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___DEMOCRATS.COM____The Aggressive Progressives__________________ Democrats.com is the largest independent community of Democrats. We publish the only Democratic daily news service - and it's free! Our members make it possible through generous contributions. Please help by clicking below! http://democrats.com/donate ___.COMPOSITION______In This Issue_______________________________ Bob Fertik Debates Enrongate on BBC Newsnight We Demand a Special Prosecutor for Enrongate! Only Hours After His Campaign Contributions Were Exposed, Ashcroft Recuses Himself from the Enron Investigation Democrats.com Exclusive: Deputy AG Larry Thompson Had Financial Ties to Enron As a Special Prosecutor, Larry Thompson Let James Watt Off With Barely a Slap on the Wrist Surprise! Larry Thompson is a Right Wing Ideologue and Member of the Treasonous Federalist Society Larry Thompson Invented the 'Nutty & Slutty' Attack on Anita Hill The Coverup Begins: Arthur Andersen Scrubs Enron Files Arthur Andersen Hires Clarence Thomas' Patron In Futile Effort To Protect Its Image Enron Exposes Utter Corruption of Texas Oil 'Bidness' Check Out This List of Bush Appointees Who Owned Enron Stock 'Afghanistan, The Taliban, And The Bush Oil Team' by Wayne Madsen Bush Negotiated with the Taliban: Interview with Guillaume Dasquié Review of the Explosive New Book that Alleges the September 11th Attacks Came After the U.S. Threatened the Taliban with War Letters by Democrats.com Members Appear in the Nation's Newspapers in Support of Daschle's Economic Plan __Bob Fertik Debates Enrongate on BBC Newsnight Democrats.com co-founder Bob Fertik debated Enrongate on the BBC's popular "Newsnight" TV show. Bob debated Christopher Horner, a former lobbyist for Enron, a leading opponent of the Kyoto Treaty on global warming, and a flack at the right-wing Competitive Enterprise Institute. Bob highlighted the intimate connections between Enron and Bush, and called for a Special Prosecutor. Horner blamed - guess who - BILL CLINTON!! Hey Christopher, Enron's collapse happened while BU$H was President, not CLINTON!!! The show will be available until Saturday 5:30 pm EST. Click on the "Latest Programme" button on the right hand side of the page linked below. Real Player is required. To view the Enron report and debate, move the slider about a quarter of the way, or 15 minutes in. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsnight __We Demand a Special Prosecutor for Enrongate! "The collapse of Enron was the largest bankruptcy in American history. Thousands of Americans - including many Enron employees - were financially devastated. But Enron's executives got rich. A shareholder lawsuit alleges that the 29 executives and directors dumped $1.1 billion worth of stock while knowing the company was in danger of collapse. Enron's collapse is the subject of a criminal investigation by the Justice Department of the Bush Administration. However, the Bush administration and Enron are so closely connected as to be virtually indistinguishable." We demand a Special Prosecutor for Enrongate - sign the petition! http://207.228.234.134/elandslide/index.cfm?campaign=enron __Only Hours After His Campaign Contributions Were Exposed, Ashcroft Recuses Himself from the Enron Investigation "The U.S. Justice Department, which is investigating Enron Corp., said on Thursday that Attorney General John Ashcroft has removed himself from the case after receiving campaign contributions from the fallen energy giant. Enron and its employees contributed $57,499 to campaign committees for Ashcroft, previously a Republican senator from Missouri, in 1999-2000, according to Holly Bailey, researcher for the Center for Responsive Politics. This included a $25,000 donation from Enron chief Kenneth Lay, she said. Most of the rest of the money came from the corporation, although there were small amounts from other employees. Ashcroft took the action the same day U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman, a Democrat from California, sent him a letter saying Enron had been one of Ashcroft's largest contributors." Sorry Ashcroft, this just isn't good enough - we DEMAND a Special Prosecutor! http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/020110/n10237933_1.html __Democrats.com Exclusive: Deputy AG Larry Thompson Had Financial Ties to Enron One day after John Ashcroft recused himself from the Enrongate criminal investigation and handed it to Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson, Democrats.com has learned that Thompson himself had financial ties to Enron. Thompson was a partner at the law firm of King & Spalding from 1986 until his appointment as Deputy AG in 2001. "King & Spalding has represented numerous subsidiaries of Enron, including Enron Global LNG, Enron Global Markets, and Enron Energy Services," according to Democrats.com co-founder Bob Fertik. "As a former law partner, Larry Thompson profited personally from the firm's work for Enron. Even if Thompson did not work directly on Enron matters - information which is not publicly available - Thompson cannot avoid the 'appearance of impropriety' which is fatal for such an important investigation," Fertik said. Democrats.com is calling upon George W. Bush to go outside his conflict-ridden Administration to appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate Enrongate. http://www.