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To: Torie
Fine...let the media bring out the details as they see fit. You really think that this is a 'winning' strategy? Regardless of the 'underlying facts'...it's a 'loser' for a Republician President.

I not even judging the 'merit' of the charges and accusations since it happened some 12 years ago and I could careless.

If you think letting it dribble out, bit by bit with a series of new 'nightly revelation', is a positive for the President, I think your mistaken.

33 posted on 07/15/2002 7:46:40 PM PDT by RCW2001
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To: RCW2001
This irrelevant factlet is the first "new" thing out there. The rest has been media distortion of "old" facts, long publically available. But you have a point.
35 posted on 07/15/2002 7:48:23 PM PDT by Torie
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To: RCW2001

How many more documents do you want released? It appears they have been released to the Center for Public Integrity...... where do you think this crap is dribbling in from?

One overlooked aspect of the controversy is that the SEC has already released some of its Harken documents — with Bush's consent. In 1998, the public-interest group Center for Public Integrity made a Freedom of Information Act Request for the papers as part of an examination of the business history and finances of each major presidential candidate. Bill Allison, the center's managing editor, says the SEC originally turned down a request for Bush/Harken documents. Then the center appealed the decision, and later, Allison says, "We got a letter from the SEC from their Freedom of Information Office telling us that the subject of the investigation [Bush] had waived any privilege claim over the documents and they could send them to us." (Bush had also waived attorney-client privilege to give the material to the SEC) The center used the information for its book The Buying of the President 2000 and for later articles about Bush's business dealings. Now, with the issue again in the news, the center has posted the documents on its website.


40 posted on 07/15/2002 7:59:12 PM PDT by deport
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To: RCW2001
As a lawyer, I can tell you that the most helpful device I have ever used in court (at least this is what jurors tell me) is a nice timeline that spells the facts out in chronological sequence.

I wonder if politicians ever think about doing these things to help the sheeple understand complicated issues and the sequence of significant events over time.

45 posted on 07/15/2002 8:14:15 PM PDT by PackerBoy
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