Bush s Insider Connections Preceded Huge Profit On Stock Deal

Center for Public Integrity ^ | July 3, 2002 | Knut Royce

[anniegetyourgun]

Welcome to FR today.

[Dog Gone]

First post here at FR, eh? Did you have breakfast with Adam Clymer this morning?

[Poohbah]

We have a self-confessed "I was in Vietnam, no I wasn't" named nohorse trashing Bush...

And now we have noescape doing the same thing. The other guy registered June 30th.

Gosh, maybe I'm just paranoid...

[noescape]

I am not trashing Bush. I simply posted an interesting and informative article.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Remember Hillary's 900 FBI files? Remember the pardon of the Hassidic Jews who delivered all the votes for her? Remember the false charges against Billy Dale? Remember who illegally rifled through Vince Foster's office the night he died?

Or is your memory a little more selective than that?

[stands2reason]

C'mon, you know anytime these DU fools think they have an edge they start climbing out of the woodwork...why they do it, I don't get it...remember when Enron first hit? Or after the "Bush Knew" crap?

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Other than the Harkin deal, which the SEC investigated and is well known in Texas, none of the other information even seems odd.

Where's the beef?

[snooker]

At least Bush isn't Martha Stewart.

BTW, has AlGore found the meaning of 'is' yet? Last I heard he was still searching.

I did like AlGore personality #87 better than the last personality #88. Maybe some day he will figure out who he is.

But welcome. Didn't read past the first line, so if there was anything useful, maybe someone else will point it out.

tarpon

[bvw]

A person can change his ways. Clearly George Bush has. Let us see what he does, his actions since beginning his run for Governor of Texas, and perhaps before are of a man who learns from mistakes, and acknowledges them, at least, by no longer engaging in them, or supporting them.

Thanks for the article.

[Maceman]

I'm waiting for the part where it said that Bush obstructed justice or otherwise tried to sandbag the SEC probe.

[grimalkin]

It's like trying to get rid of a fleas.

[verity]

There is no escape from your asylum.

[Poohbah]

I am not trashing Bush. I simply posted an interesting and informative article.

Uh-huh. Sure. Right. Whatever you say, boss. Yup.

[Dales]

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I always enjoy reading propaganda produced through the ministrations of the Ford, Rockefeller, and Streisand Foundations. Not to mention the Pew Charitable Trusts.

A whiff of desperation is in the air, blowing in from the left...

[BlueAngel]

From now on, we will be seeing an orchestrated attempt to erode the President's high poll numbers. This is just part of the DNC's talking points that will be hammered on until the fall elections.

[Phaedrus]

noescape . . . member since July 3rd, 2002

[Freemyland]

OK. Here is the useful line from the article:

"After the SEC ended its investigation, according to one of its memos, the regulators concluded that Harken and Bush were unaware of the magnitude of the write- downs until at least mid-July, or after Bush’s stock sale."

[3AngelaD]

1) Author and poster unclear on the concept of a blind trust; probably unclear on the concept of compound interest, as well, but no way to tell, really.
2) Eaten up with envy, a cardinal sin I must point out.
3) Basic assumption is that anyone who makes money is suspect. The more successful you are, the more evil you must be. In other words, diametrical opposite of Protestant ethic.
Conclusion, nasty piece of work, not fit to shine the President's shoes. Probably a loser, too, as these envious types tend to be.

[mountaineer]

Securities and Exchange Commission records suggest that Bush, a company director who sat on Harken’s audit committee and was a paid consultant to the firm, may nonetheless have been unaware of the sleight-of-hand accounting or, for that matter, other significant company actions

Even the author of this would-be hit piece begrudgingly acknowledges an investigation indicated Bush didn't know anything about the "sleight-of-hand" accounting. So where's the beef? Is the best the Dems can do - accusing with innuendo whenever the evidence just isn't there?