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Pastimes : MANIPULATION IS RAMPANT --- Can We Stop It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dave Gore who wrote (527)	7/14/2002 12:53:29 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 589

HARKEN SCHEMES EXPOSED: MORE BUSH CHICANERY Dave, Re: Scathing Article on Bush and the Insider Game on Wall Street. Is there truth in it? It all true, and Krugman is pulling his punches. The truth is much uglier. Bush is indictable. """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" public-i.org A "rap sheet" a mile long.... """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""' mediawhoresonline.com The Lawbreaker in Chief: mediawhoresonline.net The Thief-In-Chief Exposed: THE HARKEN HERALD MEET JAMES DOTY Listen to James Doty Dissemble, Squirm "Er, Um, The Facts Of the Matter Are..." James Doty: Bush Mouthpiece, SEC General Counsel James Doty is a senior partner at Baker Boggs. In the late 1980s, he was George W. Bush's personal lawyer, who helped arrange Bush's purchase of part-ownership of the Texas Rangers. Doty was then named Securities and Exchange Commission General Counsel. Although he recused himself -- something that's become more and more common in the Dubya era, with conflict of interest running rampant -- Doty was at the SEC when it investigated the Harken Energy deal and decided to drop its probe. And now, Doty has joined the White House defense squad, out there trying to claim that the SEC actually exonerated Bush, an outright lie. Happily, NPR's Bob Edwards has questioned Doty about all of this -- and Doty has stayed true to White House form, squirming and dissembling about Bush, especially when confronted with hard facts. Doty told Edwards that, in the Harken deal, Bush "met not only the letter but the spirit of the law," and that he was and is "a compliant person." Really, Mr. Doty? Then why, in a memo dated July 17, 1991, did SEC investigators complain that Bush and his lawyers were being evasive, hiding behind attorney-client privilege, and withholding crucial information? July 17, 1991 SEC Memo When Doty tried to say that the SEC had, in fact, exonerated Bush, Edwards pressed him, asking if the letter has not in fact explicitly stated that Bush had not been exonerated -- and Doty collapsed into gibberish. Doty: "No, it [the SEC letter] simply says the agency reserved the right to reopen the file..." Edwards: "Let me find it. Let me find it." Then he quoted directly from the SEC letter, about how Bush had not been exonerated. Doty: "I think the release of the document, er, um, the letter..." Then Doty tells Edwards that the SEC has kept the case closed for ten years, which, he would have us believe, means Bush is exonerated and no reopening of the file or the case is necessary. Does James Doty really think we are morons? Or is he just panicking there at the end of the interview, stunned that an interviewer would actually cite the facts that explode his falsehoods, coming up with any fake straw in the wind he can? You decide. See: NPR.org for audio of Bob Edward Interview With James Doty, July 12, 2002 search.npr.org Hear the Lies on the Net: npr.org