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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (272119)	7/9/2002 5:47:13 PM
From: Arthur Radley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Come on Bill! On two lies in one post...can't you do better than that. 1)Harken was trying to salvage the company with an outside brokerage house and Shrub was on the audit company...so please don't say that they didn't know what was going on before the end of the quarter....how lame! 2)Bill, you really don't know much about history, do you? Reading a problem for you? IN 1990 when this happened one George Bush was president so please tell me what an Arkansas governor had to do with the SEC and who they charge with lying and stealing. Come on Bill! Lie but don't you think you could at least be a little more creative in your lies. Now repeat after me..in 1990 George Hebert Bush was president and his son was doing crooked deals and Poppy got him off...because what else could a father do for a coke snorting and boozing son. "Harken's Audit Committee findings were not issued until after his Harken stock sale: Well, of course. That's the very point. An insider, acting on non-public information, is what insider trading is all about. There may be a germ of truth to this explanation. At the time Bush sold his Harken stock, the audit committee on which he sat had been working for weeks with outside consultants from Smith Barney on a restructuring plan for the troubled company. The committee's report may indeed not have been completed by June 22, 1990, when Bush sold out. But the only way Bush could not have known the committee's preliminary findings is through a failure to attend audit committee meetings. If that's the case, Bush should say so. Of course such an admission would raise new troublesome issues involving director Bush shirking his fiduciary duty to Harken and its shareholders. Which is it President Bush? Either you attended the meetings and knew Harken was in trouble before you sold, or you were AWOL from those audit committee meetings.