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To: E. T. who wrote (220270)	1/20/2002 6:55:10 AM
From: E. T.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Hey, I thought everything Clinton did was bad, so why....guess not. US Defends Handling of Enron Project By Sandra Sobieraj Associated Press Writer Saturday, January 19, 2002; 10:13 AM washingtonpost.com WASHINGTON –– The White House did some digging into old Clinton administration files on Friday to make the case that it was appropriate for Vice President Dick Cheney to help campaign supporters at Enron collect a $64 million debt from India. Three of President Clinton's commerce secretaries – Ron Brown, Mickey Kantor and William Daley – also advocated for the Dabhol energy project that Enron, General Electric and Bechtel Corp. undertook in India, White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said. President Bush himself would have been within bounds to raise the issue during his Nov. 9 meeting with Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, had advisers not scrapped the agenda item because it "did not rise to the president's level," Fleischer said. The spokesman said Bush is always "looking out to protect America's jobs and taxpayers' money." He noted, for example, that Bush has talked to China about purchasing a Boeing aircraft. "I don't see any problem with that," Fleischer said. But ethics watchdogs in the White House counsel's office did see a problem if economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey should advocate for the project. Enron was looking for help in pushing the Maharashtra State Electricity Board to settle the $64 million debt Enron claimed for building a giant power plant in Dabhol, India, a project dating to 1992 and insured by the taxpayer-funded Overseas Private Investment Corp. Lindsey, who previously earned $50,000 as an Enron consultant, received an ethics ruling from White House lawyers last year advising him to have "no direct involvement in the Dabhol plant as a result of his previous holdings with Enron," Fleischer said. The White House defended its handling of the long-running Dobhal case after The New York Daily News reported on government e-mails it obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Those e-mails revealed publicly for the first time that Cheney "mentioned Enron" in his June 27 meeting with Sonia Gandhi, president of India's opposition Congress Party. Fleischer confirmed on Friday that Cheney asked Gandhi "about the status of the project." The Cheney-Gandhi meeting took place three days after Cheney and now-embattled Enron chairman Kenneth L. Lay saw each other at the American Enterprise Institute World Forum in Beaver Creek, Colo., where the topic was energy. Commerce Secretary Don Evans has said that he and Lay spoke about recovering Enron's losses in Dabhol. Lay and Enron gave Bush nearly $114,000 for his presidential campaign. Defending the actions by Evans and Cheney, Fleischer said, "I don't think you could say that they were influenced by the contributions that were given to the Bush campaign. It was done because they thought it was in America's national interest to do it." He pointed to evidence that Clinton administration officials did the same thing. Among the documents that Bush officials retrieved was a Jan. 5, 1995, letter that then-Commerce Secretary Brown wrote to India's minister of Commerce before traveling to India. Brown asked his Indian counterpart to facilitate "financial closing" of the Dabhol power project "in time to be celebrated during my visit." Brown wrote that resolving the Dobhal matter was in the interests of India and U.S. investors.

To: E. T. who wrote (220270)	1/20/2002 10:26:46 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

Well HONOR MEANS DICK E.T. stupid as usual spread the lie that Ken Lay was secretly selling stock. I don't know how you can expect anyone to believe you are so stupid about stock transactions of the CEO of a company. First all stock transactions for Mr. Lay must be reported to the SEC and they are all public information. Thus "HONOR MEANS DICK E.T" is lying when "HONOR MEANS DICK E.T" uses secretly. But if one looks at the details of Mr. Lays transaction and the timing "HONOR MEANS DICK E.T" is exposed even more the stupid lying fool. In 2001 Mr. Lay stock ownership of ENE changed by 3%. Mr Lay currently holds 2.85 million shares of ENE. Also Mr. Lays last reported transactions were the purchase of 93,620 share and he paid 1,998,947 bucks This was in August at the same time Mr. Lay was saying he believed in the future of ENE. By the way 93,620 is about 3% of 2.85 million shares. So are you just lying or repeating an unverified lie from your mr. bill worship support group. Now it does appear the Mr. Lay and mr. bill have stupidity lies, cheating and betraying trust in common. Mr. lay thought he could play games, risky games with other peoples money. He thought could hide the risk and he never ever thought ENE was going bankrupt. Do you think Mr. Lay purposely destroyed ENE??? Now consider mr. bill and his abuse of an intern. He did not consider the fact that DNA made denying it impossible. He did not get at all that he was dealing with a childish little girl who did not have a clue as to what she was doing. mr. bill and mr lay played the risk game believing there was no harm and no foul as they would not be caught. The best laid plans of the stupidest turn out to be a roll of the dice and they got snake eyes. you all have a nice day now hear. tom watson tosiwmee