[PhiKapMom]

I am with you -- I want to know about that secure room she had built in her house to house those computers. She is using USSS to hide whatever she is up to and it won't be up to anything good!

Hope you feel better in the morning!

[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.