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Cofer Black
last updated: November 29, 2012
Mitt Romney 2012 Adviser
Former Blackwater Vice President
Former CIA Officer
[Me, now: And he just happens, by coincidence, to sit on the board of Burisma Holdings.]
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Cofer Black is a former CIA officer, State Department official, and Blackwater executive who advised both the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.
During the 2012 campaign, conservative journalist Eli Lake described Black as “Mitt Romney’s trusted envoy to the dark side” of the U.S. intelligence community. “Black has known Romney since 2007, when the candidate was running for president the first time, and has been an important adviser ever since,” Lake wrote. “But unlike other Romney foreign-policy aides, he does not spend time tweaking speeches or coming up with nuanced ways to explain the candidate’s positions on international affairs. Instead, he often acts as the campaign’s in-house intelligence officer,” arranging meetings for the candidate with former intelligence officials and providing briefs from foreign intelligence agencies.[1]
Black’s 28-year CIA career reached its peak from 1999-2002, when Black served as the head of the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center (CTC). As one of the primary CIA officers charged with pursuing Al Qaeda operatives both before and after the September 11 attacks, Black faced considerable scrutiny for his role in the government’s failure to stop the attackers. A classified report from the CIA’s internal watchdog, reported the Guardian, implicated Black in the CIA’s “failure to place hijackers Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf Alhazmi on a government watchlist in 2000 and to inform the FBI that the other September 11 hijackers had entered the US,” leaving Black subject to a possible formal reprimand.[2]