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To: Dr. Doktor who wrote (217697)	1/12/2002 5:33:14 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769667

Doc, Hillary's Enron Moment LOL Democrats hoping the Enron scandal will be the beginning of the end of the Bush presidency have a problem on their hands. Call it the Clinton precedent. That is; whatever the Bush White House may or may not have done wrong as the largest energy trading company in the world slid into bankruptcy, it pales next to the misdeeds of the former first couple, who were given a pass on almost every count. Take, for instance, the most shocking allegation in the Enron scandal to date - that the world renowned accounting firm Arthur Andersen destroyed documents during its recent audit of the energy giant. Hillary's already been there - done that. In 1996 the Resolution Trust Corporation was ready to close down its probe into the Clintons' Whitewater land deal and give the first couple a clean bill of health. Then suddenly evidence emerged that Hillary personally oversaw the shredding of Whitewater-related documents just as state banking investigators began to take an interest in the S&L owned by her business partners, Jim and Susan McDougal. "Hillary Rodham Clinton ordered the destruction of documents of four files in 1988 from her work on the failed savings and loan that's now at the heart of the Whitewater affair," the Associated Press reported in Jan. 1996. "According to newly released documents, the files described her work just two years earlier for Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan, and three of them dealt with Mrs. Clinton's work on the Castle Grande.... "Mrs. Clinton said that she did not initiate the destruction, but that she earmarked the documents for disposal after the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Ark., issued a request for all lawyers to identify files they no longer needed," the AP added. At the time of Mrs. Clinton's shredding party, state banking regulators had already alleged that the Castle Grande "was a sham designed to circumvent the law restricting the amount of money an S&L can invest in its subsidiaries," the report noted. The revelation that Mrs. Clinton ordered the destruction of key evidence came just two weeks after her Castle Grande-Whitewater billing records mysteriously materialized in the White House book room after being under subpoenaed for two years. Despite the first lady's claim that it was a routine house cleaning that prompted her to dispose of evidence, Rose Law's managing partner Ron Clark later told Senate Whitewater probers that most law firms, including his, always kept records like the ones destroyed by Clinton for at least 6 years. That Hillary got away with such blatant obstruction of justice without so much as a slap on the wrist makes it pretty tough to get excited over allegations that Arthur Andersen did something far less obviously criminal. And we're talking about an independent accounting firm here - not President Bush or his wife, or even any Enron officials. Imagine the media hysteria if Laura Bush been forced to make a Hillary-like confession of evidence shredding. Keep Mrs. Clinton's Whitewater shredding party, and the media's lethargic reaction to it, in mind tomorrow when the Sunday TV news shows treat the Andersen document disposal as if it's the Enron scandal's smoking gun. newsmax.com tom watson tosiwmee

To: Dr. Doktor who wrote (217697)	1/13/2002 10:30:40 AM
From: rich4eagle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Enron, crimes were very Partisan and very Republican It is typical of you to use the numbers that suit your purpose when saying that Enron contributed 61 percent to Republicans and 39 per cent to Democrats, that was probably a figure for incumbents. The actual contributions by Enron were 73 per cent to Republicans and 27 per cent to Democrats, probably not a cent to Democrats who were considered the underdog in an election. Additionally, Enron contributed 623,000 directly to Bush and 300,000 to his inaugural ball. BiPartisan like the KKK is bipartisan to blacks