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Liberals Send Threatening E-Mails to Enron Journalists - 'Dig Harder' or else
Short Cuts Morning Update ^ | January 11, 2001 | L Dotter's Staff Reporters

Posted on 01/11/2002 6:27:20 AM PST by codebreaker

Wishing won't make it so

The Dems are such neophytes at whipping up public frenzy to tie Bush to the Enron collapse they have started an E-Mail campaign pleading (some say threatening) journalists to dig harder.

Don Van Atta Jr., the New York Times go-to guy for scandal connect-the-dot stories must have been on their list.

He's on the case already but is still forced to add the following sentence: "Although no one has suggested Bush has done anything wrong."

Stay Tuned.

Enron boredom looms.


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To: deport
Maybe we should send them the google website since they are too lazy to look for it. Personally I was shocked when I put in Clinton/Enron to see how much came up!
21 posted on 01/11/2002 6:55:08 AM PST by PhiKapMom
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To: AmericanInTokyo
We did the same thing during Clinton's time on Pardongate, Monicagate, Chinagate, Whitewater, for the press to "dig harder". Guess it's the GOP's turn in the barrel.....

What are you saying!! There were REAL issues and charges related to the Clinton's and the liberal media would not report it. This Enron stuff is not to be compared with what happened with Clinton.

22 posted on 01/11/2002 6:56:54 AM PST by SirChas
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To: holden
Send your Democrat-voting friends to FR for insightful articles, columns and discussion on all the news!

...plus unlimited knee-jerk insults to themselves, their family, faith and friends.

No thanks. I'd rather not.

23 posted on 01/11/2002 6:58:10 AM PST by tangerine
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To: AmericanInTokyo
Looks like you need some reading! Try this link: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/datelinedc/s_7142.html

Just maybe you all will get what you wish for, but you may not like it!

24 posted on 01/11/2002 6:59:24 AM PST by PhiKapMom
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To: codebreaker
The Dems are such neophytes at whipping up public frenzy to tie Bush to the Enron collapse they have started an E-Mail campaign pleading (some say threatening) journalists to dig harder.

Have you any evidence of this campaign? Especially, have you any evidence of a campaign of sending threatening emails to journalists? If so, this would be a scandal in and of itself!

If not, it's just a rumor. Move along...

25 posted on 01/11/2002 7:00:53 AM PST by TwakeIDFins
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To: codebreaker
From December 9, 2001 post by Liz:

BACKSTORY: Clinton-Gore, Ron Brown, Lippo, PLA (Enron's path to success) Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | Sunday Dec. 9, 2001 | DC-based British journalist and political observer

Posted on 1/10/02 2:30 PM Pacific by Liz

WASHINGTON - "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall." SNIP--- Enron had the best brains that money could buy, but gave the word "ethics" a whole new meaning. The cowboys of Dumpty Enron talked up a storm about ethics; but only a few at the top realized that "ethics" was an acronym for "Enron thinks how income can (be) stolen."

That's a stretch; but look at their 1994 sales team - Clinton, Gore and the late Ron Brown - a trio unlimited and uncontrolled in their cunning and greed.

In what seems to be eons ago, before Gov. Bill Clinton became president, the late, much loved and little lamented Ron Brown was Clinton's good friend and a power broker in the National Democratic Party. Ron Brown had a friend, a congressman from Houston, the late Mickey Leland, who died in 1989. Until his passing, Leland was a shining light in the Congressional Black Caucus and a dedicated socialist, who was one of the Institute for Policy Studies' delights.

From 1984, when Enron was conceived, Brown and Leland were there snapping up unconsidered trifles of money for use in their campaigns against the free market. Mickey was able to ease a lot of Enron's early problems through the Houston City Council by playing his "equal opportunity card." He had also become an African expert who initially took the Enron message to that continent, a chore that was taken on by Ron Brown, Clinton's secretary of commerce, before the latter met his untimely death in a highly controversial plane crash in Croatia. (Untimely, because had Secretary Brown lived, he would have faced multiple criminal indictments that could have precipitated an even earlier fall for Bill Clinton and his gang.)

Now we get to that old puzzle about chickens and eggs, and what came first! Ron Brown, Al Gore and Bill Clinton introduced Enron to market managers in Russia, China, Indonesia and India. In India, Enron quickly became involved in one of that country's most massive corruption investigations, contracts were canceled and Enron was out.

