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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (11116)	1/6/2003 4:32:25 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

<<...pardons are inked...>> Tim: I didn't like Clinton's last minute pardons and I wouldn't be surprised if Bush made a few on his way out in Jan. '04...Yet, if he actually pardoned Ken Lay he would NOT be viewed positively at all -- remember Ken Lay was the captain of a ship that defrauded tons of investors and employees of billions of dollars (thousands of employees lost jobs and retirements because of Ken Lay's greed & reckless management)...I sure wouldn't want to be responsible for letting Lay, Skilling or Fastow off the hook -- would you sleep well at night..??

To: T L Comiskey who wrote (11116)	1/6/2003 4:55:51 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

A radical idea from John le Carre... << ... what are the proper targets of the CIA? That's a policy problem. For me, they are much more widespread than you would suppose. I think they should be extended to the ecology, to the pollution of rivers and those things. There is, for example, one plant in northern Russia that disseminates more pollution than the whole of Scandinavia. One plant alone. I think things of that sort are so life-threatening that they should be included in the CIA's brief ... >> parisreview.com

To: T L Comiskey who wrote (11116)	1/6/2003 6:17:15 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Bush and Ken Lay have interesting connections...fyi... consortiumnews.com <<...The truth is that the Bush-Lay relationship is as close a public-private relationship as there has been in modern American history. It conjures images from the Frank Capra classic describing another political era, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, in which the strings are pulled by a political machine run by party boss Jim Taylor. The political plot of the Bush-Lay connection is unique in its own time, but critical to both men. It could even be said that Enron wouldn't have become the seventh-largest U.S. company – in a position for its executives to make off with hundreds of millions of dollars while leaving small investors and low-level employees to take the fall – without years of assistance from George W. Bush. And Bush might not have succeeded in taking the White House without the help of Enron and Ken Lay...>>