Posted on 07/15/2002 6:35:06 AM PDT by Buda
Look what we found
Newsweek, the civic minded muckraking news magazine owned by the Washington Post, which spent nine frenzied years exposing graft, greed and corruption in the White House during the 90's, goes balls-out once again in this week's issue. First up, Howard Fineman, the stalwart crime investigator who made his bones while cracking tough on the Clintons, turns his attention to the criminal past of George W Bush, specifically the rancid Harkin deal.
In Sticky Business, Newsweek's financial correspondent Allan Sloan - fresh from his knee-capping expose' of DNC head Terry McAuliffe's $18 million manipulation of bankrupt Global Crossing stock - reveals Vice President Cheney's own road to perdition. With help from Johnnie L. Roberts, Sloan extracts a startling admission from current Halliburton CEO David Lesar. During his own tenure as CEO, Cheney knew that projected future revenue was treated as an asset, and Cheney actually "signed Halliburton’s 1998 and 1999 financial statements." The FEC is still examining footnotes that explained the posting (were they in required 2 point type, or the elusive 1 point?), but Ay Carumba.
Jonathan Alter, with his national reputation for fairness, asks Whose Side Is Bush On? He's certainly not on the side of Joe twelve-pack. Whereas Franklin Roosevelt chose Joseph P. Kennedy to chair the newly created SEC, Bush's SEC head Harvey "you're no Joe Kennedy" Pitt has been on the job for eleven months and bad things are happening. Prick.
For dessert, Newsweek looses fearsome Eleanor Rodham Clift in "Democrats Good, Republicans Bad. Clift ponders the central issue. Can Democrats exact a measure of revenge for being painted as spineless, morally equivocating lap dogs to the Clinton White House? Did the greedy President and Vice President profit from their business transactions? Stay tuned.
Whereas Franklin Roosevelt chose Joseph P. Kennedy to chair the newly created SEC…
As if appointing a rum-running, rapist-rearing, daughter-lobotomizing sociopath was a good idea.
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