[Utah Girl]

Just a few lies in this piece, but who's counting?

[spqrzilla9]

Janet Reno's brother is who I always go to for unbiased reporting on the Bush administration.

Uh, not.

[Wyatt's Torch]

Even if the story is 100% true, what laws were broken? Is he really saying, "Enron had unprecedented access to White House officials to influence policy beneficial to the company goal of becomming the worlds largest company. As a result, they went bankrupt." I thought the objective of "buying influence" is to become successful not become a spectacular failure....great logic Robert.

[Holden Magroin]

Robert Reno IS Janet Reno's brother.

[Pete]

You can email Robert Reno and tell him what you think. He is a NewsDay columnist.

[alloysteel]

Since when did the regime of the "Former Occupant of the Oval Office, 1993-2001" ever deny immediate and full welcome of the Enron officials to the White House? Obviously, a player as large as Enron has to have close access to the high seats of power, and the fact that Bush did contact them, when it became apparent he stood a very good chance of occupying the White House, was more an economic consideration than a political decision. Enron had seen what happens to corporations who did not play the butt-smooching game, and they did not want to be left on the outside. This strategy worked, for a while. But then the Democrats got pretty much turned out of office, and all the traps and landmines they laid began going off.

[jf55510]

Blah Blah Blah. Just Democrats still mad that they failed in their attempt to steal the election.

[kattracks]

With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

For the story behind the story...

Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2002 1:09 a.m. EST

Janet Reno Kin Outraged Over Bush-Enron Scandal

The brother of former Attorney General Janet Reno complained bitterly on Tuesday that President George Bush is escaping "deserved heat" for his ties to collapsed Texas-based energy giant Enron.

In his regular column for Newsday, Robert Reno decried what he said were "the Bush family's intimate connections to Enron [and] the company's vast contributions to Bush campaigns," saying "you need a crow bar to separate Enron's allegiance to both Bush administrations."

Protests that investigators haven't been tough enough on the White House are something new for Mr. Reno.

In contrast to his call for a tougher Enron probe, the Newsday columnist regularly defended his sister's decision not to appoint an independent counsel to probe the Clinton White House's Chinagate scandal.

But that was then, this is now.

And now - without identifying himself as the brother of a key Clinton Cabinet member or noting that his sister is running against first brother Jeb Bush for Florida governor - Robert Reno says the Bush family's ties to Enron deserve far more scrutiny.

"It's as if Bush has been inoculated with an immunity no known virus can invade," he fumed.

"Only in the Bush-can-do-no-wrong atmosphere of current Washington does such a scandal resist the sort of smelly exposure and inquiry that accompanied every misjudgment of the eight years of Bill Clinton."

Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:
Bush Administration
Clinton Scandals

[dalebert]

I think we should freep them with a lot of dem connections to Enron.

[oldvike]

Where the hell was all this outrage in the press when Clinton was selling nuclear secrets to the Chicoms? Sheesssshhhh!

[denydenydeny]

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[RichInOC]

If my sister had been Bubba Hump's attorney general and let him get away with as many unsavory things as Janet did, I don't think I'd say boo about Enron. I'd be ashamed to.

[Lazamataz]

Every word Robert Reno is a frustrated, spittle-covered lie, including 'and' and 'the'.

[grania]

The real story that interests people here is that top officials, who always had huge salaries, walk away with giant bonuses while the little guys lose their jobs and their life savings.

The fact that Enron officials met with Cheney and other White House officials isn't a scandal...they didn't save the company when it was on its way out. The only problem I can see is that until recently GWB has advocated that workers should be allowed to put a portion of Social Security money in the stock market to assure a financially secure retirement...that is not a plan when the big guys walk away with millions.

It isn't a Republican or Democratic issue...it's more of a populist issue that the powers that be just don't play by the rules anymore.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Personally, I don't care if Enron executives and "administration official" are blood relatives. Show me the quid pro quo!

[ServesURight]

Janet Reno's brother

LOL! Imagine being a sibling to her!!

[poorman]

The liberals always forget to mention that Enron gave as much or more to the Democrats as they did to the Republicans.

[Richard Axtell]

Boy Reno should keep his day job, as an Andy Richter look-alike.

[mystery-ak]

Are you sure Robert/Janet are not the same person....have they ever been seen together in public?

[deport]

The Washington Post reports that Vice President Dick Cheney or his aides found time to meet with Enron officials on six occasions in 2001.

Yep the meetings..... Gosh you'd have thought they were like the coffees and Lincoln Bedroom things...... But the following is waltzing in and out of the Whitehouse.......

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Details Cheney-Enron Meetings

Matalin disputed claims that the administration had tried to hide its meetings with Enron executives, explaining, "Dick Cheney said in May on PBS that he had met with (Enron CEO) Ken Lay and had a 20-minute meeting with him."

"I remember that meeting very well," the senior White House advisor told Imus. "(Lay) got into the specifics of electricity competition and Cheney's not an expert on that and (Lay) was deferred to the staff. The subsequent meetings were not with the (Energy) Task Force or any Cabinet members - (it was) Enron staff guys with our staff guys.".....

One of the "so-called meetings," said Matalin, "was our head staff guy was giving a presentation to 25 companies and an Enron representative was there. Another so-called meeting was two guys came to talk to the staff about the progress of the energy report and the Enron guy never said anything.

Matalin said Cheney himself had only met with Mr. Lay twice. "He met with him, as he said on PBS, once on April 17 for 20 minutes. And then in June, he and I and the chief of staff, Scooter Libby.... went to an American Enterprise Institute world forum in Beaver Creek. It was one of these think tank things and there were 600 people there and Ken Lay was there.

"So we put that down as a meeting, which I think hardly qualifies," Matalin said. "I think we over-disclosed here."

On the question on whether contacts between Enron and Bush officials in the end benefited the energy giant, Matalin noted that the Bush-Cheney energy plan contained 178 recommendations to improve U.S. energy production and "not one - nada, zip, zero - was in there for Enron or Ken Lay."

. Yep them meetings were very productive for Enron... drove them right into bankruptcy....