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• The return on investment in politics, (CI) Online Journal, 08/28/01 - A steady stream of senior and junior executives have moved from the offices of Enron into the administration of George W. Bush following a mountain of Enron cash into the fall campaigns.



• GAO Starts the Clock Ticking on Richard B. Cheney , (CI) Truthout, 08/20/01 - Lengthy correspondence containing background on the GAO's request for information on the the Energy Task Force. Read Cheney's Counsel's illogical, weak defense of Cheney's clandestine operations: that the phrase "existing law" doesn't include the Constitution! ROFL!
  
  
• Campaign Calls on President and His Party to Turn Down Tobacco Contributions During Settlement Talks, Tobacco Free Kids, 06/21/01 - Dictator Bush and the Republican Party are continuing to solicit campaign contributions from the tobacco industry at the same time that the Bush regime prepares to enter settlement negotiations with several tobacco companies over the federal tobacco lawsuit.
  
  
• GAO Starts the Clock Ticking on Richard B. Cheney, CI, 08/20/01 - Lengthy correspondence containing background on the GAO's request for information on the the Energy Task Force. Read Cheney's Counsel's illogical, weak defense of Cheney's clandestine operations: that the phrase "existing law" doesn't include the Constitution! ROFL!
  
  
• Cheney Refuses to Release Energy Task Force Records Claiming that an arm of Congress was seeking to "unconstitutionally interfere" with the workings of the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney formally refused to turn over documents demanded as part of a Congressional investigation of the administration's energy plan, according to a letter released today. 08/04/01 read more
  
  
• GAO pursues Cheney's energy task force records For only the 4th time in 21 years, the GAO is forcing a showdown to obtain the energy task force records. Bush now has 20 days to either turn over the information, do nothing or declare that taking such action would impair governmental operations. 08/17/01 read more
  
  
• Top Bush Adviser Moves to Sell Stocks Top Bush Adviser Moves to Sell Stocks Summary: Karl Rove, President Bush's senior adviser, acted yesterday to sell his stocks in energy, defense and pharmaceutical companies with stakes in administration policies. Date: 06/06/01 read more
  
  
• Bush Aide Who Held Intel Stock Met Executives Seeking Merger Karl Rove, President Bush's top White House political adviser, met with senior executives of a high-tech firm who were seeking his help in obtaining government approval of a merger at a time when he owned stock in the company worth more than $100,000. Date: 06/14/01 read more
  
  
• White House Rejects Request for Rove Review The White House yesterday rejected a Democratic House member's request for a full accounting of the discussions White House senior adviser Karl Rove had with representatives of companies in which he held stock. Date: 08/11/01 read more
  
  
• Bush Aide Hid Business Link Top White House adviser Karl Rove has failed to disclose his ties to a political consulting firm in his financial disclosure form, which ethics experts said was a serious omission. The White House disclosure form was supposed to list assets, positions held and other aspects of Rove's personal finances dating through at least last year. Failure to list all assets is illegal under the federal disclosure law, but disclosure forms often are amended to correct omissions. Date: 08/09/01 read more
  
  
• Hoodlums of Hypocrisy Listing of conflicts of interest by Bush, Cheney, Rove, and O'Neill, along with the stunning conclusion to the keyboard caper.
  
  
• Bush Advocates Expanded Eminent Domain The Bush administration wants to give the federal government the power to seize private property in order to accelerate the construction of new electrical power lines. 05/09/01
  
  
• White House on Rove Conflicts Date: 06/19/01
  
  
• Waxman Demands Rove Investigation Rep. Waxman is unimpressed by White House Counsel's prior feeble response to information requests, so now he's seeking a Department of Justice investigation on multiple possible conflicts of interest. Date: 07/17/01
  
  
• Rove Heard Charity Plea On Gay Bias Rove Heard Charity Plea On Gay Bias --An internal Salvation Army document obtained by The Washington Post said the White House had made a "firm commitment" to issue a regulation protecting religious charities from state and city efforts to prevent discrimination against gays in hiring and providing benefits. To secure this commitment, the charity proposed spending nearly $1 million on lobbyists and strategists, and those it retained included a key player in the Bush presidential campaign and one of the campaign's top fundraisers. Date: 07/12/01
  
  
• Rove Involved in Meetings While Holding Stock Rove Involved in Meetings While Holding Stock The White House acknowledged Friday that top Bush strategist Karl Rove participated in meetings on the administration's energy policy while he owned stock in energy companies such as Texas- based Enron Corp.
  
