Great job PKM! AlBore, der Sinkmeister, and all the other Democraps started something they can't control. Ron Brown and the rest of the Klintoon admin. was in bed with the ChiComs and anyone else who would fork over campaign loot--legal or illegal. Your research is great. Thanks so much. And BTTT.
Another bump for "mom's" great work. AlBore and the Klintoons loved Enron and anyone one else who would line their pockets. Bore, the boy of a thousand faces, is just as dirty as Klintoon. The truth will out.
Wow, what a great resource this will be. Thank you so much!
I e-mailed every media outlet, local and national I can think of as well as my congressman. My two senators, Wellstone & Dayton, I fear, would only take the info and head it off at the pass. They are useless.
I did forward it to Mark Racicot though with a note to find somebody, ANYBODY, that isn't afraid to step up to the plate and defend Republicans against the vicious attacks charging us with being the corrupt party, in bed with the corrupt corporations, and get him/her out, front & center, ASAP!
No, I don't want a McAuliffe like shill representing us, but I would like somebody that isn't so "nice"!
Thanks again
Why am I not surprised Clinon & Gore were heavily involved with Enron? This is the kind of research you won't find on the Dan Blather show or the rest of the left-wing so-called "mainstream" media. Thanks for the good work. I hope many more read this.
Amazing post. I will pass it all over the place, and here's a humongous BUMP for your efforts.
Quite a bttt.
Hi there PhiKapMom....phenomenal showing of hard dilligent research.I'm proud of you.GO SOONERS!
Wow, PKM, you've done a fantastic job pulling this together! I'll do just as you suggest in passing this info on.
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.
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!!!!
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
Good job. Taking it to the streets, armed with the information that matters.
