Meet your new Secretary oif State

Robert Reich
12.14.2016

More of Rex Tillerson’s Exxon-Mobil foreign policies are coming to light, all of them in conflict with American foreign policy:

1. Struggling to keep Iraq from splintering, American diplomats pushed for a law in 2011 to share the country’s oil wealth among its fractious regions. Then Exxon Mobil showed up. Under Tillerson, the giant oil company sidestepped Baghdad and Washington, signing a deal directly with the Kurdish administration in the country’s north. The move undermined Iraq’s central government, strengthened Kurdish independence ambitions, contravened the stated goals of the United States, and outmaneuvered the State Department.
2. Obama’s State Department has tried to keep pressure on Equatorial Guinea to minimize human rights abuses such as arbitrarily detaining and torturing critics, disregarding elections, and using oil profits to enrich the president’s family. But by doing business in Equatorial Guinea, Exxon Mobil has reinforced the reign of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo — a strongman who has held office since 1979. “Exxon definitely has enabled a government that once upon a time was very repressive but didn’t have the resources to keep itself in power,” according to human rights activists.
3. Under Mr. Tillerson, ExxonMobil has also been in conflict with State Department policy toward Nigeria. That country’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is investigating a 2009 license renewal deal for ExxonMobil, after allegations that the company was significantly outbid by a Chinese competitor. Critics contend that the deal was done illegally.“They were running a very corrupt and opaque renewal process,” Olanrewaju Suraju, the chairman of the Civil Society Network Against Corruption in Nigeria, said of the Nigerian government in power at the time.
4. And then, of course, there's the Russian connection. Tillerson and ExxonMobil are losing billions from the U.S. sanctions on Russia for its takeover of Crimea and hostilities in Ukraine, and want those sanctions lifted.

As CEO of ExxonMobil, Tillerson has been running the equivalent of a nation state with an overseas agenda often in conflict with that of the United States. Senators at his confirmation hearing should pry into where his true loyalties lie.
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