No Special Prosecutor Will Be Appointed On Enron Case

CNN and CNBC Financial Network ^ | February 4, 2002 | Wolf Blitzer

[codebreaker]

CNN just announced following up on an ealier report on CNBC that there will be no special prosecutor appointed by the Justice to investigate the Enron case.

The liberals on television were then screaming that the current man in charge of the investigation after Ashcroft recused himself worked in Houston as a lawyer with some of the principals involved here.

[BeAChooser]

Didn't we learn anything from Janet Reno?

Yes we did. The ONLY case where the Clinton administration actually found itself in deep trouble was when they made the mistake of appointing an HONEST Special Prosecutor named Pearson ... who was tasked with investigating the activities of Ron Brown. Pearson was so successful that they ... someone(s) connected to the Clinton administration ... eventually had to kill Brown in order to keep him from talking to Pearson about all the Clinton administration's and DNC's dirty laundry. At least that's the way it looks given the facts surrounding the death of Brown.

[MeekOneGOP]

We'll see how this pans out. The libs are whining about this to keep attention OFF the Global Crossing scandal in which DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe is likely involved in insider trading while making $18 MILLION in profit on his $100,000 investment.

DIMocRAT tactic: If you tell the lie often enough, people will believe it. That's what's going on with Enron. They don't have anything on Bush et al, but they're TALKING the scandal into the media. . .

[BOBTHENAILER]

You both got it right on the money.

If you tell the lie long enough, people will believe it.

Nobody wanted to be the front man on this attack, so they sent out the dufus to be the fall guy. Reminds me of older kids making the young sibling ask the stupid question of the parents. The youngster doesn't know any better. In this case, they send out the elder drooler to do the dirty work.

[mystery-ak]

I agree with both of you....say it often enough, it becomes innuendo, right out of the Rat playbook.
I hope GW and his administration has a plan to counter this.....Im waiting.

[xzins]

Hey, didn't the "special prosecutor" law come to an end?

[randita]

They had to bring Fritz out of moth-balls to embarrass himself with that senile sounding "cash and carry" rant against the Bush admin. Nobody could seem to figure out what exactly he was trying to say...

Fritz Hollings would be perfectly cast in a role as a snake oil salesman. Oil just oozes from that man whenever he speaks. He's very hard to believe or to take seriously. The Democrats couldn't have picked a better front man (for the GOP, that is).

[apollo11]

His own compatriot at the press conference contradicted him! Asked if crimes had been committed, he responded yes, a number of them, and his buddy to the right had to jump in and interject "alleged" into the discussion, while Hollings stood by with his mouth hanging open.

So Hollings becomes the sacrificial lamb, trotted out to make a complete ass of himself on national television, seconded only by Barbara Boxer, whose chief complaint seems to be that the President wouldn't take a meeting with her on the California energy crisis (which has miraculously evaporated, by the way).

[anniegetyourgun]

So we can use the race card on the lib/Dems? ; ]

You know they would if the shoe were on the other foot!

[secret garden]

I think that's exactly right. And Lucianne is right - he does sound just like Foghorn Leghorn. But he's not funny.

[Howlin]

I meant concerning the Bush Administration, because that is who he said he was going after.

[Kaslin]

The lawyer ( a Black man worked for a Large firm in Atlanta and He never worked for Enorn his from did very little work for them).

what does this mean?(

[steve50]

We learned from Starr that the position is toothless. Congress and the DOJ are both to conflicted in this.

Just like the black bag searches from the Patriot Act, if nobody has anything to hide why are they worried about a special prosecutor.

[cake_crumb]

If you tell the lie often enough, people will believe it.

That is sooooo right on the money!

[Wright is right!]

"Did they bring him out as their 'fall guy' to go extreme, hoping some of it would stick in dumb people's minds, because they expect him to retire at the end of his term, anyway? Protecting their losses over such a ridiculous position because they would lose him anyway?"

Fritz Hollings was indeed trotted out yesterday as a "loss-leader," someone who could go totally off the deep end without any fear of consequences. It's easy to have your Loose Cannon Of The Day call for a special prosecutor when you already KNOW that there won't be one appointed.

