Crooks in the White House

New York Press ^ | July 2, 2002 | Alexander Cockburn

[Elkiejg]

Slyfox - I really like the way you posted the Clinton Crimes and I intend to send it to this scum in just this fashion - IF I can find an email address for him!! Thanks.

[Elkiejg]

DONE!! If you want to let this scum know what you think - here's his email address: mugger@nypress.com

[NEPA]

Sure, this is old stuff, just like Whitewater. Now it’s spring 1990... The sale falls under the SEC’s insider stock sale rule requiring almost immediate formal notice, but Bush does not report the sale until seven months later.

While in office presidents don't have direct control over much of their finances. Government paid accountants and/or lawyers would be responsible for this screw up (if it's even true).

[Slyfox]

Hmmm, I wonder if Old Slick would recognize any of the crimes?

[rudypoot]

"...where he put the agency in snooze mode amid a ripening cloud of scandal involving the biggest names in corporate America."

Notice he doesn't mention how far back these accounting scandels date. And what exactly was the head of the SEC doing when Clinton was president? Probably pulling a Janet Reno-esque "won't investigate because we are either crooks ourselves or incompetent."

" Of course, anyone with a memory longer than the day before yesterday would have..."

But apparently this author's memory doesn't go back any further than January 2001.

[john in missouri]

Wow! I'm in awe of such impartial reporting. BTW Could someone explain to me if Bush is "Dumbo" and yet his SATs were higher than Gore's, what does that make Gore?

Elephant poop?

[Steve_Seattle]

As I recall, the issue with Halliburton was its decision to book $100 million dollars of disputed revenues, which represented a change in their previous policy of not reporting disputed items as revenues. But I have never seen whether the hundred million represented the entire disputed amount or merely their estimate of the portion of the disputed amount that they thought they would recover. That fact is important in determining whether the booking was legitimate.

[Steve_Seattle]

"put the agency in snooze mode . . . but even Pitt couldn't choke off the investigation"

I wonder what facts Cockburn has to support these statements suggesting that Pitt tried to stop the investigation? My sh*t detector is flashing, because despite the alleged "snooze mode" the investigation went forward.

[dighton]

If you want to let this scum know what you think - here's his email address: mugger@nypress.com

That email address is not Cockburn's. It belongs to Russ Smith (a/k/a Mugger), the editor-in-chief, who writes good columns.

Cockburn is one of many contributing writers: see masthead. Please keep that in mind if dropping Russ Smith a note.

[aculeus]

Like father like son: This is from a Brit web site on Daddy Claude:

Quote

Claude Cockburn, the son of a diplomat, was born in China in 1904. After obtaining a degree from Oxford University he became a journalist with The Times. He worked as a foreign correspondent in Germany and the United States before resigning in 1933 to start up his own journal, The Week.

Using the name Frank Pitcairn, Cockburn also contributed to the Daily Worker. In 1936 Harry Pollitt, the General Secretary of the Communist Party, asked him to cover the Spanish Civil War for the newspaper. When he arrived in Spain he joined the Fifth Regiment so that he could report the war as an ordinary soldier. While in Spain he published Reporter in Spain.

Cockburn was attacked by George Orwell in his book Homage to Catalonia (1938). In the book he accused Cockburn of being under the control of the Communist Party. Orwell was particularly critical of the way Cockburn reported the May Riots in Barcelona.

Unquote.

Daddy Claude came "this close" to arrest for treason to the crown. Loyal Stalinist that he was, when Joe and Adolf suddenly became partners Claude became pro-Nazi. His neck was saved when Hitler invaded the USSR.

Claude appears in a cameo role in many of the books written about Philby and the other British traitors. He was a thoroughly obnoxious person with an equally loathesome son who was BTW the model for the drunk British journalist in Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities.

[aculeus]

NY Press publishes lots of readers letters. Take your time and write something you would like to read in next week's edition.

dighton is right. In fact the editor has criticized Cockburn in his own column and I wouldn't be surprised if he does the same next week.

Taki -- very conservative -- is another NYP columnist.

[Orual]

Alexander Cockburn

One can only hope and pray.

[Quilla]

I saw the play on words in this author's name at the get-go, but I couldn't come up with anything clever enough to post. You certainly did. Bravo.

[steve-b]

Crooks in the White House

You're a year and a half late, Cocky.

[mountaineer]

The writer should check out the FEC database before puking this stuff onto the computer screen. The current CEO of WorldCom gave tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to .... drumroll .... Democrats. Exclusively. The former CEO gave thousands to politicians on both sides - including the same Dem senators as the current CEO (apparently they were hoping for some kind of favorable action on the part of Sen. Leahy and former Sen. Kerrey) but not a dime to George W. Bush. Oh, says Emily Litella, never mind.

[Wondervixen]

>>Hmmm, I wonder if Old Slick would recognize any of the crimes?

Depends on what the definition of if is.