Cheney ran Halliburton oil company for five years

Wednesday, 10 July, 2002, 22:22 GMT 23:22 UK

A US pressure group has filed a lawsuit against Vice-President Dick Cheney, accusing him of defrauding shareholders in a company he used to run.

Judicial Watch, based in Washington DC, says Mr Cheney artificially boosted the share price of the Halliburton energy company during the time he was chief executive in the 1990s.
The White House has dismissed the lawsuit as "without merit".

In another development, it has emerged that Mr Cheney took part in a promotional video for the disgraced accounting firm Andersen.
The lawsuit was filed at a court in Dallas, Texas, where Halliburton is based. [...] Read the rest at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2119981.stm


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The interesting things one learns when the going gets tough ...

Posted by Tim Tagaris on January 13, 2006 at 09:31 AM
Democratic Party Web Site

This has always been one of my favorite stories about Senator Harry Reid and I never miss a chance to read more when it becomes available. So this morning, I was quite pleased to see he had an op-ed in the Houston Chronicle:

In 1977, I was appointed chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission. It was a difficult time for the gaming industry and Las Vegas, which were being overrun by organized crime. To that point in my life, I had served in the Nevada Assembly and even as lieutenant governor, but nothing prepared me for my fight with the mob.

Over the next few years, there would be threats on my life, bribes, FBI stings and even a car bomb placed in my family's station wagon. It was a terrifying experience, but at the end of the day, we cleaned up Las Vegas and ushered in a new era of responsibility.

My term on the gaming commission came to an end in 1981, and when it did, I thought I had seen such corruption for the last time. Unfortunately, that has not been the case. It is not quite the mafia of Las Vegas in the 1970s, but what is happening today in Washington is every bit as corrupt and the consequences for our country have been severe. [...]

If we could kick the mob out of Las Vegas in the 1970s, we can change the culture of Washington and give America a government as good and honest as the people it serves. Read the rest at
http://www.democrats.org/a/2006/01/senator_reids_n.php


© Virginia Metze

Biggest news on Martin Luther King day was Al Gore's brave, patriotic and impassioned speech about the dangerous situation in the country.

AL GORE FINDS THE FIRE IN HIS BELLY

Gore accuses Bush of breaking the law Repeatedly and Persistently

by Allen L Roland, Ph.D
http://www.opednews.com
January 16, 2006

" Bush Broke Law Repeatedly and Persistently ~ This shameful exercise of power overturns a set of principles that our nation has observed since General Washington first enunciated them during our Revolutionary War and has been observed by every president since then - until now . I call upon Democratic and Republican members of Congress today to uphold your oath of office and defend the Constitution. Stop going along to get along. Start acting like the independent and co-equal branch of government you're supposed to be": Al Gore 1/15/06

Al Gore spoke today, on Martin Luther King's birthday, with fire in his belly to a Bi-partisan audience and not only accused Bush of breaking the law repeatedly and persistently ~ but called for a special counsel, Executive Branch whistleblower protection and comprehensive Congressional hearings to immediately investigate Constitutional crimes by the Executive Branch.

Here are excerpts from his speech ~ a speech that was virtually ignored by the major media but instantly picked up by the blogosphere ( courtesy of fellow blogger Brad Friedman http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002288.htm ) [...] See the excerpts here: http://tinyurl.com/ad5xf


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Abramoff scandal grows and grows and grows ... and Republicans in panic try to blame Democrats. Chairman Howard Dean has made it clear that Democrats did NOT take money from him though they also took money from Indian Tribes (but independently of Abramoff).

The Democrats.org web site features an editorial by Clarence Page about the Abramoff scandal:

"Post-Scandal Cleanup"
Chicago Tribune
By Clarence Page
January 12, 2006

"It's not healthy to blow your favorite evening beverage through your nostrils. But that's how surprised I was to hear National Democratic Chairman Howard Dean deny that any Democrats took money from Jack Abramoff.

"Unless you've been on the moon for a while, you probably have heard that Abramoff is a formerly well-connected Republican who has pleaded guilty to federal charges tied to his lobbying operations. Right-wing bloggers and others pounced on Dean and flailed away, since a number of Democratic senators and congressmen already have given Abramoff-associated money to charity. How, then, could Dean say otherwise? Right?

"But I checked it out and, guess what? Dean was right." [...] Read the rest at
http://www.democrats.org/a/2006/01/must_read_a_rep.php


© Virginia Metze

Associated Press | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted January 16, 2006 01:53 PM

Huffington Post

Former Vice President Al Gore asserted Monday that President Bush "repeatedly and persistently" broke the law by eavesdropping on Americans without a court warrant and called for a federal investigation of the practice.

Speaking on Martin Luther King Jr.'s national holiday, the man who lost the 2000 presidential election to Bush only after a ruling by the Supreme Court on a recount in Florida, called Bush's warrantless surveillance program "a threat to the very structure of our government." Gore charged that the program has ignored the checks and balances of the courts and Congress. [...] To read the rest, follow link at the end of http://tinyurl.com/d2egu

Among the places you can find the full text of Gore's speech is
http://tinyurl.com/akhgc


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http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3969/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

says Ron Paul.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul299.html

Paul Craig Roberts on Fooled Again, by Mark Crispin Miller.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts140.html