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To: Mr. Whist who wrote (10064)	6/16/2001 12:43:37 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

A news item you won't read in the NY Times. LOL Friday June 15, 2001; 6:10 p.m. EDT Reno Dodges Clinton Honesty Question newsmax.com Former Attorney General Janet Reno won't say whether she thinks her former boss, Bill Clinton, is an honest man -- no matter how hard she's pressed on the question. Fox News Channel's Paula Zahn did her best to pin the Florida gubenatorial hopeful down on the Clinton-honesty question Thursday night when Reno guested on her show "The Edge." But the FNC newswoman might as well have been trying to nail jello to the wall. With each question, Reno grew more sphinx-like, offering answers no more responsive than old toy Eight Ball. Still, to her credit, Zahn gamely pressed ahead. If the former attorney general takes her hostage-video speaking style out on the stump, it's going to be a long campaign. ZAHN: On the issue of your former boss -- Dan Rather of CBS News was recently a guest and on our show he called Bill Clinton an honest man. Is that the way you view Bill Clinton? RENO: The way I view Bill Clinton is that he's one of the smartest, most intelligent people that I've ever met. He has a tremendous knowledge of government. He understands people and he was always straightforward and dealt directly with me. ZAHN: Well, do you agree with Dan Rather, then -- that he's an honest man? RENO: I think he's made some big mistakes. ZAHN: And what do you think were those big mistakes? RENO: I think he should have been more straightforward on the issues that resulted in the impeachment. ZAHN: And you -- a lot of people think he lied directly to the American public. Did he lie directly to you? RENO: (Pause) I think that he has made some big mistakes and I think candor is necessary in that position. ZAHN: So when you're not candid are you telling a lie? RENO: (Pause) I think it's important to be as truthful as you can and I think it's now time to move on to other issues. ZAHN: You may think it's time to move on but I was just wondering, in a personal sense, if you at any point of working with Mr. Clinton felt let down by his behavior? RENO: I think any time you watch somebody make a big mistake and, having been in the position where you were making so many wonderful steps forward for this country, it hurts. ZAHN: And did it hit you in a personal way? RENO: It just strikes me as -- here's a man with tremendous knowledge of government who cares so much, who can relate so well to people. And I want to see him succeed in all that he was trying to do in terms of reducing crime, in terms of building the economy, in terms of giving far more Americans wonderful opportunities to partcipate in the American dream. I don't like to see things interrupted on the way.

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (10064)	6/16/2001 12:45:29 AM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 59480

A news item you won't see in on CNN, CBS or NBC...LOL Friday, June 15, 2001, 1:53 p.m. EDT Bush Energy Foe Barbara Boxer Invested in Cheney's Company newsmax.com Bush energy policy critic Sen. Barbara Boxer, D -Calif., is heavily invested in two energy companies that are key players in California's energy crisis - as well as an oil services firm formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney. "Boxer's holdings, with her husband Stewart, include up to $100,000 in El Paso Corp. stock," reported Friday's San Jose Mercury News. "The firm is the subject of an inquiry into whether it used control of a natural gas pipeline to drive up prices [in California] last year." Boxer also has investments in Mirant, a power wholesaler formerly known as Southern Energy, Diamond Offshore Drilling in Houston and Haliburton Energy Services Corp. Before last November's election, Cheney had been chief operating officer of Haliburton for seven years. During the campaign, Boxer was sharply critical of Cheney, even as she raked in profits from the company he ran. "We've got an oil man here. That means we have two oil men on the [GOP] ticket at a time when oil is going way up and people are upset," she complained. Just days before her energy company holdings were made public as part of the Senate's financial disclosure rules, Boxer was still publicly attacking the vice president and the businesses in which she was secretly invested. "We made a heartfelt plea, we Democrats in the delegation, to the vice president, that we need some action against this price gouging," she told CNN. "You know, we haven't even seen the Bush administration call in these generating conmpanies, whose profits, in some cases, have gone up 1,000 percent." When confronted with the embarrassing details of her portfolio, Boxer told the Mercury News that she "leaves investment decisions to a professional" but would soon order that her energy stocks be sold.