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=5502 __As a Special Prosecutor, Larry Thompson Let James Watt Off With Barely a Slap on the Wrist "From 1995 to 1999, Mr. Thompson was the independent counsel investigating favoritism in contracts awarded by the Reagan administration's Department of Housing and Urban Development. In that role, he negotiated an agreement that allowed former Interior Secretary James G. Watt to plead guilty to a single misdemeanor charge of trying to influence a federal grand jury. Mr. Watt had originally been charged with 25 felonies related to influence- peddling in his role as a private housing consultant." So reports the NY Times. Yet another reason why Thompson should be removed from the investigation and replaced with a Special Prosecutor! http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/15/politics/15THOM.html?pagewanted=2 __Surprise! Larry Thompson is a Right Wing Ideologue and Member of the Treasonous Federalist Society According to People for the American Way, Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson is no truth-seeking prosecutor. Instead, he's one more right-wing ideologue in a right-wing Administration. "Larry Thompson, also a member of the Federalist Society, served as an adviser and witness for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas during his Senate confirmation hearings. For nine years, Thompson was on the board of the Southeastern Legal Foundation, one of a network of legal organizations pushing a far-right agenda in the courts." Thompson must be removed from the Enron investigation! http://www.pfaw.org/issues/democracy/ash_update_2.shtml __Larry Thompson Invented the 'Nutty & Slutty' Attack on Anita Hill "According to 'Strange Justice,' an account of the nomination battle written by Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson, Mr. Thompson was among those who devised a strategy to portray Judge Thomas's accuser, Anita F. Hill, as suffering from erotomania, an abnormality related to sexual delusion. To counter Ms. Hill's passing a polygraph test on her claims of sexual harassment, Mr. Thompson issued a statement saying it was possible both to lie and to pass such a test 'if a person suffers from a delusional disorder.' When the statement was read into the Senate record, Mr. Thompson was identified only as a former United States attorney, not as a member of Judge Thomas's legal team." So reports the NY Times. Thompson must be replaced with a Special Prosecutor for Enrongate! http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/15/politics/15THOM.html __The Coverup Begins: Arthur Andersen Scrubs Enron Files "The firm that audited the books of collapsed Enron Corp., Arthur Andersen LLP, disclosed Thursday that a 'significant but undetermined' number of documents related to the company had been destroyed. Federal law enforcement agencies and congressional investigators are seeking the documents as part of their inquiries into the failure of the giant energy-trading company, which left countless investors burned and employees out of work with billions of dollars of losses in their Enron-heavy retirement accounts.. The Big Five accounting firm said in a statement that in recent months, electronic files and other documents related to its auditing of Enron had been destroyed or deleted." This is EXACTLY how the Bush organized crime family and its corrupt cronies operate - by scrubbing the evidence. We demand an investigation! http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020110/ts/enron_documents_3.html __Arthur Andersen Hires Clarence Thomas' Patron In Futile Effort To Protect Its Image Big 5 accounting firm Arthur Andersen is in "deep doo-doo", as Bush the Smarter would say, because of its role in aiding and abetting Enron's massive financial reporting fraud. To make matters worse, AA has now been caught scrubbing its Enron files, no doubt to protect top officials of the Bush administration. Given this situation, every client of AA should immediately find a new auditor, and put AA out of business. In a vain attempt to preserve its completely destroyed credibility, AA has turned to yet another right-wing Republican - former Senator John Danforth. Danforth, whom the media likes to portray as a paragon of virtue - just like those two sultans of sleaze, Ken Starr and William Bennett - was the evangelical hardball player who pushed Clarence Thomas through the Senate, despite Thomas's vicious lies about Anita Hill. Sorry, John, your pathetic reputation can't save AA - and you'll be going down with the ship. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020110/ts/enron_documents_3.html __Enron Exposes Utter Corruption of Texas Oil 'Bidness' "What it is about... is how business gets done down in Texas. How a small group of business leaders exert enormous clout over Bush and his team in getting the rules changed to their benefit. It will explain why Bush has locked up presidential records, locked out any voices opposed to his pro-business agenda and rammed through an expensive economic plan that wiped out the budget surplus but to date hasn't had any positive effect on the economy. It will explain what influence Enron Chief Executive Ken Lay and his advisers had with Cheney and his energy task force when they met six times last year while the vice president was putting together the administration's energy policy. And it will explain why Bush is now thinking about acting on a proposal from that very task force that seeks to roll back a key provision of the Clean Air Act that helps keep factory pollution down by requiring new controls when old plants are upgraded." So writes CBS.MarketWatch.com Editor David Callaway. http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid={903B88E7-7C09-4FC6-B706-49697A 