FLASHBACK: CLINTON OFFICIAL MET WITH ENRON CHAIRMAN; $100,000 CASH DONATION TO DEMOCRATS TIMED TO PL

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[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.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Before this is all over your Rats will be proof positive of the old chinese proverb.

Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[YaYa123]

Big oops...it was TIME's Michael Weisskopf , not Isikoff. (I hate it when I mess up like that!!! )

[Howlin]

I have to picture them in my mind to keep them straight!

[Liz]

There is no end to the conniving Clinton's depravity.

[ctonious]

These Dem Dipwads are so desperate for anything to use against Bush that next..they'll charge that he took lobbying money from Enron and then DID NOTHING FOR THEM!!!

You absolutely cannot parody the Democrats. I post this sarcastic remark, step out for half an hour, and come back to find out that Henry Waxman (D) has actually just made this accusation!

[mountaineer]

Can you believe that? Waxman faults Bush for not helping Enron, because the "little people" - the ones who, for reasons unknown, put all their 401(k) eggs in one basket - got hurt. Good grief, up is down and green is yellow in the world of the Democrats.

[Samizdat]

If Republicans really want to shut the filthy left wing pieholes, they should dig up Vince Foster and see about that neck wound. I think that would shut everybody up.