On the other hand, Enron introduced the Clinton team to Lippo Industries and thence to China's People's Liberation Army (a wonderful source of political cash), to John Huang, another good provider and to nameless, numberless Arabs who never arrived with empty pockets. If we look at a list of those attending coffee klatches at the White House, we can learn why a storm of doubtful deals enabled Enron to quickly control one-quarter of the world's electricity and natural gas. But, that wasn't enough. The ever-so-greedy Dumpty moved in to water deals in Massachusetts and Europe, paper mills in Canada, gas pipe lines throughout the world, fiber optics, television, mutual funds and information gathering. In turn, that led to risk analysis, a name that those clever Texans quickly changed to "reward realization!"

The rewards were good! Enron, with sales assistance from Tony Lake, then Clinton's national security adviser, persuaded the impoverished, war-torn country of Mozambique to sign a $770 million electric power contract. Mozambique signed because Tony's salesmanship was persuasive. If the Mozambicans didn't sign, he indicated that their congressionally approved $44 million U.S. aid payment would never be made.

And there was the Croatian caper. In the days when Franjo Tudjman was Croatia's dictator and pretending to be both a reformed communist and best friend of America in the Balkans, poor Franjo had a problem. He and some of his very best friends were wanted as war criminals by the Hague's International Court of Justice. Enron wanted a power contract with Croatia. Enron offered a deal to Tudjman. Sign up with us and we will use our gang in Washington to make sure you and your friends don't go to jail.

Tudjman signed. Enron made a heap of money. Nobody went to jail. Everyone was happy - until Tudjman died of cancer. Then the lid was off, his Croatian Democratic Union was defeated and the new boys in power in Zagreb could not believe how much of their budget went to pay the electricity bills from Enron.

Somebody - probably another Dr. Spock child eager to tell on his peers - prattled! Under quiet pressure from the Croats, another deal was made and a couple of guys were charged as war criminals. Electricity costs went down (but not to the consumers) and as a part of the deal nobody talked, except about the wonderful vacations that they were enjoying in the Caribbean.

This could be called a "cautionary tale." There are two cautions. The first: Beware of the Spock babies now that they are nearing retirement and losing whatever sense they had. The second: Investigators all, beware, as you look into the depths and shallows of Enron you may, if you are truly unlucky, find the truth. And, if you do, these truths won't make you free, just well informed.

"Dateline D.C." is written by a Washington, D.C.-based British journalist and political observer.

26 posted on 01/11/2002 7:01:38 AM PST by Attillathehon
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To: codebreaker
This is actually good news! The sooner any bad news or anything damaging is out on the table the sooner the story goes away. If Bush hasn't anything to hide (my belief), then he ought to put everything on the table, as should Cheney, and let the chips fall where they may. Where politicians ALWAYS go wrong is through cover-ups and dribbling out information a little at a time. Put it like this. If Clinton had revealed everything at once he might (but probably not) have lost the presidency but his legacy would have been a darn sight better than it has turned out to be. Bush isn't going to be ousted but it is critical anything that can hurt him come out immediately. If there is nothing there, the story dies. Eventually the Enron executives go to prison where they belong and their assets seized then we can get back to other matters.
27 posted on 01/11/2002 7:02:33 AM PST by RichardW
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To: holden
bttt
28 posted on 01/11/2002 7:03:29 AM PST by timestax
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To: DJ88
At least President Bush answers his own questions and isn't hiding behind a bunch of crooked lawyers.

Even if Billary answered their own questions, we'd still be hearing it from a couple of crooked lawyers!

29 posted on 01/11/2002 7:06:02 AM PST by weegee
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To: Numbers Guy; DJ88
A few that have taken money from Enron......


30 posted on 01/11/2002 7:06:11 AM PST by deport
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To: skeeter
I think the mainstream media might be forced to give the Hillary Vote Scam story time because of the fact that she is a sitting NY Senator and Presidential candidate for 2004.
31 posted on 01/11/2002 7:08:46 AM PST by codebreaker
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To: cousair
Don't forget Ann Richards.
32 posted on 01/11/2002 7:09:53 AM PST by ottersnot
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To: codebreaker
FLASHBACK: CLINTON OFFICIAL MET WITH ENRON CHAIRMAN;

$100,000 CASH DONATION TO DEMOCRATS TIMED TO PLANT APPROVAL

TIME MAGAZINE

SEPTEMBER 1, 1997

On Nov. 22, 1995 President Clinton scrawled an FYI note to chief of staff Mack 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 magazine.

