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Enron execs 'cooked the books,' Attorney Charges		Archived 01/14/02 4:51pm
Cheney Better Come Clean On Enron


Ken Lay's E-mail to Enron Employees Assuring Them of the Company's Strength (needs adobe) 1/15 Henry Waxman Has a Few Questions to Ask Ken Lay. Read the Letter. (Adobe Required) 1/14 "President Bush fainted briefly in the White House residence Sunday after choking on a pretzel while watching a National Football League playoff game on television" 1/14 KEEP BUZZFLASH.COM A STRONG, INDEPENDENT VOICE! Bush Says He Feels Fine, Despite Large Bruise on Face 1/15 Bush's Chief of Staff Was Told of Enron's Call for Help. What Did Bush Know and When Did He Know It? 1/15 HERE IS PROOF THAT THE GRAND HYPOCRISY PARTY POOHBAHS DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND HOW UNETHICAL THEY ARE: MARC RACICOT CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY IT WOULD BE WRONG TO BE RNC CHAIRMAN AND LOBBY FOR ENRON AT THE SAME TIME 1/14 Who's Accountable for Enron? 1/14 The Bush Administration Has Been Awfully Quiet about the Shoe Bomber's Al-Qaeda Connections. Why? 1/14 ENRON SPIN CYCLE 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. Bush's Biggest Donors Gain From High Prices in California Crunch 1/15 Despite President's Denials, Enron & Lay Were Early Backers of Bush 1/15 Was Phil Gramm's retirement from the Senate in early September tied to the Enron debacle? 1/15 Enron Document Destruction Examined 1/15 Enron's internet monster 1/15 Silencing the Alarm at Enron 1/15 Officials support national ID plan 1/15 Against the Enron End-Run 1/15 "Despite hydrogen's immense promise, the administration's plan is in fact a setback for greater near-term fuel efficiency, for reducing our reliance on Middle Eastern oil and for slowing global warming." 1/15 Army Corps Changes Wetlands Rules 1/15 Big Oops in Listing of W Aide. Oh Yeah, Sure, Right! 1/15 "A frequent flier on Enron corporate jets, Bush received $774,100 from Enron management and the company itself including $312,500 for his campaigns for governor." 1/15 Ken Lay Threatens India With Sanctions 1/15 FROM THE ARCHIVES: "Wendy [Gramm], under President Reagan and President Bush, served as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission" 1/15 Message to Democratic Party: Stand up for Justice. Don't Wimp Out! 1/15 Writers on the Right 1/15 Mr. Enron & His Buddy Mr. President 1/15 Enron collapse stirs echoes of '80s savings and loan woes. 1/15 US warns India on Enron 1/15 The Bush-Enron Lovefest Connections (updated as often as we can) 1/15 U.S. Advisers to Expand War on Terror to Philippines 1/15 America quietly changes war aim 1/15 Top Bush official savaged over Enron comment 1/15 Moscow demands new arms treaty with US 1/15 FROM THE ARCHIVES: George W. Bush Gets Layed 1/15 "George Will needs to do his homework quite a bit better." 1/15 "Accidental" Fall Kills Missing Anthrax Scientist. 1/15 Conservatism Flunks Its Finals, Part II 1/15 The greatest success yet this session of Congress has been its failure to pass an economic stimulus bill. 1/15 Will the Justice Department Investigate Enron or Conduct a Damage Control Operation for the Bush Administration? A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY 1/13 At Enron, The Rich Got Richer 1/15 "The stench that surrounds Enron's collapse must alert Britain's politicians to the corrupting influence of unregulated capitalism." 1/15 "According to both the Washington Post and the Washington Times, the current phase of the campaign to turn Daschle into Satan was ordered by the President himself." 