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Bombshell: US Attorney General removes himself in Enron case	Archived 01/10/02 3:50pm
White House: Enron Official Phoned, The "Enronomics" Scandal Deepens


BOMBSHELL: ENRON DOCUMENTS DISAPPEAR OR WERE THEY DESTROYED? WHAT DO YOU THINK? WE NEED A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR IMMEDIATELY. THE COVER-UP HAS ALREADY BEGUN. WHO WILL HONESTLY INVESTIGATE BUSH/CHENEY/ASHCROFT "ENRONOMICS" ? 1/11 Enron is not Bush's Whitewater: It will be worse 1/10 ENRON AND THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION: JOINED AT THE HIP BUZZFLASH HOT ITEM: Vigorous Investigation of Ashcroft by the Justice Department? Don't Count on It. Ashcroft Received $50,000 in Campaign Contributions from Enron in His Failed Senate Bid, And There's More... 1/10 Through the Carlyle Group, Papa Bush and the Bush Family Stand to Make Big Money off of Arms Build Up and Saudi Arabian Relationship 1/10 White House Was a Home For Enron 1/11 FIGHT BACK AGAINST RUSH, ANN COULTER AND O'REILLY, SUPPORT BUZZFLASH.COM RECEIVE "TALIBAN: Militant Islam, Oil & Fundamentalism in Central Asia" With a $30 Voluntary Subscription to BuzzFlash.com. Yale University Press, #1 on the NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller List (Paperback Nonfiction) THE REAL CLASS WARRIORS ARE REPUBLICANS A Prophetic Speech in 1997 by John P. O'Neill, Then Chief of International Terrorism Operations for the FBI. He is the Man Who Alleged the Bush Administration Played Footsie with the Taliban in Order to Get an Oil Pipeline in Afghanistan. 1/10 Enron's Creditors: Y'all Come Back To Texas 1/10 Saudi Arabia, says former CIA Director James Woolsey, "deserves a very large part of the blame for Sept. 11." 1/10 Get News Fast! Sign up for BuzzFlash Alerts, the fastest and easiest way to keep abreast of breaking news and commentary (see bottom of the right column). Click here for the latest alert. Is George W. Bush God’s President? by Joe Conason 1/10 The January 10th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American Taliban, al-Qaeda prisoners may be sedated for trip 1/10 The Grand Hypocrisy Party (GHP) and Enron Frolic in Bed Together, While the Press Still is Chasing Monica Stories 1/10 U.S. Military Plane Carrying 7 Marines Crashes, Other Passengers May Have Been on Board 1/10 Iran Exerts Sway on Afghan Border, Worrying the U.S. 1/10 Enron executives who dumped stock were heavy donors to Bush 1/10 GOP Senator wants copies of internal FBI probe 1/10 You Mean Bush Can Play John Wayne, But He Can't Stop Our Afghan Allies from Freeing Top Taliban Leaders? Well, Mr. Bush, As We Say in Texas, "You're All Hat and No Cattle" 1/10 FLASHBACK: Consortium formed to build Central Asia gas pipeline 1/10 GAO to Decide Within One Month on Suing White House 1/10 New U.S. Envoy to Afghanistan Lobbied for Taliban Oil Rights 1/10 "What I do want to observe is that Andrew Sullivan perfectly reflects the broken logic of America's right wing these days." 1/10 Message to Marc Racicot: You Ain't Foolin' BuzzFlash 1/10 New NASA Chief Sees Closer Ties to the Pentagon 1/10 Are there Gays at Jerry Falwell's "Liberty University"? Bless My Soul! 1/10 BUZZFLASH BREAKING NEWS: MORE ON THE BOOK THAT SAYS THE BUSH OIL INTERESTS BACKED OFF WAR ON TERRORISM PRIOR TO SEPTEMBER 11TH 1/9 ANOTHER ARTICLE ABOUT THE BRAVE FBI AGENT WHO BELIEVED THAT THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION BETRAYED THE WAR ON TERROR FOR A POSSIBLE OIL PIPELINE 1/9 WEDNESDAY UPDATED CNN TRANSCRIPT, BOOK CHARGES THAT BUSH ADMINISTRATION WAS GOING TO STRIKE A DEAL WITH THE TALIBAN IN RETURN FOR OIL PIPELINE RIGHTS, PRIOR TO SEPTEMBER 11TH. THAT WOULD BE UNCONSCIONABLE, WOULDN'T IT? You Bet the Carlyle Group Will Benefit from the War on Terrorism 1/10 "Nuclear bombs and missiles in the U.S. arsenal contain batteries manufactured by a defense contractor whose workers say knowingly produced faulty batteries" 1/10 ""All the answers, everything needed to dismantle Osama bin Laden's organization, can be found in Saudi Arabia," O'Neill is quoted as saying in the book." 1/10 DOE Set to Approve Nuclear Storage Facility at Yucca Mountain 1/10 Your Driver's License is in the Process of Becoming a National Identification Card, However They Want to Disguise the Fact 1/10 Bush Administration Actually May Do Something for People in Need? No, Not Possible. 1/10 "In a break with the historical pattern for a nonelection year, record amounts of money are being put into lobbying and campaign finance on Capitol Hill." 1/10 Moyers can't resist PBS' offer to lead another news show 1/10 Miss America is Behind Bush 100% 1/10 Reich to Run for Governor of Massachusetts 1/10 Buchanan's Apocalypse Now 1/10 The January 9th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia Here Comes the Bush Incoporated Campaign to Justify the Missile Defense Shield "Make the Defense Contractors Rich" Sham 1/10 The Right Wing Media Ignores "Patriotic" Osama Sympathizer. Why, Because He Was from Florida and They Don't Want to Imply that Somebody from Jeb's State Might Raise a Wayward Boy? Just Asking. 1/10 U.S. Refueling Plane Crashes 1/10 Fifty-one subpoenas seeking documents on thecollapse of Enron Corp. will be issued on Friday 1/10 Only in America: The Pink Pistols 1/10	Will the Justice Department Really Investigate Enron? 1/10 Federal Judge Rejects State Funding for Faith-Based Program in Milwaukee 1/10 U.S. Ends Car Plan on Gas Efficiency; Looks to Fuel Cells 1/10 Another New Year's Resolution: Better Medicine, A BUZZFLASH CONTRIBUTION 1/10 "Two world-renowned figures have been on the run, living in "undisclosed locations" since Sept. 11. There are occasional sightings of both, but then they vanish. One figure is named Osama bin Laden. The other is named Dick Cheney." 1/10 Hell to Pay 1/10 THE RESURRECTION OF COINTELPRO 1/10 Blame-and-Bash-Clinton Media Misses A Few 'Inconvenient' Facts 1/10 Co. 118's Heroic Last Run: Doomed Crew Saved Hundreds at WTC Hotel 1/10 U.S. Cyber Security Weakening 1/10 Forget About George F. Will's Pretentious, Snooty Attacks on Persons Who Seek Justice. BuzzFlash Just Finds Mr. "Peeps" Will Plain Creepy. 1/10 Dining for Dollars with Jeb Bush in Texas (Read Down in Story) 1/10 Economic Dreamland 1/10 India's deadly defence: the 1,800 mile long minefield 1/10 "CALL-CENTER DECEIT" by Jim Hightower 1/10 "All in all," President Bush said of 2001, "it's been a fabulous year for Laura and me." OH MY GOD, WHAT ABOUT SEPTEMBER 11TH , ANTHRAX, AND A RECESSION? FLASHBACK: How Bush Dodged Service in Vietnam 1/10 Bush bars some Justice agencies from union activity 1/10 EDISON SCHOOLS Inc. paid $85,000 to four politically connected professional firms to help make its way into the Philadelphia community, sources say. 1/10 AIRLINE LOBBYISTS PUT BOTTOM LINE AHEAD