Video of Cheney extolling virtues of Arthur Andersen surfaces [Politics of Personal Destruction]

Associated Press ^ | 7-10-02 | LESLIE MILLER

[Oldeconomybuyer]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A 1996 promotional videotape has surfaced that features Dick Cheney praising Arthur Andersen LLP for going above and beyond routine audits for the company he ran for five years.

The oil services firm the vice president once headed, Halliburton Co., is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission for the way it accounted for cost overruns on construction jobs during Cheney's tenure. Cheney and the company were sued on Tuesday by a watchdog group alleging fraudulent accounting practices, a suit the White House dismissed as lacking merit.

[Republican Wildcat]

Why, how can that be? Larry Klayman said that he believed Carville was an "evil individual" at the March for Justice. Surely you jest. < / sarcasm >

[Dog]

You really have to wonder tho.....Carville and crew are political animals.....they don't panic.

This seems like someone is shooting a scatter gun...

Klayman files suit

Video of Cheney and Anderson

Ads appear attacking Bush .....done by Clinton cronies.

Something is up..

[Republican Wildcat]

"One of the things I like that they do for us is that, in effect, I get good advice, if you will, from their people based upon how we're doing business and how we're operating, over and above the, just sort of the normal by-the-books audit arrangement," said Cheney, who headed Halliburton from 1995 to 2000.

Scandalous. Cheney should be impeached immediately. These comments obviously indicate criminal behavior, and are certainly worthy of news headlines. < / sarcasm >

[McGavin999]

This won't hurt Cheney at all. AA was one of the biggest and most trusted auditing companies in the world. NOBODY would have guessed that they were less than honest. They had a sterling reputation. As a matter of fact, there were a lot of people at Anderson who are honest and trustworthy. Unfortunately, they got taken down right along with the scum.

[Jhoffa_]

I think it's a coordinated attack. A "conspiracy" in the truest sense.

The Senate and the SC hang in the balance, so I firmly believe they will pull out all the stops for this one.

Slander anyone, do anything they have to do just to get through the elections so Daschle can go back to his foot dragging and obstructing routine.

[McGavin999]

Something is up..

Yep, and I'll bet if you checked out their offices you'd probably find sand, and a vague whiff of oil.

[marajade]

Do you know when Cheney retired from Halliburton?

[marajade]

I bet the conviction of AA gets overturned... The judge pretty much admitted she was charting "new ground" when she ruled the jury didn't have to single out anyone there before finding them guilty...

[RoseofTexas]

GOSH!! How I wish the Bush administration would release some of the ORAL OFFICE tapes when bubba and monica did the willy thingy! THAT'LL SHUT THEM UP!

[Howlin]

July 2000.

[EternalVigilance]

This won't hurt Cheney at all. AA was one of the biggest and most trusted auditing companies in the world. NOBODY would have guessed that they were less than honest. They had a sterling reputation. As a matter of fact, there were a lot of people at Anderson who are honest and trustworthy. Unfortunately, they got taken down right along with the scum.

You hit the nail right on the head.

[marajade]

So all the fraud with Halliburton supposedly happened before two years from today? Okie dokie...

[Howlin]

Is this what you're looking for?

To: PhiKapMom; Miss Marple

I just read the 40+ page complaint which is on JW's website. There are two sets of Plaintiffs -- Stephen F. Stephens from Indiana and Lyle and Deanna Lionbarger from New Mexico. You have to get to paragraphs 102, 105 before they even mention what the Plaintiffs' claims are.

Stephens bought 500 shares of Halliburton stock on November 15, 2002 [??? is Miss Cleo his broker?] for $21.11 a share for a total cost of $10,685. The Lionbargers bought 100 shares for $12.22 on January 24, 2002 for a total costs of $1,222. [Halliburton stock is currently trading for about $14.00 a share.] They are each seeking $200,000 in puniive damages. They claim that Texas law applies.

They don't claim that they sold the stock for a lose, and of course the Lionbargers have a gain. I don't know how you can sue for your loses when you have a gain. Be interesting to see if they bought through a broker and if so what he has to say about this "fraud."

63 posted on 7/10/02 1:53 PM Eastern by Iwo Jima

[roses of sharon]

And Cheney and Bush went out and committed crimes, then RAN FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES! Right!

The Commie media must be destroyed, I have said for years, the silly Dems are not the enemy, propaganda and SLANDER by the liberal media is, they run this country.

They must be destroyed and discredited.

If Freepers can't do it, nobody can!

[TLBSHOW]

something is up a rat attack

[TLBSHOW]

this is all about a video from when? Gee whiz rats you are slipping.....lol

[Alas Babylon!]

I've been saying this for years. First, they ommitted reporting on Clinton's many scandels, and now with Bush in office they're SUDDENLY "investigative journalists" again, after an 8 year hiatus, right where they were under Reagan and Bush I.

I listen to NBC nightly news on the radio (the station broadcasts the televison station's audio) and they're absolutely rabid about Bush's scandels vis-a-vis Harkin and now today on Cheney. You'd think the two just murdered someone in cold blood. The report by David Gregory failed to say that the document Bush filed late was the after sale, not the intent & request to sell, and Gregory didn't tell us that Bush needed the money to buy the Texas Rangers, implying that he sold short to avoid loses he knew were forthcoming. And he certainly didn't say Harkin tanked months after Bush sold.

Big media is biased. They give us proof every time they open their pie-holes.

[jumpstartme]

Perhaps oil is in the air. It seems that Cheney wasn't the only one singing praise on Andersen.

Why, until the SHTF this spring, Al Gore sponsor Occidental Petroleum had as their financial auditor, one Arthur Andersen.

"Occidental Appoints KPMG Auditor

LOS ANGELES, March 22, 2002 -- Occidental Petroleum Corporation (NYSE:OXY) today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed KPMG as the company's independent auditor for 2002, replacing Arthur Andersen, LLP. Dr. Ray R. Irani, chairman and chief executive officer of Occidental, said, "The Andersen team that has served Occidental provided outstanding audit services and met our high standards during the course of a long and highly professional relationship."

Occidental Petroleum Corporation is one of the world's largest independent oil and natural gas exploration and production companies with operations concentrated in the United States, the Middle East and Latin America. Through its chemical subsidiary, OxyChem, Occidental also is a leading North American manufacturer and marketer of basic chemicals and certain performance chemicals. In 2001, Occidental reported net income of approximately $1.2 billion on net sales of $14 billion.

As usual, the dims are hypocrits in search of an audience. They're pissing me off.