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To: PogySailor
The link in Post 2 sends you to an article that is just a bash of the Republicans, with a few Dems tossed in to gain the appearance of evenhandedness. It's "comprensive" history of Enron's growth omitted ANY ties to the Clinton Whitehouse, when the company went from 480th to 7th on Fortune's list of most successful companies. Neither Clinton or Ron Brown are talked about.
3 posted on 02/08/2002 3:54:30 AM PST by ArtDodger
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To: ArtDodger
No mention of the India power plant deal either. From a 1997 Time magazine article:

(TIME, September 1) -- For a man who had supposedly vanished from the corridors of power, MACK MCLARTY was the man to see in 1996. BILL CLINTON's former chief of staff, now a White House counselor tucked away in the basement, provided assistance to businessmen who ponied up $1.5 million for the Democrats in the last election. On Nov. 22, 1995, for example, Clinton scrawled an FYI note to McLarty, enclosing a newspaper article on Enron Corp. and the vicissitudes of its $3 billion power-plant project in India. McLarty then reached out to Enron's chairman, KEN LAY, and over the next nine months closely monitored the project with the U.S. ambassador to New Delhi, keeping Lay informed of the Administration's efforts, according to White House documents reviewed by TIME. In June 1996, four days before India granted final approval to Enron's project, Lay's company gave $100,000 to the President's party. Enron denies that its gift was repayment for Clinton's attention, and White House special counsel LANNY DAVIS says McLarty acted out of concern for a major U.S. investment overseas.

4 posted on 02/08/2002 4:12:30 AM PST by PogySailor
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