Pulling on threads

Carrying out a threat to follow through on sharing some of the threads that come from hits to the Stew, Guambat noticed a couple of hits on the last post, having to do with Abramoff's dealings with the Guam Superior Court and such matters.

The hits seemed to be sourced from Koch Industries. Guambat hadn't heard of Koch Industries, or hadn't paid attention if he had, and had no idea why anyone from Koch Industries would be interested in the Abramoff/Guam link.

That's just Guambat up to his usual lazy habit of not paying attention, it seems. Turns out, on closer examination, there was a reference to Koch Industries in that post:

In July 2002, seven entries for Duane Gibson mentioning “performance roads” that appeared to be related to work done by Greenberg & Traurig on behalf of Koch Industries were also included in the Guam billing records.

So who is Koch Industries and why the interest in such a seemingly trivial reference?

Google-blog Koch Industries. It has got to be the only place on the planet that not only puts dots between Anna Nicole Smith, big business and the John Birch Society, but actually joins them. (Wikipedia has a profile, too.)



As the guy on Laugh-in used to say, "velly intellesting".