U.S. not happy with Hunt Oil

U.S. Embassy officials in Baghdad told reporters Dallas-based Hunt Oil’s deal with the Kurdistan Regional Government has "needlessly elevated tensions" with the federal Iraq government. AFP has the story from Baghdad.

I’ll bring it up at Friday’s State Department briefing here in Washington, if there is one. So far the U.S. government has been fairly mum amidst accusations the deal undermined U.S. policy in Iraq and that CEO Ray Hunt’s connections to President Bush had something to do with the deal.