Wow! What terrific digging all you dataminers did in the Enron database!
Hat tips to the many Moon of Alabama people who sent us the lead and asked for our help. Below is a very quick summary of some of the key points you all have found:
- Important debunking of our earlier thoughts: As Kossak Jotter pointed out, the GOPUSAers having email addies @ Enron.com is a red herring. It’s an artifact of cleaning up the data on unknown emails and such. The content, however, still is pertinent. Jotter’s wisdom
- The Bush Administration was ready to begin work on the energy policy (with Enron emails clearly identifying Cheney as the power behind the throne three days after the 2000 Supreme Court decision…and Enron looked all prepared. Luaptifer has compiled all the great information from the previous diary and the ePMedia researchers into a commentary that will be coming soon.
- Definite evidence of cronyism between Enron folks and administration as seen in this email that waitingtoderail discovered from Enron’s Robertson to Shapiro:
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Ken did take an opportunity to speak with Bob Zoellick directly and at length about steel. We ran into Zoellick in the West Wing as we were departing. Zoellick told Ken that he understood our position. He indicated general agreement with us, but did say that if he is able to “trade” steel for a larger political deal on fast track or something of that level, he would entertain putting steel into play. - Delay wanted to influence Enron’s VP hiring to “Republican only,” but apparently Enron resisted.
- There are ethical journalists out there. Silence found this remarkable email from Peter Behr then at the Washington Post indicating that he was Doing the right thing.
- Dkos users back2basics and salvador found the emails discussing the Enron donations to Delay’s various initiatives, including the Texas redistricting. Check the original diary at Ready to go data mining?
- KristyZ’s finding that Rove sold his Enron shares before the share prices and enron tanked is intriguing.
There are a gazillion more good finds in that thread, thanks to everyone…
We are narrowing down looking at these connections – FERC, Energy Commissions, Steel Policies, Congressional member influencing – can any of you help? Please post here or over on ePluribus Community so we can try to collate and summarize.
What a treasure trove of stinking cronyism!
Just cuz it’s Friday, here’s the shortcut to the Enron Corpus datebase:
http://orange.sims.berkeley.edu/~atf/enron/enron.cgi
What does that mean? Tanks, guns, ships, bombs, planes?
Steel market, importing/exporting – who can, who can’t, who has tariffs, who doesn’t.
Playing with steel as though it were marbles.
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In pdf file – 250 pages of correspondence, dates, names, addresses links to Cheney’s Energy Task Force …
National Energy Strategy
Background paper – 2001
Natural Gas
Was this document already known?
The Unocal trail leads directly to Enron and then on towards Vice President Dick Cheney. Former federal war crimes prosecutor John Loftus already claims knowledge of paperwork confirming secret dealings between Enron and the Taliban. According to Loftus an al-Qaeda document on this subject was discovered in 1998 by FBI counter-terrorism chief, John O’Neil, following the US embassy bombings in Africa.
The real dynamite, however, is that Loftus also claims that Cheney instructed the FBI in January 2001 to back-off investigations of al-Qaeda in order to protect Enron’s interest in the development of a gas pipeline through Afghanistan. That pipeline was originally due to be built by Unocal, with no less than Henry Kissinger himself hired by them to advise on the project.
Federal Bureau of Investigation’s deputy director John O’Neill resigned in July 2001, in protest at the attempts by the Bush administration to obstruct him in his pursuit of al-Qaeda – and the rest, as they say, is history. Or not quite.
O’Neil took a job at the World Trade Centre following his resignation and was killed in the attacks on 911,
FBI obstructs the release of former FBI agent Robert Wright’s 500 page manuscript called: ‘Fatal Betrayals of the Intelligence Mission‘.
“But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.”
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Yes, I think it was. It lines up with several references from August 2001.
More than anything, this all shows the need to share the services of Ken Lay’s lawyer that GWB realized. Too much evidence indicates that besides the political connections, there was a deliberate effort to manipulate economic/political events, including defrauding the public and investors, in favor of top Enron investors and/or launching the wars.
Excellent summary on threads to Cheney’s so called energy plan. Great links also, so I’ll save this diary.
Speaking of “data mining”, I learned from a friend, who still works for Nielsen TV Ratings, that their parent company VNU is affiliating with a data mining company and will be active in a month or so.
My friend was not aware of what contracts Nielsen TV Ratings, and the parent company had for their “new” data mining affiliation.
This administration corrupts EVERYTHING!
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Someone pinch me, tell me it’s not true ::
VNU will become a private owned company like SAIC
Carlyle Group in bid for VNU Publication Group with
ownership of DataMining companies LexisNexis – Seisint Inc.
ChoicePoint – DBT Online – Voter Purge Florida ’00-’04
Read on …
Diary by creve coeur @dKos ::
● Accenture | Cheney | Halliburton | Ghost of Enron | SAIC & US Elections
Sat Jan 29, 2005 at 06:54:14 AM PDT
“But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.”
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Ok, I’m not above being willing to negotiate the terms of my freedom. I can forget stuff I know and stop researching.