Judge Roy Bean device
Will this help get the Audit underway?
Posted on 07/09/2002 4:44:40 PM PDT by Paul_E_Ester
(Washington, D.C.) Judicial Watch, the group that investigates and prosecutes corruption by government officials, announced today that it is filing a shareholders suit in Dallas, Texas, against Vice President Dick Cheney and the other involved directors of Halliburton, as well as Halliburton itself, for alleged fraudulent accounting practices which resulted in the overvaluation of the company’s shares, thereby deceiving investors and others.
The suit comes one day after President George W. Bush, who himself is enmeshed in allegations of insider trading when he was an executive, who sat on the audit committee of Harken Energy Company, announced a “plan” to crack down on corporate fraud. Ironically, it would appear that the President’s rush to propose more regulation of private industry is intended to deflect attention away from his and his Vice President’s own alleged improper business practices. President Bush has maintained that he was cleared by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Others have countered that the head of the agency was then an appointee of his father, President George H.W.Bush.
President Clinton and the Democratic Party used a similar gambit when they were caught taking money illegally from foreign donors, including the Communist Chinese. Instead of prosecuting vigorously the Clintons and other guilty politicians, new campaign finance laws were proposed to deflect attention away from alleged crimes.
“Whether it is the Enron, Arthur Andersen, Global Crossing, or now the Halliburton and Harken scandals, there is a dangerous intersection between politicians of all stripes, Democrat and Republican, attempting to feed at the trough of business greed. As is true of the Clinton scandals, the American people cannot look the other way just because the President and Vice President are allegedly involved. Indeed, Judicial Watch has already sued Democrat and Republican officials in the Enron and Global Crossing scandals. To look the other way for the Vice President would be to set a precedent that the Washington elite are above the law. This cannot be permitted if our democracy is to survive,” stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman.
In 1995 Halliburton was prosecuted and forced to plead guilty to trading with Libya, a terrorist state on the U.S. watch list.
A press conference will be held in Miami at 9:00 A.M. at the Sheraton Hotel at 495 Brickell Avenue to announce and detail this suit.
'Pod, this is not an argument. First of all, you draw some equivalence between Janet Reno and John Ashcroft - I reject that out of hand. (Get back to me when Ashcroft burns down a compound with citizens inside, or kidnaps a child and sends him off to live under a dictatorship.) Secondly, your assertion that Klayman "couldn't be worse" is pure speculation and doesn't appear to be based on the only evidence we have, which is his past performance.
And I'm sorry - you seem like a decent guy - but you're not always right.
I believe the ump has tossed you. See you next time.
Would that be a Doris Meissner IRS Audit? The equivalent of "Carolina Umps?"
< grin> 'Pod
Look 'Vet, nobody hates Miz Rhino worse than i do for what happened to the BDers.
But the Injustice Department is detaining some guy (can't remember which one) w/o access to a lawyer or a court date because of alleged links to Al Quaeda. Ashcroft approves.
Ashcroft approves also of the Patriot Act. Secret evidence. snooping on your email or your phone calls w/o having to go before a judge.
In my opinion, he is absolutely as corrupt as she was/is. If he wasn't, he would refuse to use those powers and promulgate regulations to make sure they were never used. I think he asked for them (the new powers). There is a moral equivalence here. Maybe he hasn't approved the way out of hand assault and trumped up stuff that happened to the BDers. But, he has shown no inclination that i can see that he wouldn't. Seems way too autocratic/tyrannical to me. Again, my opinion.
AFA being tossed out of the game by the ump, reference my comment about "carolina refs."
BTW, you seem like a decent sort too. But, I am ALWAYS right. This is not debatable. :-). It is a fact of the universe. 'Pod
There are some one here who know the truth about JW. Thats all that matters. The others are as wrong about JW as they are about several other things they support on FR, including other former Pres. candidates and also in trashing Bush.
Ignorance.
(my scope with regard to internal FR politics is far more narrow than I realized..)
I never heard that before, but if true, it's even more interesting than the possible Perot connection, IMO.
It's time for some justice, "because no one is above the law."
Judge Roy Bean device
Will this help get the Audit underway?
Sad, Cartoon Boy. You don't even see the irony.
You heard what the man said: "over my dead body."
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