1/15 How to create a phony power crisis: The Bush-Enron connection 1/15 Lawmaker sees 'strong evidence' of insider trading at Enron 1/15 "This lawsuit should have been filed by the mainstream press, not me. But I think they're too worried about who is going to get the next interview with George and Laura Bush." 1/15 Former Enron CEO Made 1/15 Snapshot of Professional and Economic Interests Reveals Close Ties Between Government, Business 1/15 Disgraceful handling of Indian trust fund continues 1/15 Teen Pilot May Have Targeted Fla. Military Base 1/15 America's Shooting Gallery: Man shoots estranged wife, himself 1/15		Bush moves worry environmentalists; Businesses want to weaken Air Act 1/15 EVERYONE KNOWS IT’S WENDY (last 3 paragraphs) 1/15 GRAND HYPOCRISY PARTY AT ITS MOST BRAZEN 1/15 The land of the free becomes the home of the hypocrite 1/15 Bush chief of staff aware of Enron call 1/15 If You're Over 50 and You Have an Opinion About Bush and Enron, You Should Vote in this Poll (left column) 1/15 The January 14th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American "We know that they were trading fast and loose with offshore corporate entities that were hiding their debt from the public," said Lieberman 1/14 BuzzFlash Presents "The Angry Liberal" - Enron, Part I: R.M.S. Enron Sails for America! Two Bush Cabinet Members Claim They Never Told Bush of Enron's Problems. Treasury Head O'Neill Says What's the Big Deal, Anyway? Then Why Does Bush Advocate "Enronomics" for America? 1/14 The January 14th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia Tom Wales Fought for Gun Control. Maybe He Died for It. 1/14 "Bush and his administration have been revealed as entwined in a story of corporate greed and political manipulation by an energy firm called Enron, now under double criminal investigation." 1/14 "The SEC’s Ms. Harlan declined to comment on whether Mr. Pitt will recuse himself from the Enron probe." 1/14 "Mr. Lay made no secret with us about his close relationship with the president and the White House and so on. We've been told that he in fact says things like, "I'll help you with what you need politically" (READ DOWN THIS INTERVIEW) 1/14 Just Call It the EPA WHITMANGATE 1/14 Democrats May Advance Dates of Primaries 1/14 "If this memo is what it looks like, I'm afraid that the folks at Arthur Andersen could be on the other end of an indictment before this is over," Sen. Joseph Lieberman 1/14 Enron's Failed Power Play 1/14 Enron: Countdown to a Scandal 1/14 Reformist Iranian Parliament Members Stage Walkout Over Crackdown by Right Wing Hardliners 1/14 Opening the Caspian Oil Tap 1/14 States Face Hard Choices on Medicaid Cuts 1/14 ENRON AND STAFF ARE THE NUMBER ONE SOURCE OF BUSH CAMPAIGN FUNDS: GOP "ENRONOMICS" AT WORK Before Debacle, Enron Insiders Cashed in $1.1 Billion in Shares 1/13 "Al Qaeda militants practiced carrying out a mass assassination of world leaders and an attack on a motorcade, according to a video obtained in Afghanistan" 1/14 A Brief Backgrounder to Enrongate and Enronomics 11/4 It's Time to Give the Saudis an Ultimatum 1/14 Why Giuliani was wrong for Time's `Person of the Year' 1/14 Missing in Action, the Democratic Party in Ohio 1/14 Biography of Karl Rove. Notice No Military Service. Just Another Grand Hypocriscy Party Chicken Hawk, Along with Cheney, Ashcroft and Bush. 1/14 They're Busted In Shell Game, by Jimmy Breslin 1/14 Enron: Now the IRS Joins the Hunt 1/14 Euro MPs Plead for Nigerian Woman in Stoning Death 1/14 Who Killed Enron? 1/14 Geraldo's hunt: That's entertainment 1/14 'The Old Man and the Sea' boat captain dead at 104 1/14 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. "George II was the drill instructor who taught the troops that the first -- and possibly only -- word in the Bush political vocabulary is "loyalty." Next on the Bush Family Grudge List: Saddam Hussein. 1/14 Former Enron employees deeply angered by their treatment as company went down: Americans should take note as they support a White House schooled in "Enronomics" 1/14 Bush's Soot Heaven for America 1/14 GOP image at risk in Enron saga 1/14 Ridge Says the War on Terrorism Will Take Years, Right Through the 2004 Election We're Sure 1/14 THE HOME PAGE FOR THE CARLYLE GROUP 1/14 A Message from the President, Clinton that Is 1/13 Kashmiri Militants Vow to Continue Violence Against India 1/14 We Knew There'd be Scandals 1/14 Healthcare for All in Oregon 1/14 As BuzzFlash Reported Months Ago, Bush is Trying to Keep His Papers as Governor Out of the Public Domain by Storing Them at Daddy's Library. What a Coward. 