GORE AND ENRON

Various Media Outlets Found in Research and Referenced | 22 August 2002 | Freeper Research

[Alamo-Girl]

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[Mo1]

Thanks Mike .. it looks like a lot of work was put into gathering all this information and we need to help get the word out ..

Your the best !!

[Mo1]

And a bump right back at ya ... LOL

[Darlin']

FOFLOL. Ok, tag, you're it again and a goodnight BUMP to ya :)

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Good Job! We should call it Demron!

Have added a link to my "FReeper Hall of Fame" on my profile page for easy reference and recognition of a job well done.

[WaterDragon]

Wow, PKM, you've done a fantastic job pulling this together! I'll do just as you suggest in passing this info on.

[D. Miles]

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[backhoe]

I will keep sending to the media and sooner or later they are going to have to do something about printing the facts -- they cannot hide this information forever!

Exactly- as fine as it is to talk among ourselves, we are obliged to pass it on to others beyond Free Republic.

At the very least we all should use the ease and speed of the 'net to forward this information to other boards, newspapers, commentators, friends, and others in the information food chain.

Never underestimate the value of personal testimony- people tend to want to believe a person who is telling them a story, so get some facts together and testify, oh brothers and sisters!

Letters to editors carry more influence than you may suspect- study those printed in your paper, and emulate them as to size and general structure, and go to it with your own.

Local talk radio is so easy to get on, compared to the big or even regional names, but carries more weight than you may suspect- like a personal story, a citizen on the radio is a "real person, giving testimony."

[Liz]

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[Movemout]

Good job on this documentation. So now there are two scandals, one named The Enron Scandal, and then there is the Al Gore/Bill Clinton, End Run Scandal.

[PGalt]

Thanks so much for your hard work in exposing more of the anti-freedom, Democratic Crime Syndicate.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Thanks! Have begun emailing and posting this info on other forums. Great job, PKM.

[Landru]

We had better spread the word, M'am; becuase if we rely on the Lamestream media (~in their entirety) to tell the real story here complete with names, dates, & places?
The Leftist-Socialist fraud as it is now will easily be perpetuated.

The Lamestream knows about all of this stuff & I dare say a good deal more, at that.
The Leftist-Socialist media has made a conscious decision to mislead, misinform, omit, spin, obfuscate & if need be, LIE.
Just as they've been doing all along???

...& our Leftist-Socialist Party would *love* nothing better, too.

[bandleader]

GREAT JOB!!It is obvious why"LOSERMAN"fails to subpoena Mr.Rubin to appear before his committee!!!The "TRAIL"doesn't lead to "W" and Cheney,it leads straight to "BeelzeBubba" and ALGORE!!!!

[PhiKapMom]

Thanks much! More of this type of information is being investigated right now. This website is the only place we know to get this information out to a wide audience.

It sure doesn't look like LIEberman or the mainstream press care to investigate just where this all leads and why Rubin made the calls. Doesn't seem to suit their agenda of pinning everything on this Administration. Then I might ask -- What is the press' agenda? Seems to me it parallels the DemocRAT agenda from most of the media sources with a very few exceptions!

Landru -- you are so right -- headed right back at clinton/gore!

[Freemeorkillme]

FReeping away. I suggest we also include this article detailing David M. Walker's attempts to sue Dick Cheney over details of administration meetings with Enron execs and Walker's relationship to Arther Anderson. Here http://ToogoodReports.com/column/general/mostert/20020206.htm

Here's the article.

David M. Walker, a 1998 Clinton appointee who is General Comptroller of Congress´ financial watchdog, the Government Accounting Office, announced last week that a suit will shortly be filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against Vice-President Dick Cheney. Democrats Henry Waxman of California and John Dingall of Michigan Walker on April 19, 2001, long before Enron was a factor, demanded that Walker use his investigative authority to force Cheney to release the names of each person present and the minutes at each meeting of the National Energy Policy Development Group (NEPDG) which Cheney chaired.

In his January 30, 2002 (1) letter Walker also repeated his request for the names of the professional staff assigned to provide support to NEPDG, who did each of the members of the NEPDG (including the Vice President as Chair) and its support staff meet with to gather information for the National Energy Policy, including the date, subject and location of meeting and a listing of "What direct and indirect costs were incurred in developing the National Energy Policy."

The Vice President wrote back that the GAO, as an arm of the Legislative Branch of government, does not have the authority to request those records from the Executive Branch, under the constitution. And, in fact, Title 31 of the U.S. Code, (Subtitle III, Chapter 35, Section 3524) (2) which governs the General Accounting Offices states that the "Comptroller General may audit expenditures accounted for only on the approval, authorization or certificate of the President or an official of the executive."

However, David M. Walker, was brought into his present job by President Clinton directly from his post as a partner and global managing director of Arthur Andersen LLP's human capital services practice and a member of the board of Arthur Andersen Financial Advisors (3), the firm that was Enron´s auditor and financial advisor – until January 2002, well after its December 4, 2001 bankruptcy.

