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

To: SeachRE who wrote (277595)	7/18/2002 6:07:11 PM
From: calgal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Bush: SEC Probe Will Clear Cheney Halliburton Changed Accounting Practices By Mike Allen Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 18, 2002; Page A18 President Bush predicted yesterday that the Securities and Exchange Commission will find that Vice President Cheney did nothing wrong when he was chairman of Halliburton Co., which is being investigated for its accounting practices. Bush was asked twice about Halliburton during a news conference with Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, at a time when the White House is trying to convince investors and traders that it will aggressively prosecute accounting fraud. The SEC is looking into a change that Halliburton, a Dallas-based oil services firm, made in its accounting practices when Cheney was in charge. "I've got great confidence in the vice president -- doing a heck of a good job," Bush said. "When I picked him, I knew he was a fine business leader and a fine experienced man. And he's doing a great job." Asked if he is confident the SEC will find Cheney did nothing wrong while at Halliburton, Bush said, "Yes, I am." Bush said the investigation will run its course "and the facts will come out at some point in time." The first question Bush was asked at the East Room news conference was about a closed SEC investigation into a large sale he made of stock in Texas-based Harken Energy Corp. in 1990, when he was on the board and had access to some financial data not available to other investors. Investigators decided not to pursue an insider trading case against Bush. A growing chorus of Democrats has said Bush should call on the SEC to release the file on the investigation, and SEC Chairman Harvey L. Pitt said Sunday that he would do so if the president asked him. Bush indicated yesterday that he has no intention of doing so. "The SEC, as a result of Freedom of Information [Act] requests, has released documents, and the key document said there is no case," he said. "It was fully investigated by career investigators." Bush then pivoted to the economy. "The key thing for the American people is to realize that the fundamentals for economic vitality and growth are there: low interest rates, good monetary policy, productivity increases, economic vitality and growth in the first quarter," he said. Later, while declaiming on NATO expansion, Bush made sport of critics who suggest he may not fully grasp the fine points of international affairs. "I think that's an important nuance, as we say in foreign policy," he said with a smile. "I think that's the word, isn't it? 'Nuance'?" © 2002 The Washington Post Company washingtonpost.com

To: SeachRE who wrote (277595)	7/18/2002 6:19:24 PM
From: Srexley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

"I believe nobody will conclusively know WHO stole the presidency" I'll give you a hint. The official results showed Bush was the winner. The mandatory machine recount showed Bush was the winner. Then Al Gore got his 75 lawyers ("malignant liars" in your words) involved. How could Bush have stole something he already won? Seems impossible to me, but I am restricted by using truth and logic to form my opinions. Most liberals are not restricted by such technicalities.

To: SeachRE who wrote (277595)	7/18/2002 6:22:21 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Nope. Gore lost after the greatest attempted vote fraud in history. He failed to create a few hundred extra in Florida, after 1 to 2 MILLION nationwide, and the people beat him. The tide has turned on the American left as a result, as you'll see in 2002 and 2004. I doubt Gore could have handled the job. Despite media propaganda, pounded home over and over, he has ALWAYS been an incredibly stupid man, with no foundation in national loyalty or honest principle whatsoever...