Posted on 01/11/2002 7:20:07 AM PST by angkor
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Hey that was funny the first 980 times somebody came up with that zinger. You can call me names, if you like. You’re not very good at it though.
Conveniently, the statute has expired.
Its demise was trumpted by the liberal media and the Democratic party as the most wonderful event since Ellen came out. I would welcome one now, as all criminality signs point to Clinton, Gore, and Ron Brown.
Mr. Reno never appointed a special prosecuter regarding campaign finance crimes, espionage, technology transfers, etc. His failure was in direct conflict with the independent prosecuter law. Janet Reno was a criminal, like his boss.
It would appear in the case of Enron, you are very, very correct.
What innocent people?
And as far as wasting millions of taxpayers' money, Klintoon and his beastly wife did that for 8 years. By the way, they left the White House as millionaires, something they WERE NOT when they came in.
LOL!! Toooooooo funny!
Enron gave 667,000 dollars to Democrats in the last election cycle.
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-Lloyd Bensten, Clintons first treasury secretary was a recipient of Enrons largesse. At the time of his campaign for Senate, he received the second largest donation from Enron according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
-Robert Rubin, Benstens successor, was involved with Enron while he worked as an investment banker Goldman & Sachs. Clinton first hired Rubin to head his National Economic Council. Soon afterwards, Rubin wrote on Goldman Sachs stationery to former clients, including Enron, in which he ''looked forward to continuing to work with you in my new capacity.''
-In Aug. 1993, McLarty arranged an invitation for Lay to play golf with Clinton in Vail, Colorado. This date irritated Oscar White, chief executive of Coastal, another natural gas company that had helped the Clinton election campaign raise funding. These connections to the Democratic administration have helped Enron considerably -Ken Silverstein Counterpunch
-Clinton officials publicly helped Enron win the contract in India as well as in Indonesia. Enron had received U.S. government funds to build power plants in China, the Philippines and Turkey. Enron also won contracts in Pakistan and Russia while accompanying senior U.S. government officials on state trips. In June 1996, four days before India granted final approval to Enron's project, Lay's company gave $100,000 to the DNC.
-According to the Houston Chronicle, Enron got permission to build a pipeline from Mozambique to South Africa after National Security Adviser Anthony Lake threatened to withhold aid to Mozambique if it didnt approve the project.
-The bulk of Enron's alleged chicanery had to have happened during the Clinton administration.
- Lee. P Brown (D) of Houston received $250,000 just before Enron filed Chapter 11. Enron campaigned against the conservative candidate for mayor.
-Kenneth Lay hired the firm of Clinton's former chief of staff Mack McLarty.
-The Center for Responsive Politics lists Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer of New York, John Breaux of Louisiana, and Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico--chair of the Senate Energy Committee--among the top beneficiaries of Enron's political donations
-Kenneth Lay retained as his top D.C. lobbyist Linda Robertson, a Democrat who worked for the Clinton Treasury Department.
-Dynegy greased Henry Waxman's palms with thousands of dollars.
-Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee received three checks from the Houston-based energy and trading giant totaling $100,000. Karen Denne, an Enron spokeswoman, said the company had a record of two checks written to the committee -- dated Sept. 24 and Nov. 2
- No. 20 on the Enron money list since 1989 is the Senate's leading Democrat, Tom Daschle of South Dakota.
-Enron was apparently a big backer of the Kyoto Treaty .
Only things that ever change are the faces. Now its Mr. Bush who is running interference for the Klintoon criminal mob machine with more unlawful EOs.
Like your screen name ... its in the (bloody, booty) bag.
In the last two years, Enron has received the US government funds to build power plants in China, the Philippines and Turkey. Enron also won contracts in Pakistan and Russia while accompanying senior US government officials on state trips.
Favours have not come cheap. Enron Corp has spent a sum in excess of $ 1.6 million for lobbying expenditure. This is based on data complied in 1998 by the Center for Responsive Politics, using lobby disclosure reports and amendments filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995.
Posted on 1/10/02 5:30 PM Eastern by Liz
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.
ENRON gave Clinton 100,000.00 ... and he gave them a couple billion dollar job (and a few Ron Brown plane flights) in India. Not a bad return-on-investment.
Boeing bought the Clinton White for a couple hundred thousand dollar (the going rate - so did Sun and Oracle when they "bought" the Microsoft lawsuit by paying for Clinton re-election....and the trial Lawyers when HTEY wined and dined Clinton ....) Clinton jumped promptly per Boeing request and got his buddies the Chinese to buy a few jets.
ENRON supposedly "bought" the White House for Bush (only in the minds of your media liars) .... Planned Parenthood gave 18 million to the Clintons in return for buying their support for abortions!)
Now, what did Bush's White House do when ENRON went whining for a bailout ... like Chrysler, McDonnel-Douglas, or the UAW in times past?
