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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."
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We tried to get hold of energy policy nightmare scenarios going on all over the west, we called in experts, some of whom were crooks... expert sources for information none-the-less. Talking to them. Them donating money to campaigns. Meaningless.
Members of the RENO family business calling Bush's kettle black, PRICELESS.
If davis and company had not tried to create an energy crisis policy platform to run on for dems in the west, this would not have ever happened in my view.
Dirty pool is going on.