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Thank you for the information. This transaction has been examined at length and evidently no malfeasance was found. Is this going to go on and on until some committee somewhere says they've found the smoking gun, like the 2000 election?

Investigation by the SEC won't do it? Maybe Congress will be able to nail it down to what Bush knew and when he knew it and who bailed the company out. If there was no illegality to the transaction what is the point, except the smearing of President Bush?

A big part of it is politics, of course. Nobody ever said it was a nice game - and it isn't. If Bush wasn't President and this wasn't a time of corporate scandals and a tremendous bear market, nobody would give a damn. But he is and it is so it will continue as long as it's politically useful.

Right now the paper trail is dead. But much is unknown and quite a bit is hidden. Anything could surface. My feeling - and I've stated it several times on this forum - is that the public does not blame Bush for the bear market and will not blame him for questionable deals long past IF he vigorously goes after and punishes the worst of today's corporate crooks. If he doesn't they will blame him both for sheltering the crooks and for possibly being one himself - and he'll deserve it. I'd like his presidency to succeed because it's very bad for the country if it doesn't. But I'm afraid the last thing Mr. Bush wants to do is what I've suggested.