Posted on 01/14/2002 8:50:45 AM PST by d14truth
PBS Frontline: Ken Lay Interview
Excerpt from a good, and lengthy, interview--
"It isn't true that you're the closet secretary of energy?"
"I am not the closet anything. ... This administration has some very, very capable people, particularly in the energy area, starting with the secretary of energy but also people like Dick Cheney and Don Evans as well as the president himself. ..."
"When we interviewed Vice President Cheney, I asked him, "Had you met with any CEOs of any energy companies in the preparation of a national energy policy?"
"... Over the years, Vice President Cheney and I have worked on different issues together. We also served on the American Enterprise board of directors for several years, and of course that institute takes up many energy, natural resource and other issues. And I'm flattered that he decided to meet with me and at least hear me out as to some of the things that I thought were pretty important that should be considered for his report."
"You understand when people read this in the newspaper ..."
"I think you need to keep in mind also, for better or for worse, we had a lot of access in the Clinton administration. Certainly [former Secretary of Energy Bill] Richardson called on me and Enron on a number of occasions to at least discuss different energy matters, [I] was asked a few times even by then-Chief of Staff Mack McLarty about various energy matters, and [former Treasury Secretary Robert] Rubin on other matters. As a major energy company in the country doing a lot of international business too, we have a lot of reason to, in fact, talk with different officials in our government just like they have many reasons to talk with us."
Lockyear had made a comment ( when he and Davis were attcking the Texas Energy companies as serious criminals and price gougers ) that what Lay needed was a jail cell with a guy named Spike who would say...... Glad to see you, now what I need is some .... loving.
Some one else perhaps remebers the quote better than I. --help!
If only certain 'media types' would be as insightful as you are. Thanks.
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