OF SECURITY, ACCORDING TO NEW COMMON CAUSE ANALYSIS 1/10 Another American Gun Nut: This One Wanted to Shoot up a Nuclear Power Plant 1/10 Carlyle's Way: Making a mint inside "the iron triangle" of defense, government and industry 1/10 Pentagon, GAO asked to study National Guard 1/10 Flynt Loses Round in Access Fight 1/10 NY Office Vacancies Surge 1/10 Why militant Islamicists in Central Asia aren't going to go away, by Ahmed Rashid 1/9 Bush Resumes Fund-Raising for Party 1/10 "A legislative watchdog agency says Florida's attempt to privatize job training for disabled residents has caused costs to increase dramatically while services deteriorated." Good Job, Jebster. Your Stuff Works Just Like Georgie's. 1/10 Media's Patriotism Provides a Shield for Bush 1/10 Education bill has odd beneficiaries 1/10 Enron Reps Met 6 Times with Cheney or His Staff 1/9 NEW HEAD OF RNC LOBBIES FOR POLLUTION: The Bush administration is considering relaxing clean-air standards for power plants, which environmentalists and Northeastern states strongly oppose and the energy industry favors. 1/9 Canada's Shooting Gallery 1/10 TUESDAY CNN TRANSCRIPT CHARGING BUSH ADMINISTRATION WENT SOFT ON TALIBAN PRIOR TO SEPTEMBER 11th IN EXCHANGE FOR OIL PIPELINE RIGHTS, BEFORE FINAL EDIT 1/9 America's Shooting Gallery: Utah State Capitol 1/10 Saudi royalty, it is claimed, make out like bandits on U.S. deals 1/10 REPOSTED: Bin Laden Brother Gets French Book Banned in Switzerland. Book Says U.S. and Taliban Were Negotiating for Oil Pipeline. 12/31 America's Shooting Gallery: In Alaska, Even the Mentally Ill Have the Right to Bear Arms. You've Got to be Nuts to Come up With Such a Decision. 1/10 U.S. Officials Say Palestinean Authority was Involved with Arms Shipment 1/10 Enron Met With Bush Energy Task Force, Raising Question of Its Influence on Policy 1/9 Govt., Carmakers Plan to Eliminate Gas Engines: We'll Believe It When We See It 1/10 "Bernard Goldberg, the one-time CBS News correspondent and full-time addlepated windbag who is trying to make a second career out of trashing his former employer." 1/9 Kerry Mulls 2004 Presidential Race 1/9 U.S. corporations skip on paying taxes, only now it’s legal 1/9 Let Down His Rich Pals? Over His Dead Body 1/9 Oil Pipelines in the Caspian Area: Afghanistan is a Prime Route 1/9 Bush Administration Gives Corporate America "A Get Out of Jail Free Card" 1/9 It's Official: Clarence Thomas Told a Boo-Boo! 1/9 Governor Martz, Will You Come and Do Our Laundry? 1/9	The Real American Taliban 1/9 A New Worry About an Old Concern: Health Care 1/9 Naive Bush slights Pakistanis with a short-cut 1/9 Dick Cheney cashed out his Halliburton stock at the right time. 1/9 Iran Implicated by Captain in Seized Weapons Shipment 1/9 "Enron Metals and Commodity Corp., an Enron subsidiary used by the former highflyers to give them a toe-hold to file for bankruptcy here, is nothing but a sham, a group of Enron creditors said." 1/11 Argentina asks oil companies for $1.2bn in aid 1/11 BLAST FROM THE PAST: Oil barons court Taliban in Texas (They Courted, But Ultimately Their Was No Consummation of the Relationship) 1/10 Setback in fight against Afghan heroin trade 1/11 Stun Gun Will Be Marketed to Public 1/11 Police say Fort Bend boy planned to set off bombs at junior high 1/11 A BLAST FROM THE PAST TELLS IT ALL: BUSH'S "ECONOMIC STIMULUS PLAN" IS JUST ENRONOMICS BY ANOTHER NAME Rascally Marc Racicot 