FR Current Events Project: Keeping Tabs on the Media's Attacks on Bush and the Republican Party

All Media Sources | July 10, 2002

[Howlin]

I have honestly lost count of all the lies and distortions being thrown about in the press these last few weeks concerning Bush and his agenda, and the things going on in and around this country, especially concerning the government, the DOJ, and the Congress.

I would like to use this thread -- and you other Freepers -- to compile a COMPLETE THREAD of all the various errors we find in and among the articles we read on here and the news shows that we see daily on TV.

My thoughts are that if we get them all on one thread, maybe we can figure out what the heck is going on in this country and, more importantly in my opinion, WHO is doing it.

Please include the URL for the article or news report you will add to the list; if it is not from a thread on FR, please copy and paste the article, along with date, time, and source to this thread in order to preserve the information.

As always, be careful which newspapers/magazines you post full articles from.

I believe we are in a full frontal fight for the life of this country, the Supreme Court, and the things we believe in. We need to prepare ourselves to refute all the distortions being continually spewed over the airwaves and in the papers of this country.

Now, get to work!

[kcvl]

Perot Systems denied wrongdoing. The company was hired in 1997 to build a computer system for the California Power Exchange and the Independent System Operator, which manages the state's energy grid and real-time energy sales.

Information technology consultant Robert McCullough of McCullough Research in Portland, Ore., said the company's presentation provided a blueprint on how to manipulate the energy market.

"Perot Systems discovered a 'hole' in the ISO's protocols for buying, selling and pricing imbalance energy," the presentation said, which "allowed strategies that would destabilize the market."

Perot Systems said the presentation was done for the power exchange's benefit in 1998. The company said it advised the Power Exchange and the Independent System Operator of defects in the market without revealing confidential information to others.

But Dunn and McCullough said they believe the information was presented to Reliant Energy in 1999. Reliant spokesman Richard Wheatley said the document was one of many the company has turned over to Dunn and to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

"We believe this document was provided to Reliant as part of a Perot System sales presentation," he said. Wheatley said he didn't know when the presentation was made, or what product Perot System was pitching.

Perot Systems had a $35 million contract with the Power Exchange in 2000.

Dunn said he spoke with Ross Perot on Wednesday morning and the company's chairman offered unfettered access to employees and documents for the investigation.

"He offered to come to Sacramento to testify," Dunn said. He said Perot told him that if Dunn's characterization of the documents was accurate, it did not reflect Perot System's values.

[Mo1]

Ms. clinton is preparing her run for Pres in 2004 if she can pull it off! That's what this is all about!

Oh you bet she is .. she HASN'T been all the country collecting those big bucks for nothing

She IS running in 2004

[mafree]

Whoever takes this job on is gonna be REAL busy.

[PhiKapMom]

You are right about those folks and the Dixie Mafia. Then we have clinton's Uncle that was the supposed head of it.

Doesn't this whole deal smell?

[kcvl]

Perot Systems did make sales pitches to Reliant and other energy companies for software that would help them maneuver through energy markets, Perot said. But the information the company detailed in its presentations was already available, he said.

Company officials said there was little interest in the information. The chief financial officer said Perot Systems earned just $11,000 in consulting fees from Reliant and never got far enough to make software that might have helped Reliant operate in California.

The company said it did not know whether it made a similar marketing presentation to Enron but added that it performed only $3,000 worth of computer services work in 1994 for the now-bankrupt energy company.

Perot Systems also filed several letters and memos with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The documents detail a conversation between Jeffrey Tranen, then chief executive of the California ISO, and Ronald Nash, then a vice president of Perot Systems, about potential conflict-of-interest violations in Perot Systems' sales pitches to energy companies.

In a 1997 letter, Tranen accuses Perot Systems of violating its conflict-of-interest agreement with the ISO. But a later letter suggests that the two companies met and resolved the issue, partially by requiring Perot Systems to make sure that the energy companies understood it was not suggesting ways they could manipulate the market. Dunn said late Thursday that he had not seen the letters.

Perot said he has promised both Dunn and Lockyer that the company will cooperate fully with their investigations.

Stephen McClellan, a Merrill Lynch analyst who has known Perot for 30 years, said the charges against Perot's company were overblown, citing the small amount of revenue it says it earned from energy consulting.

"They're just the ultimate in straight-arrow, Boy Scout-type business practices," McClellan said. "It just doesn't seem there is . . . a smoking gun or red flag."

[Mo1]

As I understand it fundraiser guests are ushered through the hall to a tent in the back yard.

If I recall from the Freeps done at her house .. the guests never stayed long either

The way the Freeper discussed ... it reminded me of a drug run or something .. the guest were in and out real fast

[terilyn]

Here's a doozy from ABC:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/714177/posts

Title: U.S. Backs Down From Immunity Demand

The title makes it sound like Bush caved right? But if you read the article, here's an excerpt:

The new draft U.S. resolution asks the court for a 12-month exemption from investigation or prosecution of peacekeepers and "expresses the intention to renew the request ... for further 12 month periods for as long as may be necessary."


No agenda here...

[gov_bean_ counter]

A few years ago, most of us on Free Republic thought we had the totality of the Clinton corruption picture painted. Now, as we step back and take another at that picture look in light of the recent events and connect the dots, it just gets frightening. When you consider the board room connections of Robert Rubin, the lax attitude of the SEC during the Clinton Administration and remember that the Stock Market was the measure by which Clinton told us we were doing well... We knew that Clinton's Department of Labor had changed the way the unemployment figures were computed as was the method of computing inflation. At least the Stock Market was in good shape. Well, it just appears that the 8 years of Clinton were just one big lie.

Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. I shutter to think what the harvest of the seeds sown by Clinton and Co. will eventually bring.

[Mo1]

Isn't Newsweek under investigation by the DOJ about leaks??

[PhiKapMom]

I have a another hunch that if you track donations to the DNC and clintons from Corporate Execs you will find out their companies did not come under scruntiny by the SEC so they got by with anything and everything.

I cannot imagine how much corruptness there was during the clinton years. It seems to have been a phony economy built on that corruptness.

[Darlin']

Great idea. Thank you so much for taking a positive step.

[Utah Girl]

Newsweek under investigation? I haven't heard that one...

[Darlin']

Yep, I agree, great idea. In recent weeks the pace and tone of the attacks have troubnled me a great deal.

[Mo1]

Livingstone with Gore in 1988???

[Howlin]

You got it.

[Mo1]

But, you can't find ANYONE who knows/knew Craig Livingstone!!!(especially Hillary Clinton)

That's what I thought

I'll have to pick my brothers brain in the morning about this ..

[JohnHuang2]

Thanks for the ping

[kcvl]

Feb. 28, 2001 / 5 Adar, 5761
Thomas H. Lipscomb

Marc Rich and the Clintons' Court Jews

And this explains why they are so "shocked, shocked" at the Marc Rich affair. It must be an isolated scandal, right? So let's forget fixer Nathan Landow's attempts to keep Kathleen Willey quiet and his odd meeting alone with Vince Foster the weekend before his death, Terry Lenzner whose IRI secret police was the heart of Clinton's brutal White House blackmail machine, Red China's favorite defense contractor Bernard Schwartz of Loral, or the disinterred Arlington "war hero" Larry Lawrence who might have been doing some very interesting financial maneuvering as Clinton's ambassador to Switzerland and dozens of others who may begin to form a pattern the press might actually have to cover.More...

[kcvl]

Jack Palladino was a San Francisco private eye for the agency of former Watergate prosecutor Terry Lenzner.

[JohnHuang2]

Indeed.