In June 1996, four days before India granted final approval to Enron's controversial $3 billion power-plant project, Enron's gave $100,000 to President Clinton'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, TIME's Michael Weisskopf reported.

DRUDGE NOTE: McLarty was later hired by Enron. Lay also played golf with President Bill Clinton and slept in the Clinton White House. A master of political manipulation of both parties, Lay served as an adviser to the Clinton White House on energy issues. The Clinton administration, in turn, helped Enron get a contract for a gas pipeline in Mozambique and other projects, according to reports.

33 posted on 01/11/2002 7:09:59 AM PST by dhfnc
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To: AmericanInTokyo
I don't remember anyone on Whitewater threatening to bring out personal information against reporters to break the story.

Remember the Democrats were going to do just that before Bob Beckel got called on the carpet in the Florida election crisis.

34 posted on 01/11/2002 7:11:43 AM PST by codebreaker
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To: dead
Yuck! LMAO
35 posted on 01/11/2002 7:12:52 AM PST by AAABEST
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To: Numbers Guy
I agree with the others who say that the lefties better be careful; this one may end up blowing up in their faces. Far too many Democrats have taken money from Enron and done favors for Enron. Bush hasn't been in office long enough to have really done anything for them.
No lie is unsavory enough for a Crat to refuse. The end always justifies the means, and they means
to get the negative jive out regardless if it's true or not. Plays right into the class warfare were gonna see
come October, November.
36 posted on 01/11/2002 7:13:09 AM PST by ottersnot
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To: RichardW
It sounds to me like the Democrats are out of ammo on this issue and need to drum up more charges.
37 posted on 01/11/2002 7:14:01 AM PST by codebreaker
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To: AmericanInTokyo
We did the same thing during Clinton's time on Pardongate, Monicagate, Chinagate, Whitewater, for the press to "dig harder". Guess it's the GOP's turn in the barrel.....

GOP's turn in the barrel? ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The clanging sound you hear is the Democrats with shovels hitting granite after digging themselves into a hole. Drudge current headline story follows.

FLASHBACK: CLINTON OFFICIAL MET WITH ENRON CHAIRMAN;
$100,000 CASH DONATION TO DEMOCRATS TIMED TO PLANT APPROVAL TIME MAGAZINE
SEPTEMBER 1, 1997

On Nov. 22, 1995 President Clinton scrawled an FYI note to chief of staff Mack 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 magazine.

In June 1996, four days before India granted final approval to Enron's controversial $3 billion power-plant project, Enron's gave $100,000 to President Clinton'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, TIME's Michael Weisskopf reported.

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DRUDGE NOTE: McLarty was later hired by Enron. Lay also played golf with President Bill Clinton and slept in the Clinton White House. A master of political manipulation of both parties, Lay served as an adviser to the Clinton White House on energy issues. The Clinton administration, in turn, helped Enron get a contract for a gas pipeline in Mozambique and other projects, according to reports.

END

38 posted on 01/11/2002 7:15:04 AM PST by hflynn
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To: codebreaker
Dig Harder of Else

Sounds like a great idea to me.

When any significant corporation in the United States is in trouble, they ALWAYS contact people in whatever administration may be in power at the time. What matters is how the administration responds. Bush wins this part of the investigation hands down.

NOW FOR THE GOOD PART: Enron had extensive contacts with the Clinton administration, many of which are already known to have led to corrupt results. You do not even have to dig very hard to find it: Check Enron's numerous activities outside the United States, the way the Clinton administration helped, and the results.

So I say: Dig Harder!!!! Bring it ON!!!!!!

39 posted on 01/11/2002 7:15:08 AM PST by EternalHope
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To: ottersnot
I doubt the liberals can keep this scandal stuff going on during a war, the polls are trending towards the GOP in the House and Senate and I think this Enron deal was timed to stop Bush's momentum.

There will have to be a lot more relevations for this to be an issue in September-October.

40 posted on 01/11/2002 7:16:42 AM PST by codebreaker
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