1/11 "The president could not bring himself to admit that his $1.35-trillion, decade-long tax cut will virtually guarantee deficits for years to come." 1/11 AMERICA'S SHOOTING GALLERY: Alabama Woman accused of shooting son inside his hospital psychiatric ward 1/11 Supreme Court will decide if HMO patients are entitled to outside review of medical decisions 1/11 White House Moves to Contain Political Damage From Enron Turmoil 1/11 PAKISTAN GETS GOP HELP, including Phil Gramm, Tom Delay, and the WSJ's John Fund 1/11 Trust Names Wendy Lee Gramm The Clean Air 'Villain of the Month' 1/11 "Don't Gut the Clean Air Act" 1/11 FLASHBACK 1997: Taliban in Texas for talks on gas pipeline 1/7 Vietnam and the Bill O'Reilly Nothing But Spin Zone, A BUZZFLASH CONTRIBUTION 1/7 A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION: The Ballad of Poor Kenneth Lay 1/4 "Cleaning Evidence" is Okay for this Republican Governor. It's the GOP Double Standard at Work. 1/6 IN CASE YOU MISSED IT OVER THE HOLIDAYS: BUZZFLASH INTERVIEWS CONGRESSMAN HENRY WAXMAN ON ENRON. A MUST READ, REPOSTED ON 1/2 Bush Gubernatorial Records Should Be Available Under Texas Law, Not Kept 1/9 President wants Senate to hurry with new anti-terrorism law, But Trent Lott and Orrin Hatch Remain Key Obstructionists (1996) BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL COMMENTARY: EVEN MORE ON THAT GOPAC MEMO AND THE WASHINGTON TIMES ATTACK ON BUZZFLASH AND DEMOCRATS AND PROGRESSIVES 12/31 Faith in democracy is crucial, Moyers says. Bill Moyers for President! 1/6 LEARN MORE ABOUT THE U.S GERM WARFARE PROGRAM. Contribute to BuzzFlash.com and receive the #1 Bestseller: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War: Germs. Former Political Director of Newt Gingrich's GOPAC Claims BuzzFlash is Full of "Profanity Laced Vitriol." He must Have Confused us with Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Chris Matthews, Karl Rove and Newt. We're Choir Boys and Girls at BuzzFlash.com. 12/29 BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: MORE ON GOPAC 12/30 "But if more people intended to vote for Gore than for Bush in Florida -- as they surely did -- then it is a crime against democracy that he did not win the state and thus the presidency." FOR $35.00, RECEIVE JEFFREY TOOBIN'S "TOO CLOSE TO CALL." THE CAMPUS VOICE: Grad students go to court for the right to unionize, from the University of Pennsylvania Daily Pennsylvanian 1/10 THE LIGHTER SIDE: Rush Limbaugh Online 1/8 Was Mullah Omar, Who Allegedly Escaped on a Motorcycle, a Steve McQueen Fan? 1/8 This Article About Karl Rove and the Crew Trying to Figure Out What President Bush is Like is Laughable 1/10 THE TOP TEN CONSERVATIVE IDIOTS IS BACK! 1/7 George Bush Wants You to be a GOP Team Leader! (This is Not a Parody Site. It's for Real.) 1/6 Pitching in for a Better Tomorrow 1/8 Dubya's Dayly Diary Interviews Dick Cheney 1/9 Register Yourself as a Patriot 1/10 "Anybody Who Says My Daddy is Making a Bundle Off of Working with Saudis is a Terrorist," Bush Tells a Visiting Dignitary 1/10 Tom Tomorrow's Comprehensive Guide to the Enron Collapse 1/8 GET A BUZZFLASH.COM T-SHIRT AND SPREAD THE NEWS! ENRON AND THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION: JOINED AT THE HIP Register for BuzzFlash.com email updates

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White House: Enron Official Phoned, The "Enronomics" Scandal Deepens