No Special Prosecutor Will Be Appointed On Enron Case

CNN and CNBC Financial Network ^ | February 4, 2002 | Wolf Blitzer

[codebreaker]

CNN just announced following up on an ealier report on CNBC that there will be no special prosecutor appointed by the Justice to investigate the Enron case.

The liberals on television were then screaming that the current man in charge of the investigation after Ashcroft recused himself worked in Houston as a lawyer with some of the principals involved here.

[codebreaker]

Guess the liberals will have to find something else to whine about.

[otterpond]

These are the same liberals who couldn't stand special prosecutors when they were investigating clinton, right?

During the clinton years, there were real crimes with investigators looking for suspects. The liberals now want investigators looking at suspects in hopes of finding a crime. Interesting juxtaposition, don't you think?

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

amen were they not the ones saying the ind prosecuter law was outdated

[BOBTHENAILER]

Bummer. I was waiting for the headlines:

Special Prosecutor subpeonas Clinton, Richardson, McLarty, Ron Brown's widow, Albright, Prime Ministers' of India, Mozambique, Croatia & Nigeria. Announces many more to follow.

Lieberman, Daschle and Waxman announce joint vacation to Indonesia. Fritz Hollings checks into nursing home for "jest a little tech of rehab".

[otterpond]

were they not the ones saying the ind prosecuter law was outdated

The independent council law lapsed after the dems got a taste of their own medicine.

Special prosecutors are a horse of another color cuz special prosecutors can be saddled with limited authority and reined in when they become too threatening.

[Lockbox]

I think the independent prosecutor law has expired, therefore one cannot be appointed.

But the Libs will spin this into "The Bush Administrate refuses to appoint an independent prosecutor". Forget the details that they can't.

[Howlin]

Has there been a crime???????

[scooby321]

The lawyer ( a Black man worked for a Large firm in Atlanta and He never worked for Enorn his from did very little work for them).

[Shermy]

Of course there has been crimes. Hundreds. The easiest to prove would be the post-subpoena shredding.

Whatever the special prosecutor law, I question why one would be needed. The politicians have hooked themselves to Enron, but I don't see a connection to Enron's fall. The special prosecutor would be for presidential or congressional misconduct, I believe, and perhaps someone can explain that. I would think this is an issue for state, and maybe federal district attorneys. Or the Securities and exchange Commission.

[dalebert]

I think you are right. I did hear one statment today on FOX that ENRON might not have committed crimes but what they did wasn't right. That seems like plenty enough to bash Bush with instead of having their candidates run against their apponents on the issues of their own districts.

[Eva]

The main reason that the liberals are crying for a special prosecutor is because the investigation would then be privateand they could make all the nasty innuendos that they pleased.

The justice department announced that they are investigating Enron back through 1999. The Democrats did not want the investigation to go back that far. I guess this is all backfiring on them.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Has there been a crime???????

Yes, if you saw Ernest Hollings today you witnessed a crime.

Just like the movie "Dumb and Dumber" was a crime.

[unamused]

...there will be no special prosecutor appointed by the Justice to investigate the Enron case.

Yeah, this month, but the impeachment is going to be high entertainment....

[Lunatic Fringe]

Good- the position of Special Prosecuter is bogus anyways. It is the duty and responsibility of CONGRESS to investigate potential crimes by the President.

Didn't we learn anything from Janet Reno?

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

I was listening to Jim Bohannon (or is it Jimbo Hannon?) talk about Enron and not one of his callers believe the dung flying from the demorat PR bunghole.

by the way, did I mention that the pats won last nights? woohoo!

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

I was listening to Jim Bohannon (or is it Jimbo Hannon?) talk about Enron and not one of his callers believe the dung flying from the demorat PR bunghole.

by the way, did I mention that the pats won last nights? woohoo!

[Jorge]

Fritz Hollings checks into nursing home for "jest a little tech of rehab".

They had to bring Fritz out of moth-balls to embarrass himself with that senile sounding "cash and carry" rant against the Bush admin.
Nobody could seem to figure out what exactly he was trying to say...

[RamsNo1]

Oh, boo-hoo. I feel sorry for old Fritz Hollings.

[let freedom sing]

[boltfromblue]

Did they bring him out as their 'fall guy' to go extreme, hoping some of it would stick in dumb people's minds, because they expect him to retire at the end of his term, anyway? Protecting their losses over such a ridiculous position because they would lose him anyway?