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Houstonians Debate: Was Baxter 'Vince Fostered'?
NewsMax ^ | January 26, 2002 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

Posted on 01/26/2002 7:17:36 AM PST by MeekOneGOP

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Saturday Jan. 26, 2002; 10:30 a.m. EST

Houstonians Debate: Was Baxter 'Vince Fostered'?

News that ex-Enron executive Cliff Baxter had been found shot to death ignited a firestorm of speculation on Friday, and nowhere was the debate more intense than on talk radio in Baxter's hometown of Houston, Texas.

"I would say it's about 60/40 that people down here think he may have been Vince Fostered," said KPRC radio host Chris Baker Saturday morning.

Suspicions intensified when police rushed Baxter's body from his late model Mercedes where it was found in a Houston suburb to a local funeral home without further examination, the Texas radio talker noted.

But then "the Justice of the Peace in the area decided he was going to be much more thorough," Baker told WABC radio's John Gambling in New York. "So now the body's going to go for autopsy and that cooled down a lot of that, maybe-this-guy-was-murdered thing."

Still, questions continue to swirl, he said.

"You know, there's a saying that you can always blame a dead man so - (while) I truly believe it's a suicide, the rumors are going to start," Baker predicted.

The KPRC host said that any attempt to make Baxter Enrongate's fall guy would be complicated by his image as a straight shooter. "It would be strange to see (Baxter's colleagues) point the finger because this guy did have a reputation for boldly speaking with former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling and protesting against a lot of (the company's) business practices."

Houston police have so far declined to release the contents of a suicide note found in Baxter's car. But ABC News reported Friday night that several coworkers said the ex-Enron executive had expressed distress over the prospect of having to testify against his former colleagues in upcoming Congressional hearings.

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To: honway
In the early 1990s, Enron struck several deals to build and operate power plants in the Philippines, including a small plant in Subic Bay abandoned by the US military. In those deals, according to a 1995 article in Inter Press Service, Enron was aided by US Ambassador Frank Wisner Jr and officials from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), who "provided Enron with key data on the risks of the project and strategies of possible competitors".

Wisner, who was US ambassador to India when Enron became involved in the Dabhol project, was appointed to the Enron board of directors in 1997. Wisner, as many historians of US intelligence know, is the son of the infamous Frank Wisner Sr, who was a top CIA operative until he committed suicide in 1965. He distinguished himself in two US-supported coups in the 1950s that later came back to haunt US diplomacy: the overthrow of the Arbenz government in Guatemala and the Mossadeq government in Iran

161 posted on 03/18/2002 5:28:13 PM PST by honway
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To: swampfx
http://www.atimes.com/global-econ/DA29Dj01.html

Asia Times:Enron

Link for quote above on Wisner.

162 posted on 03/18/2002 5:31:28 PM PST by honway
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To: BeAChooser
Broken record, take 3,567. You must be hell to live around with your anal fixation on "getting Clinton."
163 posted on 03/18/2002 5:33:34 PM PST by sinkspur
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To: MeeknMing
Chrissy Baker is still a wussy man-child, howard-stern wanna-be!

Houston's Conservative Radio is KSEV, 700 AM

Clear Communications is run by a bunch of liberal "Girlie-Boyz", Huh Ann!

164 posted on 03/18/2002 5:40:22 PM PST by HoustonKevin
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To: Cowboy Bob
It was rat shot not a bullet.
165 posted on 03/18/2002 6:13:06 PM PST by Orange1998
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To: sinkspur
Broken record, take 3,567. You must be hell to live around with your anal fixation on "getting Clinton."

The only record I see getting broken is YOURS in the number of times you have RUN from answering these simple questions I ask. And YOU are the one OBSESSED with Clinton. Like I've said before (and to which people like you NEVER respond), this isn't just about Bill Clinton. It is about an entire party (YOURS) gone BAD ... it is about DOZENS of democRATS in leadership positions who committed serious crimes (like election tampering, treason and MURDER) ... it about that party and the liberal media apparently BLACKMAILING the other party into inaction with regards to those crimes. But you never want to talk about those other criminals, do you. You'd RATHER this just be about Bill ... the master of SPIN.