With that background, Walker stated in his January 30, 2002 letter threatening to sue the Vice President that he believes he has the authority to have other documents that are totally unrelated to audit procedures. He admits that "the NEPDG did provide some cost related documents to the GAO" which is what would be needed for a financial audit,.

In fact, Walker also reveals in that letter his true goal by stating that the Vice-President´s refusal to furnish information on which the Vice-President talked to and what they talked about would "insulate" the President and Vice-President´s "activities from oversight and public scrutiny" of the Congress through the auspices of the General Accounting Office.

This is an obvious spin. Are we all supposed to just not notice that the Comptroller General of GAO really has NO constitutional right to demand to be, in effect, a note-taking entity at every executive office meeting? Furthermore, are we all supposed to just ignore Walker´s very serious conflict of interest in his supposed concern over Enron? Should he not put himself on the witness stand to explain exactly what his role was, as global managing director of Arthur Andersen, in covering up the money spent and the political pressure exerted by the Clinton Administration in getting the now closed Dabhol Power Plant in India built?

According to the U.S. State Department, "U.S. visits to India during the first half of 1995 include First Lady Hillary Clinton, (4) Commerce Secretary Brown, Energy Secretary O'Leary, Defense Secretary Perry and Treasury Secretary Rubin. Economic relations also got a boost from the creation of the U.S.-India Commercial Alliance to promote deepening economic ties in infrastructure and food processing and the revitalized U.S. - India Economic/Commercial Sub commission to strengthen policy dialogue."

What was so interesting in 1995 in India that so many Clinton cabinet members, and even the First Lady, visited there? What was of interest was Enron´s $3 billion Power Plant. In fact, Enron was the single largest foreign investor in India. The State Department´s 1996 India Country Commercial Guide stated, "Thirty percent of the cumulative foreign investment approvals is in the fuels' sector. In this, the pace of conversion of approvals into actual inflow would be slow and low, particularly in the power industry where there are reappraisals of some proposals of foreign companies."

Those reappraisals concerned Enron´s Daphol Power plant that would produce electricity at four times the costs of existing Indian power plants. While the World Bank refused to loan money on the Daphol Power Plant, saying it was not "viable," through considerable Clinton Administration political pressure, including threats that investments in India would stop, the Enron plant was constructed. In fact, it appears, the problems were "ironed out" when Enron CEO Kenneth Lay accompanied Commerce Secretary Ron Brown to India on a "trade mission" in January 1995 (5) In India, Enron signed a contract for a 2,000 megawatt power plant in Dahbol worth an estimated $400 million. Enron also won a contract to build a $920 million power plant on the West coast of India and a $1.1 billion contract for offshore gas and oil production. (5)

The Dabhol plant was built. However, it closed down in April 2001 – just about the time Representatives Henry Waxman and John Dingall decided that the 3-month-old Bush Administration needed to be "investigated for its misbehavior over energy.

So, today, what are the media, and the Democrats talking about? Are we talking about the key person in the Enron-Arthur Andersen scandal heading up an investigation of the Vice-President?

No.

Are we hearing lots of stories about the impact of the loss of Enron´s $3 billion investment in the Indian power plant as a possible factor in its bankruptcy?

No.

We are hearing a LOT about how Bush and Cheney was a "friend" of Kenneth Lay and Enron and refused to put price controls on California energy prices "to help Enron." Yet, because of, or in spite of, the lack of price controls, the cost of energy in California dropped, rather suddenly, and then Enron went bankrupt.

Could it be that the drop in energy prices, and the $3 billion loss in India had something to do with Enron´s bankruptcy? After all, Northern California´s biggest energy producer Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), went bankrupt 8 months before Enron went bankrupt.

We don´t hear a word about PG&E from the media these days, but a lot about Enron. Could it be that some clever spinmeister has concluded that an investigation of Dick Cheney is a good cover to avoid too many questions about what was going on with Enron and the Clinton Administration a few years ago?

Links to References

(1) http://www.gao.gov/ See: Decision of the Comptroller General concerning NEPDG Litigation, January 30, 2002.

(2) http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/31/3524.html - Title 31 of the U.S. Code, (Subtitle III, Chapter 35, Section 3524

(3) http://www.gao.gov/ - See: Biography of Comptroller General of the United States – David M. Walker

(4)http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/economics/commercial_guides/India.html - See End of guide following Appendix D -

(5) http://www.publicintegrity.org/rbrown2.html - Public Integrity – Tripping With the Secretary: Ron Brown's Foreign Trade Missions - See Enron Corporation

[PhiKapMom]

Thank you so much for adding this on the thread. You are so right! This is absolutely a great addition to this thread and needs to be included.

Don't you get the feeling this is just the tip of the iceberg with these folks? Everytime you research one thing, a lot more turn up. I knew the clinton Administration was corrupt, but the extent of corruptness has me stunned and I didn't think that was possible!

[VOA]

Wow...that's enough research that I'll be back this weekend for a fuller read.

And bump for visibility/publicity!

[Fracas]

Thanks for reading all our research!

Bandleader, you are so right about the hearings. We decided to post this research to help people connect the dots, and to provide the Senate Committee with a little 'encouragement' to ask the right questions.

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