Posted on 01/11/2002 8:00:36 AM PST by DinkyDau
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.
The end of the title of this article should read "Plant Opening"
Our little find will make it into the mainstream media.....hahahaha!!!
This logic borders on Einstein! No wonder liberals can't chew gum and cross the street at the same time.
Related Article...
Clinton-Gore sales team eased Enron's path to success
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review; Published: Dec. 9, 2001
Dateline D.C.
Can you get this to Hugh Hewitt!
"Enron Corporation
Kenneth Lay, chairman and chief executive officer of the Enron Corporation, accompanied Secretary of Commerce Ronald Brown on the trade mission to India in January, 1995. In India, Enron signed a contract for a 2,000 megawatt power plant in Dahbol worth an estimated $400 million. Enron also won a contract to build a $920 million power plant on the West coast of India and a $1.1 billion contract for offshore gas and oil production.
Rodney L. Gray, chairman and chief executive officer of Enron International accompanied Brown on the trade mission to Russia in March and April of 1994.
In Russia, Enron signed a deal to develop a market for Russia gas in Europe. Enron is a natural gas conglomerate based in Houston, Texas.
During the 1991-92 election cycle, Enron gave $28,525 to the Democratic party while Brown served as the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Enron gave $42,000 to the Democratic party in the 1993-94 cycle. "
Want to bet this story will be dropped?
I bet the Pubbies will assist the Dims to squash this issue withthe criminal complicity that they did when the news broke about Suharto and the energy deals that had demonstrated evidence of kick backs to Clinton (a quid pro quo) while Ron Brown was still alive.
Watch.
Today, these two things have happened, worthy of the attention of the media elite.
1. Mary Matalin explained the innocence of Cheney's 2 meetings with Enron's Lay.
2. Drudge brings out this definitive Isikoff article.
The media knows Bush and Cheney have no evil connections to the Enron failure, corruption, greedy executives, etc. But they also know the Bush Administration can't use the "Clinton did it too" defense.
The Bush administration has to go on offense. They must take their message straight to the people. I think they know this.
Even though I am not happy at all with the administrations immigration policies. Specifically after 9/11
Listen would you have thought the dems would have mounted an attack(Daschle) on a very popular(87% approval rating) President....Nope!!
But he did..
I think what we are seeing is some Dem Senate staffer feeding a media buddy some info....and now this will TOUCH THEM ALL!!
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