Notice too that LIEberman said he didn't know if it was illegal for Rubin to try to get the rating company to falsify Enron's fiscal status, but it was certainly unethical............GIVE ME A BREAK.......he was trying to get Moody's to commit fraud.
Lieberman's been part of the fianacial mess from the beginning in 1994. As Warren Buffet recently wrote in the NYT:
Indeed, actions by Congress and the Securities and Exchange Commission have the potential of creating a smoke screen that will prevent real accounting reform. The Senate itself is the major reason corporations have been able to duck option expensing. On May 3, 1994, the Senate, led by Senator Joseph Lieberman, pushed the Financial Accounting Standards Board and Arthur Levitt, then chairman of the S.E.C., into backing down from mandating that options be expensed. Mr. Levitt has said that he regrets this retreat more than any other move he made during his tenure as chairman. Unfortunately, current S.E.C. leadership seems uninterested in correcting this matter. I don't believe in Congress setting accounting rules. But the Senate opened the floodgates in 1994 to an anything-goes reporting system, and it should close them now. Rather than holding hearings and fulminating, why doesn't the Senate just free the standards board by rescinding its 1994 action?
No wonder he wants to duck any responsibility.