Hillary's Enron Moment

NewsMax ^ | January 12, 2002 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[MeekOneGOP]

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Saturday Jan. 12. 2001; 11:57 a.m. EST

Hillary's Enron Moment

Democrats hoping the Enron scandal will be the beginning of the end of the Bush presidency have a problem on their hands. Call it the Clinton precedent.

That is; whatever the Bush White House may or may not have done wrong as the largest energy trading company in the world slid into bankruptcy, it pales next to the misdeeds of the former first couple, who were given a pass on almost every count.

Take, for instance, the most shocking allegation in the Enron scandal to date - that the world renowned accounting firm Arthur Andersen destroyed documents during its recent audit of the energy giant.

Hillary's already been there - done that.

In 1996 the Resolution Trust Corporation was ready to close down its probe into the Clintons' Whitewater land deal and give the first couple a clean bill of health.

Then suddenly evidence emerged that Hillary personally oversaw the shredding of Whitewater-related documents just as state banking investigators began to take an interest in the S&L owned by her business partners, Jim and Susan McDougal.

"Hillary Rodham Clinton ordered the destruction of documents of four files in 1988 from her work on the failed savings and loan that's now at the heart of the Whitewater affair," the Associated Press reported in Jan. 1996.

"According to newly released documents, the files described her work just two years earlier for Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan, and three of them dealt with Mrs. Clinton's work on the Castle Grande....

"Mrs. Clinton said that she did not initiate the destruction, but that she earmarked the documents for disposal after the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Ark., issued a request for all lawyers to identify files they no longer needed," the AP added.

At the time of Mrs. Clinton's shredding party, state banking regulators had already alleged that the Castle Grande "was a sham designed to circumvent the law restricting the amount of money an S&L can invest in its subsidiaries," the report noted.

The revelation that Mrs. Clinton ordered the destruction of key evidence came just two weeks after her Castle Grande-Whitewater billing records mysteriously materialized in the White House book room after being under subpoenaed for two years.

Despite the first lady's claim that it was a routine house cleaning that prompted her to dispose of evidence, Rose Law's managing partner Ron Clark later told Senate Whitewater probers that most law firms, including his, always kept records like the ones destroyed by Clinton for at least 6 years.

That Hillary got away with such blatant obstruction of justice without so much as a slap on the wrist makes it pretty tough to get excited over allegations that Arthur Andersen did something far less obviously criminal.

And we're talking about an independent accounting firm here - not President Bush or his wife, or even any Enron officials. Imagine the media hysteria if Laura Bush been forced to make a Hillary-like confession of evidence shredding.

Keep Mrs. Clinton's Whitewater shredding party, and the media's lethargic reaction to it, in mind tomorrow when the Sunday TV news shows treat the Andersen document disposal as if it's the Enron scandal's smoking gun.

Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:

Bush Administration
Sen. Hillary Clinton

[MeekOneGOP]

Easy link:

Hillary's Enron Moment
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/1/12/110305

[MeekOneGOP]

I'm not FAT, am I Roger???

[BOBTHENAILER]

Great article, great pictures.

Let's not forget the other practicioners of the Arthur Anderson/Hillary school of document storage, er, disposal. All the E-Mail relative to Gore campaign fundraising: erased. EPA chief Carol Browner's hard drive: erased. On and on, ad infinitum.

[dalebert]

I don't think the Bush administration would have been in the wrong if they had tried to help Enron. The salavating press is what is driving this story and they don't even have any facts to do it with.Enrons major growth period was during the Clinton administration. As for the so called Bush tax cut getting rid of the surplus, congressional spending went up far more than what the 15%of budget the tax cut cost.When is someone with a little sense going to hit the press? Never mind, I know, when hell freezes over.

[Slyfox]

Been there, done that

[MeekOneGOP]

As for the so called Bush tax cut getting rid of the surplus, congressional spending went up far more than what the 15% of budget the tax cut cost.When is someone with a little sense going to hit the press? Never mind, I know, when hell freezes over.

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And that tax "cut" hasn't even hit the books yet (it went into effect what? - 12 days ago?). . .

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Regarding Media Bias. . .

The Free-Market's Solution to Media Bias: FOXNews
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/598124/posts

Also, see:
CBS: Gunga Dan Rather's Home Site
http://www.RatherBiased.com/"

*** YOUNG RATHER:
I'M A DEMOCRAT ***
http://www.ratherbiased.com/photos/rather-frown2.jpg

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Check out the other articles posted here on FR that show the media bias!:

FR Article Search for: Media Bias
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/latest?warp=X&ao=1&s=media+bias

[muawiyah]

bump

[Cicero]

As a matter of fact, the Bush tax cut, while very welcome, is pretty small. I don't see much difference in my paycheck, and I'm still going to be hit the same as ever by the Alternative Minimum Tax for the privilege of having a large family.

[MeekOneGOP]

As a matter of fact, the Bush tax cut, while very welcome, is pretty small. I don't see much difference in my paycheck, and I'm still going to be hit the same as ever by the Alternative Minimum Tax for the privilege of having a large family.

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I am not surprised you don't see much difference. It is "backloaded", meaning the bulk of the cut is effective in the later years in this 10 year bill. (I'm pretty sure I got that right?). . .

[My Identity]

I believe that Enron should be explained/positioned/spun as another Clinton mess that blewup on GW's watch.
Apparently (and fortunately) GW had the good sense not to get caught in the mess.

MI

[Outraged]

This is what I don't get...The democRATS have a concerted chorus manufacturing slander and lies, which are effective and Republicans wear to this day...Yet we have so much REAL and CRIMINAL dirt on these RATS, and we act like the Key Stone Cops...Just pisses me off.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Let the Rats push tax increases, again, we have many who committed their worthless souls to reductions.

Regarding Enron, maintain the headlines! Nothing better than quality front page news and we can dig deep here!

I'd like to know what the difference is between a small contribution and a large one, why does size matter? What stands in the way of intent, Hillary, Dashole, Gephardt, Lieberman, Clinton, Gore, Kennedy...?

[MeekOneGOP]

This is what I don't get...The democRATS have a concerted chorus manufacturing slander and lies, which are effective and Republicans wear to this day...Yet we have so much REAL and CRIMINAL dirt on these RATS, and we act like the Key Stone Cops...Just pisses me off.

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Bush has done nothing wrong. He knows the political value of the DIMocRATS are tryin' to do and will handle it in an appropriate manner. I like it when he plays hardball with DashHole. I don't recall him chiming in on this yet, have you?? I think he's still recovering from Bush last fastball to him after he tried to tell the American folks that the tax cut "actually made the economy worse" BS.

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I notice on your profile: "I am the Right Wing Conspiracy!" I love it! Here, wear your colors proudly!:

[MeekOneGOP]

Good article, fyi:

Steyn: They can't Pin This on Bush
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/607112/posts

[Slyfox]

Ashcroft sets the bar at a height the Democrats can't rise to.

I hope the dems scream real loud about the 'Republican involvement' in Enrongate,
because soon enough that infernal donkey braying will sound just like a bunch of stuck pigs.

[MeekOneGOP]

I hope the dems scream real loud about the 'Republican involvement' in Enrongate, because soon enough that infernal donkey braying will sound just like a bunch of stuck pigs.

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LOL! ! I think that this has a good chance of backfiring on the DIMocRATS. clintoon et al DIMocRATS had associations with Enron even more than the GOP I think. . .

[BOBTHENAILER]

Thanks for the heads up. I've spent the last two days composing my letters to Leiberman and Waxman in re: Enron. Hopefully I'll get them posted tomorrow. This really has my blood boiling and I aint gonna take it anymore.