5B66F1}& __Check Out This List of Bush Appointees Who Owned Enron Stock Writes Joshua Michah Marshall: "Wondering how many Bush administration (Senate-confirmed) appointees owned stock in Enron? Or how much they owned? Or what business relationships they had with the company? Well, hey, you came to the right place! Now it's important to keep in mind that most of these folks listed below just owned stock in the company, which probably only means they got suckered and cleaned out by the company brass like a lot of other people. But then if some of them cashed in their stock a few months ago (which next year's disclosures will tell us) based on inside information ... well, that would be another matter entirely." Those listed include Donald Rumsfeld, Robert Zoellick, Charlotte Beers, and, of course, Secretary of the Army Thomas White. White was the Vice Chairman of Enron Energy Service, who held in the neighborhood of $100 million Enron stocks and stock options. White was also appointed as the Defense Department's top official on Homeland Security, to work with Tom Ridge. http://j-marshall.com/talk/jan0201.html#0102021142am __'Afghanistan, The Taliban, And The Bush Oil Team' by Wayne Madsen The Bush Oil Team, which can now rely on the support of the interim Prime Minister of Afghanistan, may think that war and oil profits mix. But there is simply too much evidence that the War in Afghanistan was primarily about building UNOCAL's pipeline, not about fighting terrorism. The Democrats, who control the Senate and its investigation agenda, should investigate the secretive deals between Big Oil, Bush, and the Taliban. http://www.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=5496 __Bush Negotiated with the Taliban: Interview with Guillaume Dasquié One month before the New York terrorist attacks, the White House was on speaking terms with Kabul. In this interview, Guillaume Dasquie, co-author, with Jean-Charles Brisard, of "Bin Laden, the Forbidden Truth", reveals how the billionaire terrorist is nothing but a product of the dangerous liaisons maintained by Saudi Arabia, the United States and the UN with extremist movements, which led to the 9-11 terrorist attacks. These affirmations are based on several years of investigation. Dasquie decodes here the political and financial networks where bankers, oil companies, diplomats and terrorists cross each others' paths. http://www.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=5504 __Review of the Explosive New Book that Alleges the September 11th Attacks Came After the U.S. Threatened the Taliban with War Since an American translation and publication of Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth by Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dosquie is still weeks away, here is an outstanding review of their explosive new book. Both authors are intelligence analysts with long experience. Dosquie is editor-in-chief of IntelligenceOnline.com and Brisard formerly headed up the economic analysis and strategy division of the French conglomerate Vivendi. He has also written about Al-Qaeda for the French intelligence agencies. In their book, they allege that the attacks of September 11th were provoked by specific threats by representatives of the U.S. government against the Taliban in a series of secret meetings to achieve the Taliban's approval for an oil pipeline, to be built by a consortium of American oil companies. The reviewer is Lara Marlowe, formerly of Time Magazine, now covering Afganistan for the Irish Times. http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/MAR111A.html __Letters by Democrats.com Members Appear in the Nation's Newspapers in Support of Daschle's Economic Plan Thanks for all of your letters supporting Tom Daschle! Here is one by Lucille Arneson in SF Chronicle. "Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., has a sensible approach to getting the nation's economy moving again. He's learned that the Republican method - irresponsible tax cuts for the wealthiest of corporations and individuals - is no solution. The last time Republicans tried that in the '80s, we wound up with huge budget deficits, which we are building up again. The Democrats' plan of the '90s - investments in job training and education - helped create prosperity in a time of peace, as well as budget surpluses. We need to address health care for all, including those who have recently lost their jobs. It's obscene the way that Republicans don't care about the average person's health concerns. Also obscene is the way they are trying to scrub Social Security and replace it with individual private investments. Think how lucky Enron's employees were with their stock holdings." http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/01/09/E D180082.DTL Copyright (c) 2001 Democrats.com and/or its suppliers. All rights reserved. Democrats.com is a member-supported online community. If you appreciate the news, commentary, activist alerts, cartoons, discussions and other features we offer, please show your support by making contribution at http://democrats.com/donate. Help keep our community growing, expanding and fighting back at every opportunity! To subscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To switch to the weekly edition, unsubscribe from this list and send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To switch to the occasional activist alerts, unsubscribe from this list and send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! 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