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Center for Research on Globalization
April 13, 2018
Cofer Black, who was the director of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center from 1999 to May 2002, famously said after the 9/11 attacks the “gloves come off.” There is much that remains hidden from the public on his role in the rendition and torture of detainees. The CIA contends torture did not begin untilÃâà...
The London Economic
March 27, 2018
Having been forced to surrender control of Blackwater to Cofer Black, late of the CIA's Counter Terrorism Committee, following a wave of scandals to 2007, Prince established a de facto Foreign Legion run by the government of the United Arab Emirates. He was also a key donor to the Make AmericaÃâà...
Market Exclusive
March 5, 2018
The Options awarded to Mr. Jerry Jasinowski will be exercisable for up to 4,900,000 shares of common stock. The Options awarded to Dr. Navid Malik will be exercisable for up to 9,065,000 shares of common stock. The Options awarded to Ambassador Cofer Black will be exercisable for up to 1,715,000Ãâà...
Independent.ie
February 23, 2018
Cofer Black, the former head of the CIA's counter-terrorism centre, is also a director of Latvia's Baltic International Bank. One bank that escaped fines in the Korea probe, ABLV, is the lender the US designated a "primary money-laundering concern" last week. It denied the charges, said it's taken steps toÃâà...
London Review of Books
February 14, 2018
'When this is all over,' Cofer Black, Bush's chief counterterrorist adviser, assured his boss, 'the bad guys are going to have flies walking across their eyeballs.' The mood was infectious among the personnel in charge of exterminating the brutes. The Atlantic's Robert Kaplan cheerfully reported that 'WelcomeÃâà...
The Guardian
November 8, 2017
Leading the delegation was Cofer Black, head of the CIA's counter-terrorist centre. Black was still wearing the same suit he had put on five days earlier, and looked shattered: he had been working day and night to draw up a cogent plan to protect his country from any further attacks. Inside the embassyÃâà...
International Policy Digest
October 12, 2017
Burisma invited on to its board former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, Hunter Biden, a U.S. attorney and the son of former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, and former Director of the CIA's Counter Terrorist Center Joseph Cofer Black. Pozharskyi said these additions were a statement of intent.
Newsweek
June 14, 2017
The warnings came as early as May 2001, then chief of the CIA's counterterrorism center Cofer Black, told Politico in 2015. “It was very evident that we were going to be struck, we were gonna be struck hard and lots of Americans were going to die,” he said. Bakos said that American intelligence agenciesÃâà...
Huffington Post
February 22, 2017
Burisma Group, an independent oil and gas company with operations in Ukraine, announced that Joseph Cofer Black will join the company's board of directors. Joseph Cofer Black's past experience includes: Director of CIA's Counterterrorist Center between 1999 and 2002, and Ambassador at Large forÃâà...
Kyiv Post
February 15, 2017
International Energy Group Burisma has expanded its Board of Directors to include an expert in the field of security and strategic development. Joseph Cofer Black, a former Director of the CIA's Counterterrorist Center and Ambassador at Large for counter-terrorism recently joined the Board as anÃâà...
CBS News
May 21, 2016
COFER BLACK | DIRECTOR, COUNTERTERRORISM CENTER, 1999-2002: The first week that I was in the counter terrorism center, you know, new chief comes in, they stick you in a conference room and all the people start coming in and briefing you on their areas of activity. I don't shock easy. But I wasÃâà...
POLITICO Magazine
November 12, 2015
By May of 2001, says Cofer Black, then chief of the CIA's counterterrorism center, “it was very evident that we were going to be struck, we were gonna be struck hard and lots of Americans were going to die.” “There were real plots being manifested,” Cofer's former boss, George Tenet, told me in his firstÃâà...
Sputnik International
December 31, 1999
Among those who signed the April 9 letter are formers heads of the CIA during the Obama administration John Brennan, Leon Panetta and Michael Morrell; former DNI for the Obama administration James Clapper; former director of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center Cofer Black; former director of the CIAÃâà...
Shadowproof (blog)
December 31, 1999
It was signed by Jeremy Bash, Cofer Black, John Brennan, James Clapper, Porter Goss, Michael Hayden, Henry Kissinger, Mike Morell, Mike Mukasey, John Negroponte, Leon Panetta, John Rizzo, Jose Rodriguez, George Tenet, Fran Townsend, and others. “Ms. Haspel is a proven leader who inspiresÃâà...
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