Halliburton Responds to Larry Klayman's Supersillyous Suit(My Title)

CBS Market Watch "Big Charts" Web Site ^ | 7/10/2002 | MarketWatch.com

[SierraWasp]

12:57PM Halliburton responds to Judicial Watch lawsuit (HAL) by Michael Baron Halliburton (HAL) is off 30 cents, or 2.1 percent, to $13.82, in midday action. The company is out with a press release responding to a lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, a Washington, D.C.-based legal watchdog group. The suit alleges fraudulent accounting practices at Halliburton took place during the period when current vice president Dick Cheney served as its chairman and CEO. Halliburton called the claims in the suit, "untrue, unsupported, and unfounded." The company continued: "We are working diligently with the SEC to resolve its questions regarding the company's accounting procedures. Halliburton has always followed and will continue to follow guidelines established by the SEC and GAAP, General Accepted Accounting Principles."

[FreedominJesusChrist]

You are right on that one. Nixon did have the dignity to resign, because he knew what was best for the country. Clinton however, didn't.

[deport]

Call your buds at the watch and find out when the next big announcement is due. Let us know so we can be on the look out......

[Howlin]

I believe the term they used was "finessed." LOL.

[Howlin]

No, he could not have. DUH.

[Fred Mertz]

No .. Nixon did the right thing .. instead of dragging this country through that mess .. he resigned.

Who did worse, Nixon or Clinton?

I rest my case.

[Mo1]

I don't think they can. I'm positive it has to be something done while in office.
Unless they go entirely insane.

Well I am not an expert in this area .. is there someone around here that knows for sure

[Mo1]

I rest my case.

???

[Torie]

That is a bridge term, actually. Good players often know which finesses will work, because they have absorbed and processed all the clues. Bad players just hope for the best. I am closer to a bad player than a good player.

[Howlin]

Yes .. but the depositions were givin while he and hillary were in office

A charge of lying under oath would have been a "new" charge, having nothing at all to do with Whitewater, just as the charge against Clinton had nothing to do with Paula Jones, except that it was a deposition taken while he was in office.

And I agree with you on Gore.

[Texasforever]

Should Cheney be charged with some crime and convicted while in office, he would not wait to be impeached, he would resign of that I am sure. However; this idiotic lawsuit is not going to do it because no criminal action is involved. I will be surprised if the court does not throw the thing out as soon as it receives Cheney’s answer.

[Mo1]

Clinton only knows what best to do about HIMSELF

[FreedominJesusChrist]

You two might know the correct answer to this question.

Can a public official be impeached for high crimes or misdemeanors that occured before they were elected into their current position.

There is a split opinion on this. Your input would be great. Thanks.

[FreedominJesusChrist]

There, I pinged some credible people on this subject.

[Mo1]

A charge of lying under oath would have been a "new" charge, having nothing at all to do with Whitewater

Yes .. it would be a new charge .. that related to old charges

Does that make sense???

[Torie]

Actually that scenario would require a demurrer in lieu of an Answer on the grounds that even if everything Klayman alleged were true, it failed to state a cause of action. Absent that, we get an answer, and then at some point a motion for summary judgment, or motion to dismiss in federal court.

[Fred Mertz]

I will be surprised if the court does not throw the thing out as soon as it receives Cheney’s answer.

I'm certain it won't go anywhere. Cheney owns the judges.

Watch and see.

[deport]

There, I pinged some credible people on this subject.

The credible people on this subject would be the 435 that would sit to decided if they would issue impeachment findings..... Any others are just blowing in the wind

Now are you going to ask your buds about the next big announcement? Would it be coming in the next few days? Maybe next week?

[Texasforever]

Damn I need to stop playing lawyer on the internet. LOL

[Mo1]

Agree with both points .. Cheney would step don't first

And yes this will be thrown out real fast

[Howlin]

He would have lied under oath; the case wouldn't have been relevant.