BUSH TURNED ENRON DOWN! No bailout ... He demanded an investigation.
You may be right. Though I voted for and do like our President, there are many things that he has done that I don't agree with. However, I would vote for him again and again and again.
Like your screen name ... its in the (bloody, booty) bag.
Thank you. When I signed up on FR during last year's election, I was so confident that Bush would win the presidency that I told friends and family not to worry because "itsinthebag".
Yet another Clinton scandal is bubbling up to the surface.
That's right and Ron Brown was the one who negotiated that India power plant payoff. Like I keep saying, Ron Brown was at or near the center of most of the campaign finance scandals of the Clintons and DNC ... and when he threatened to reveal all their illegal activities in court in exchange for leniency for the crimes Pearson was about to indict him for, someone murdered him. Exhume and autopsy Brown's body and you'll probably find a bullet wound ... just like ALL the pathologists in the case now suspect. Now THAT would turn the Enron matter back on the democRATS, wouldn't it?
A bit more involved than just 'playing golf'
So far all Enron has done is call members of the Bush Administration (and been told to go away). But then the Left is so corrupt that they just can't believe that anyone would be able to say no to a bribe since the Left can't.
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Not at all. Given the fact that Enron was obviously lining the pockets of over half of Congress, it's reasonable to assume that the sitting Senator from Missouri was also a recipient. The Widow Carnahan shows up on this list too so clearly they were playing both sides.
All this proves to me is that Ashcroft has more ethics in his left nut than Janet Reno had in her whole shaking body.
Really, Miss Intemporate, if you're going to hurl garbage at this level, you're not going to last long - AGAIN.
I suspect Starr was controlled by the Clintons ... after all, he was #2 man (after Fiske) on the list of special prosecutor candidates suggested by Clinton. He kept the focus on SEX while at the same time ignoring or covering up numerous crimes in Filegate and the death of Foster.
Did you know that YEARS after Filegate ... YEARS after Starr told the public that the files were illegal for the Whitehouse to have ... YEARS after Starr told the public that the files had been returned ... YEARS later, Ray admitted that the files were STILL in the Whitehouse under Clinton's control? The fact is that Starr allowed those ILLEGAL files to remain in the hands of the Clintons so they could be used to BLACKMAIL both Republican and Democrats when need be. Thanks to Starr we STILL don't know how many files were taken and we STILL don't know whether the material on those files is STILL ILLEGALLY on DNC databases.
Did you know that Starr NEVER responded to the questions Barr asked him about the Foster investigation? Starr told the public that his investigators ALL agreed it was a suicide but NOW we know that isn't true. Starr FABRICATED an oven mitt in the car of Foster to explain why the gun had no fingerprints on it. Starr simply IGNORED all the other questions (HUNDREDS) that were asked about the evidence in the crime. Visit FBI-COVERUP.COM and see for yourself why Starr was ANYTHING but an HONEST investigator.
Furthermore, Starr did NOT investigate many other serious allegations against Clinton and the DNC. There was NO investigation of the suspicious death of Ron Brown. Do you think the Monica revelation just "happened" at the same moment MILITARY whistleblowers revealed suspicious facts about the death of Ron Brown? Is is just coincidence that the Starr investigation was about wind down when Monica became known? Or was it because they needed something to keep the black community and certain journalists from focusing the nation's eyes (as they were starting to do) on the military pathologists who were saying that Ron Brown appeared to have a bullet wound in his head and should have been autopsied? I think the truth is that STARR "discovered" Monica to keep the public eye focused on the "dress" to keep the public from asking questions about Ron Brown. Clinton knew that he could beat the Monica charge in the press and Congress. He knew that if the Brown investigation expanded he'd be facing a court of law. So he chose the lessor of two evils.
Also, Chinagate was NOT an issue at all in impeachment ... although it should have been. Emailgate has YET to be explored with any HONEST investigation (save Judicial Watch's). So your statement that its all been investigated is demonstrably UNTRUE. Go read the Judicial Watch submittal during the impeachment which gives a hint at the true scope of Clinton's crimes.
And, finally, the impeachment was not about CONSENSUAL SEX, it was about LYING UNDER OATH IN A SEXUAL HARASSMENT CASE. It was about OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE. It was about INTIMIDATION OF WITNESSES. And guess what, even if the democRATS in the Senate saw fit to VIOLATE the oath they took and give Clinton a pass (some of them, like Byrd, even stated publically that Clinton did what was charged and what was charged WAS impeachable but STILL they voted NOT GUILTY), the courts STILL found Clinton GUILTY AS CHARGED ... that's one reason he lost his law license.
Now whether Bush and company are covering up something, I haven't yet decided. I'm skeptical but open minded. But don't you try to rewrite history regarding Clinton. He was one of the most despicable President's in History and he was surrounded by equally despicable sycophants. Bush and his people TOWER over Clinton and his.
Pssst. Your Freudian slip is showing.
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