  
• Rove Holds Intel Stock While Discussing Merger "...the Associated Press reports that the President's political adviser still owned between $100,000 and $250,000 worth of the high-tech firm's stock at the time he met with its executives to discuss the merger. Questions are raised as to whether the adviser, one of the most powerful officials in the administration, has blatantly violated the Ethics in Government Act. 06/26/01
  
  
• Rove-Intel: Conflict of Interest? -- When Intel executives wanted federal approval of a merger in the high-tech industry, they made their way to the White House and Karl Rove, one of their stockholders.
  
  
• Rove and Other White House Staff Hold Enron Stock At least three top White House advisers involved in drafting President Bush's energy strategy held stock in the Enron Corporation or earned fees from the large Texas-based energy trading company, which lobbied aggressively to shape the administration's approach to energy issues.
  
  Related Facts: Enron Stadium in Houston was built by a subsidiary of Cheney's Haliburton, Brown & Root. Funding for Houston's Enron Stadium came from 3 sources.
  
  Ken Lay, the chairman of Enron, organized the limited partnership The Sports Facility, which pledged approximately $35 million "on a favorable basis" to the Sports Authority.
  
  The Astros' total annual payments amount to $7.1 million annually.The Sports Authority, which has pledged $180 million in bond proceeds toward construction, will utilize approximately $9.5 million annually of its $24 million in annual revenues from the hotel occupancy tax and the short term motor vehicle rental tax to pay debt service related to the construction of the stadium.
  
  The Sports Authority was not required to build the new stadium using the competitive bidding process. However, the Sports Authority in conjunction with the architects and the contractors manager broke out fourteen (14) major packages and many minor packages that were competitively bid. Source
  Question Since ~78% of the $200 million stadium cost is paid by taxpayers, how did they circumvent competitive bidding for Brown & Root, the subsidiary of Cheney's Halliburton?
  
  
• Enron Attempts Influence on FERC Chair Curtis Hébert Jr., Washington's top electricity regulator, said he had barely settled into his new job this year when he had an unsettling telephone conversation with Kenneth L. Lay, the head of the nation's largest electricity trader, the Enron Corporation. 05/24/01
  
  
• Cheney is still refusing to name participants in secret energy task force Congressional investigators are intensifying pressure on the White House to identify who met privately with Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force. 06/26/01
  
  
• Judicial Watch Goes After Cheney & RNC Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government and public corruption, announced today that it would institute legal action concerning a RNC fundraising event for hundreds of Republican donors last night at the government residence of Vice President Dick Cheney. Among other laws, the event was a prima facie violation of the prohibition of the use of federal property for political fundraising purposes. 05/23/01
  
  
• ONeill $62M Richer for Stalling Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who promised in March to sell all of his stock in Alcoa, the aluminum company he used to head, still has not sold all of his stock, renewing the conflict of interest charges that led him to make the pledge in the first place, according to Salon.com today. 06/08/01
  
  
• Waxman Seeks Justice Inquiry of Rove Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) called yesterday for a Justice Department review of White House senior advisor Karl Rove's repeated discussions with executives and representatives of companies in which he held stock. Gonzales has said he was satisfied that Rove "took care to avoid" any impropriety in meeting in March with Intel Corp. executives, and in participating in broad discussions about administration energy policy while owning more than $100,000 worth of Intel Corp. stock and more than $200,000 worth of stock in Enron Corp., General Electric Co. and other energy companies. On June 7, Rove sold more than $1 million in stock in companies doing business with the government. 07/13/01
  
  
• Judicial Watch Sues Cheney Over Energy Task Force ``Judicial Watch is concerned that energy policy is being made in secret by individuals and interests with a financial and political stake in particular policies,'' said Larry Klayman, Judicial Watch chairman and general counsel. The White House task force headed by Cheney met with officials from the oil, natural gas, electric, and nuclear industries, among others, in developing the Bush administration's new national energy plan unveiled in May. 07/17/01
  
  
• Cheney Records Demanded; Energy Task Force Papers Eyed by GAO The investigative arm of Congress yesterday demanded that Vice President Cheney release information on the development of the administration's energy policy, an action that could lead to a rare court showdown between the executive and legislative branches.
  
  
• Navy Begins Operation to Raise Ehime Maru The $40 million Ehime Maru recovery and relocation effort, expected to begin late this month, will cost almost as much as the fixing of the destroyer USS Cole, damaged by a terrorist bomb in Aden, Yemen, last October. The Navy will spend $44 million to restore the Cole, on which seven sailors were killed and twice as many wounded. The Ehime Maru operation will include recovery of the bodies of the nine Japanese men and boys killed when the USS Greeneville nuclear sub collided with a Japanese fishing vessel on Feb. 9. The Navy's environmental assessment projects the salvage vessel Rock Water 2, owned by the Texas-based Haliburton engineering and construction company, to anchor above the Ehime Maru in early August. 07/01/01