166 posted on 03/18/2002 9:19:51 PM PST by BeAChooser
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To: swampfx
Dale G. Blue and J. Ronald Woods have been appointed to the board of Canadian Superior Energy Inc., Calgary. Blue has spent the last 18 years with Chase and Chemical Bank, both in Toronto and Calgary. Most recently he was chairman, chief executive officer and president of Chase Manhattan Bank of Canada.

Reappointed to the board were Donald Axford, Greg Noval, Robert Pilling, T. Harp, Fred Purich and Charles Dallas.

167 posted on 03/23/2002 7:33:20 AM PST by honway
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To: swampfx
The (Enron) parent company lists its largest unsecured creditor as Citigroup (nyse: C - news - people) unit Citibank, to whom it owes $3 billion. It also owes the Bank of New York (nyse: BK - news - people) $2 billion and Chase Manhattan Bank, a unit of J.P. Morgan Chase (nyse: JPM - news - people), $1.9 billion. In addition, Enron lists a trade debt owed to Arthur Andersen, its auditor, of $2 billion. The auditor, of course, will be a defendant in lawsuits for much more than it is owed.
168 posted on 03/23/2002 7:40:05 AM PST by honway
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To: swampfx
Whistle blower Sherron Watkins lives outside of Houston and is married to Richard Watkins who is VP of Canadian Superior Energy in Calgary, Canada. They met at church and were married in 1997.
169 posted on 03/23/2002 7:49:01 AM PST by honway
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To: Black Jade
BTTT!!!!!
171 posted on 03/24/2002 2:22:25 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: Black Jade
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/652464/posts?page=20

Discrepancies in the Death of Cliff Baxter

Contrary to the statements of the Sugar Land Police Department, it was not two Sugar Land police officers but one of Hal Werlein's Deputy Constables who discovered the former Enron executive slumped behind the wheel of his new Mercedes sedan, parked just inside the Sweetwater development where Baxter and his family lived, in much the poshest part of town.

"Our Constable’s office has a contract deputy program which provides private security guards for the Sweetwater homeowner’s association, and it was one of these men who discovered Mr. Baxter," Werlein told us.

"The report I got from my Deputy Constable there on the scene stated he had come upon a Mercedes sitting parked in a turnout. He became suspicious and approached the vehicle, where he found Baxter still alive. He then immediately called for EMT’s (Emergency Medical Technicians)."

172 posted on 03/24/2002 7:42:47 AM PST by honway
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To: swampfx
Sugar Land police spokesmen didn't know the caliber of the gun, were unsure of the make of the car, or if a bullet was found, or where the gun was. But--and thank god!--they DID know that there were "no apparent signs of foul play."

From link above

173 posted on 03/24/2002 7:45:16 AM PST by honway
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To: honway
Nice digging.

Not sure if it's been posted on FR elsewhere, but here's a link to the Baxter autopsy report.

And here's a link to Dan Hopsicker's piece on Baxter The Surgarland Sanction, which I found to be very enlightening.

Not much Enron news lately, not since FOB's started showing up in the sex parties list.

Nothing to see here folks, MOVE along.

174 posted on 03/24/2002 8:59:56 AM PST by PeaceBeWithYou
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To: Black Jade
Bump
175 posted on 03/24/2002 6:19:27 PM PST by mafree
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To: honway
If in fact and in truth there is a documentable miscegenational relationship between Enron and Federal spooks, this thing could become very interesting. Some of the "missing" Enron money could have been extracted to pay for the blackest of black ops. And if real deal spooks are involved - do they have expertise in deniably whacking inconveniently knowledgeable people?
177 posted on 04/07/2002 8:17:38 PM PDT by 185JHP
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To: 185JHP
bump
178 posted on 06/05/2002 10:27:33 AM PDT by a-whole-nother-box-of-pandoras
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