And the only reason you saw Hollings AT ALL was because Ken Lay was a no-show. The Dems needed some anti-Bush "filler" to plug the hole left by Lay's change of plans. In other words, a One-Day Wonder designed to divert attention.

Interesting, though...none of the evening news shows chose to use it. Yes, it made it into some ancillary reports on the cable shows, but the network producers knew it was a hollow knell - and left it alone.

Of course, here in Nashville, a couple of the local TV's went with the story as a "prominent Democrat" calling for "an independent prosecutor." They didn't bother to point out that the IP law lapsed and therefore, there won't BE any IP. Knowing these 2 stations, though, they probably left it out more from ignorance than malice.

Michael

[L.N. Smithee]

DIMocRAT tactic: If you tell the lie often enough, people will believe it. That's what's going on with Enron. They don't have anything on Bush et al, but they're TALKING the scandal into the media. . .

Amen, bro. As I said yesterday:

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To: MamaLucci

It has yet to be demonstrated any role the White House could have had in creating the Enron scandal, yet Time ragazine (with a pic of the WH under the headline, "The Enron Mess") and the news nut-works are letting the libs get away with saying that the company's influence in the admin is the equivalent of sharing in Enron's guilt. That's like saying that Clinton is to blame for salmonella in Tyson chickens.

The news shows' constantly replaying the sound bite of Barbara Boxer referring to Lay's memo to Cheney as "the smoking gun" was indeed a "smoking gun" -- if they are under scrutiny for bias (thanks, Bernie Goldberg!)

It takes a lot of extralogical thinking to allow charges like Boxer's to go unchallenged, but the media are, for the most part, letting it go on until they strike gold. Until that moment, pyrite (aka Fool's Gold) will suffice.

31 posted on 2/4/02 1:40 PM Pacific by L.N. Smithee
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[Bommer]

DIMocRAT tactic: If you tell the lie often enough, people will believe it

Funny how Democrap tactics as well as domestic policy mirrors exactly as the NAZI party isn't it?

[Bommer]

DIMocRAT tactic: If you tell the lie often enough, people will believe it

Funny how Democrap tactics as well as domestic policy mirrors exactly as the NAZI party isn't it?

[MeekOneGOP]

Yep! Bump.

[BeAChooser]

We learned from Starr that the position is toothless.

Only if the person in that position is CORRUPT. Ron Brown's Special Prosecutor showed what can be accomplished if the person is HONEST. Even with the rest of the administration trying to protect him, Brown was soon more than willing to talk ... so much so that it appears the Clinton adminstration had to silence him ... permanently.

Starr, on the other hand, was coopted from day one. He was the number 2 person on a list of people supplied by ... who else ... the Clintons for the position. Other than the Monica revelation, he discovered NOTHING. Klayman, with FAR less power, discovered more about Filegate and Chinagate. Starr failed miserably in following up the leads Klayman supplied in Filegate and completely WHITEWASHED the Foster case. And note that his whole investigation was shutting down ... when the Ron Brown matter started to heat up. Questions about Brown's death were actually starting to surface in the regular media. The black community was calling for an investigation ... an autopsy. Clinton knew he had to do SOMETHING to distract the media and there wasn't any WAR brewing that he could USE.

So ... out of the blue ... Starr "discovered" Monica and she became THE ONLY STORY. And, given the FBI files, Clinton KNEW that there wasn't ANY WAY the Senate would ever convict him. He KNEW that the Monica story could be spun. He knew that exposing his tryst with Monica was much preferable to having accusations of murder and TREASON levied against him and his administration.

And if you don't think Starr was dirty, then explain this. Why did Starr allow the Clintons to keep those FBI files in the Whitehouse FOR YEARS after he told everyone that it was ILLEGAL for the Whitehouse to have them? Why did he say NOTHING when the administration and the FBI told the public that the files had been returned? It's a simple question.

[steve50]

You get no arguement from me about Starr. It's all about sex beats it's all about treason every time.