1/14 HOT ITEM: READ THIS PBS INTERVIEW WITH THE FORMER HEAD OF FERC TO LEARN THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW KEN LAY USED HIS WHITE HOUSE CLOUT TO TRY AND MUSCLE ENRON-FRIENDLY POLICIES THROUGH (READ DOWN) 1/13 Watch Out, the Carlyle Group is Getting into Publishing 1/14		ENRON EASED ITS WAY INTO FLORIDA WITH CASH FROM THE ARCHIVES: Meet Enron, Bush's Biggest Contributor 1/14 ENRON: "a culture of greed and arrogance that bred excessive secrecy." Sounds Like the White House to Us. 1/13 Saudis Tacitly Support Terrorist Network, Book Asserts 1/14 "Since 1989, Enron has made $5.8 million in campaign contributions to members of Congress. More than $700,000 went to Texans during that period, more than any other state delegation." 1/13 George W. Bush Was Shilling for Enron back in 1988, Despite What He Has Said 1/12 BUSH LIED -- AND HERE'S THE PROOF FROM THE WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG DEPARTMENT: The Bush administration is considering whether to restrict distribution of government documents that describe how to make germ weapons 1/14 Democratic Surge of Voters in New York State 1/14 From the Archives: Cheney's Questionable IPO Profits 1/14 Right Wing Organization Takes a Disgusting Rumor Mongering Shot at a Gay American Ambassador 1/14 The Republican Gravy Train 1/14 Two Texas Pols Keep Enron Donations 1/14 Collapse of Soviet Union Proved Boon to Iranian Missile Program 1/14 "To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day." Theodore Roosevelt 1/13 This debate shouldn't be about tax cuts vs. none 1/14 Henry Waxman Won't Let the Enron/Bush Administration Con Artists Off the Hook 1/13 WE NEED TO INVESTIGATE ENRON TIES TO THE WHITE HOUSE: AN INDEPENDENT COUNSEL IS CALLED FOR Comprehensible Corporate Sleaze 1/13 Henry Waxman, Our Bulldog, Demands Answers from "We Don't Need Social Security Alcoa Polluter" O'Neill and "My Qualification is that I am a Rich Guy and Contributor to the Bush Family" Evans. Go, Henry, Go! 1/13 (Adobe Needed) "Read My Lips. Not Even Stupidity Excuses Bush's 'Pakis' Slur" 1/13 What Did Bush Know and When Did He Know It? We're Not Asking You Ari. After All, We Want the Truth. 1/13 According to the Right Wingers at Free Republic, Bush DOE Granted Enron Waiver of Securities and Liability Regulations 1/13 Federal judge temporarily halts plan to move EPA ombudsman's office 1/13 White House's Failure to Sound Alarm Faulted 1/13 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) Energy Giant Has Longstanding Ties to Bush 1/13 When in Doubt, Shred It! 1/13 Liberal Bias in the Media, Look Again 1/13 Enron Insider Training 1/13 How About a Military Tribunal for Kenneth Lay? 1/13 Blast from the Past: Bush dodged Vietnam draft, court told 1/13 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: SOME THOUGHTS ON THE ENRON/BUSH ADMINISTRATION 1/13 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: ENRON MAKES WHITEWATER LOOK LIKE A PUDDLE 1/13 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Ken Lay, Enron, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) 1/12 BUZZFLASH WAS ON ENRON FROM DAY ONE: BUZZFLASH INTERVIEWS CONGRESSMAN HENRY WAXMAN ON ENRON. A MUST READ, REPOSTED ON 1/2 A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION: The Ballad of Poor Kenneth Lay 1/4 President wants Senate to hurry with new anti-terrorism law, But Trent Lott and Orrin Hatch Remain Key Obstructionists (1996) Faith in democracy is crucial, Moyers says. Bill Moyers for President! 1/6 "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: The film version of John Nash GS '50's life is a far cry from the one he has lived, from the Princeton Daily Princetonian 1/12 THE LIGHTER SIDE: I Did Not Have Improper Relations With That Woman, Miss Enron 1/14 The True Story of a GOP Survivor and Her Heroic Battle to Overcome Moral Superiority Addiction 1/15 Ironic Times 1/15 Top Ten Conservative Idiots 1/15 BUSH FAINTS, HITS HEAD, LOSES ALL MEMORY OF ENRON 1/15 The Dubya Chronicles 1/14 GET A BUZZFLASH.COM T-SHIRT AND SPREAD THE NEWS! Register for BuzzFlash.com email updates

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