http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/the_kochs_and_the_keystone_xl_pipeline/
To answer the concerns about global warming raised by the XL and the Kochs oil business, the billionaire brothers have bankrolled a gold-plated campaign of global warming denial.
For example, Americans for Prosperity funded Hot Air Tour rallies across the US with the slogan, Global Warming Alarmism: Lost Jobs, Higher Taxes and Less Freedom. More rallies were held by the Koch-funded FreedomWorks, a foundation which has seized control of the Tea Party movement and redirected populist rage against plutocrats. FreedomWorks transformed the Tea Party into a used tea bag, dangling from the Kochs' string.
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The Kochs power to terrorize politicians in Oklahoma and the West originates in that case of Osage tribes missing oil.
FBI agents filmed Koch Oil men pilfering the crude, had witnesses to Kochs directives to siphon the oil, and more. The US Justice Department drafted a criminal indictment of Koch Industries and Defendant 67C (reportedly Charles Koch himself) for Crime on an Indian Reservation and racketeering, big-time jail-time offenses.
Thats when Koch Oil drilled down and struck Bob Dole, the nations most powerful Senator, the Republican Majority Leader.
Dole (representing Kansas), joined by a Koch-funded Senator from Oklahoma, Don Nickles, had the federal prosecutor who brought the case fired. Case closed except for a few million paid to the Osage for some of their stolen oil.