How Enron Worked the President

[Racerbvd]

How Enron Worked the President
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How Enron Worked the President!

(This is an interesting bit of information that you will not hear much about in the media.)

1. Enron's chairman did meet with the president and the vice president in the Oval Office.

2. Enron gave $420,000 to the president's party over three years.

3. It donated $100,000 to the president's inauguration festivities.

4. The Enron chairman stayed at the White House 11 times.

5. The corporation had access to the administration at its highest level and even enlisted the Commerce and State Departments to grease deals for it.

6. The taxpayer-supported Export-Import Bank subsidized Enron for more than $600 million in just one transaction alone.

Scandalous huh?



(Look below ..... )

BUT... the president under whom all this happened was NOT George W. Bush.


SURPRISE!


It was President Bill Clinton!

Pass this on so the whole Country will know. The Media Won't!

ARE WE REALLY READY FOR MRS. CLINTON?

[techweenie]

Excerpt:

White House Acknowledges More Contacts With Enron

By RICHARD A. OPPEL JR.
Published: May 23, 2002

White House officials had more extensive contacts with Enron executives in 2001 than previously disclosed, according to a document released by the Bush administration today in response to a request for information from a Senate committee.

The document describes contacts -- including meetings, phone conversations, letters and e-mail messages -- that concerned the national energy policy report produced by Vice President Dick Cheney, the California energy crisis, Enron's collapse last fall and appointments to administration posts, including the head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

The White House document also disclosed that Enron executives, including Kenneth L. Lay, the former chairman, attended numerous White House functions, including the 2001 inaugural, the Easter Egg roll, T-ball games, speeches and social events.

The release of the information came hours after a deeply divided Senate panel voted to issue two subpoenas to the White House for information about contacts with Enron, with Democrats accusing the White House of resisting earlier requests for information and Republicans suggesting that the move was politically motivated.

The White House document released today was prepared in response to an earlier request for information from the Governmental Affairs Committee, whose chairman is Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, the former Democratic vice presidential nominee. While it came after the subpoena was issued, it was not a legal response to it.

Aides to Mr. Lieberman said tonight that after a brief review of the document, the panel regards it as short of the information being sought. ''It appears the White House is still providing only what it thinks is relevant, rather than what the committee asked for,'' said Leslie Phillips, a spokeswoman for the committee. ''We just don't know if the information is everything they collected, or just what they're willing to tell us. This would not have in any way averted a subpoena.''

Before the White House document was released, a spokeswoman said administration officials were ''rather perplexed'' that the panel had ''taken this highly unusual step to issue subpoenas without having reviewed'' the material.

The vote in the Governmental Affairs Committee this morning was 9 to 8 along party lines to issue the subpoenas. It came after more than an hour's debate that included a heated exchange between Mr. Lieberman and Senator Thad Cochran, Republican of Mississippi.

The subpoenas were the first issued by Congress to the executive branch in the continuing inquiry into Enron's collapse and are likely to be resisted by the White House, which has often complained that Congress is encroaching on its executive power and constitutional prerogatives.

[techweenie]

Also:

Snopes is your friend, if you care for research.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/enron.asp

[Wickd89]

What do we do??
Why do we still believe this is a great country?
Because it is! We have to right the ship and it takes each and every one of us.

Vote for change. Vote for anything that seems totally different than our current leadership. If not I hope you all have an exit plan. That is one reason I married Swiss... ;-)

[Mule]

Ron Brown was so crooked, when the plane crashed, he corkscrewed 20 feet into the ground! And here we have the king of the crack pipe thechweiner, setting us straight.

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by techweenie

Also:

Snopes is your friend, if you care for research.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/enron.asp

Doesn't say that they didn't give to President Clinton, just more to President Bush, BTW, , Enron was prosecuted & punished under President Bush's watch Guess they didn't get their what they thought they paid for, unlike those who donated to Clinton on the FBI list & terrorist that Clinton pardoned


So why do liberals love to pretend it never happened under Clinton???? Or just plain out igore it.