company legal issue, Mercator Corp. -- Cases, Mobil Oil Corp. -- Investigations -- Cases, United States. Department of Justice -- Cases -- Investigations, Bribery -- Cases, Natural gas -- Cases, Petroleum industry -- Investigations -- Cases, Gas industry -- Cases, Petroleum -- Cases, Merchant banks -- Cases
Abstract

Federal investigators have arrested an American businessman on two charges of paying tens of millions of dollars to senior officials of Kazakhstan in connection with an oil concession awarded by […]

Published
2003

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