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Part 2

HUGE NEW CHENEY HALLIBURTON EXPOSÉ 
Accounting Fraud On Veep's Watch
The Enron Pattern: Investors Deceived
Arthur Andersen?  Yep, Arthur Andersen
Times Treats As Business Story

As if the media firestorms over the Bush 9/11 scandal and the 
Administration's bullying scare tactics weren't enough, there comes 
fresh news that Vice President Richard Cheney established fraudulent 
and perhaps illegal accounting schemes while he was CEO of the 
Halliburton corporation at the end of the 1990's.

The New York Times reports:

"During Vice President Dick Cheney's tenure as its chief executive, 
the Halliburton Corporation altered its accounting policies so it 
could report as revenue more than $100 million in disputed costs on 
big construction projects, public filings by the company show. 
Halliburton did not disclose the charge to investors for over a
year."

The change helped Halliburton cover up the huge losses it was 
suffering under Cheney following the corporation's absorption of 
asbestos-king pin Dresser Industries, and amid a recession in the oil 
industry.

According to the Times, two former Dresser executives have said "that 
they concluded after the merger that Halliburton had instituted 
aggressive accounting practices to obscure its losses."

And which accounting firm apparently connived with Cheney's 
Halliburton to deceive investors?  Why none other than Enron's book-
cooker of choice, the now disgraced and indicted Arthur Andersen firm.

Halliburton's chief financial officer, Doug Forshee, has told the 
Times, in a carefully worded statement, "that he could not imagine 
that Mr. Cheney had specifically approved " the shady change in 
Halliburton's accounting methods.

This, of course, leaves open the large possibilities that Mr. 
Forshee's imagination is underdeveloped -- or that Cheney merely 
approved the deceptive changes in a "general" and not a "specific" 
way. Which, come to think of it, is a bit like mishandling "general" 
as opposed to "specific" terrorist warnings.  But we digress.

As the Times points out, either way, Forshee's defense won't wash.

As CEO, the paper observes, "Mr. Cheney had final responsibility for 
Halliburton's books."

Responsibility. A nice clear word.  Especially when it comes to a man 
who snarls and bullies and calls his political adversaries 
irresponsible (not to mention unpatriotic) at the drop of a hat.

Accounting specialists confirmed to the Times that the 
Cheney/Halliburton scheme at the very least stretched and quite 
possibly violated securities accounting ethics and laws.

The change was "clearly a way of pumping up revenues and 
receivables," said Paul Brown, chairman of the accounting department 
at the Stern School of Business at New York University.

So: Will anybody -- anybody -- hold Dick Cheney responsible for his 
alleged manipulations and frauds as head of Halliburton?

Remember, this outrage occurred as recently as 1998 and 1999.  Three 
years ago.  And it involved at least $100 million dollars in 
fraudulent overstatement.

When Bill Clinton was president, Congress and the duped media pushed 
for and got a $70 million investigation into an ancient Arkansas land 
deal, in which the Clintons actually lost money, and which was 
discounted by the Resolution Trust Corporation as a scandal as early 
as 1996. They launched that investigation on the basis of the 
testimony not of two respected executives and several accounting 
practice experts, but a drug-addicted con man and a shady Clinton 
hater named Hale, backed by a vicious assortment of old 
segregationists, right-wing kooks, and publicity hounds.

Now comes the Cheney/Halliburton scandal.

Where is the outrage, ladies and gentlemen?

More important, where are the congressional committees, the 
impassioned editorials in the New York Times and the Washington Post 
calling for full disclosure, the endless round of "impeachment is 
imminent" blather on talk radio and cable TV? Where are Harvey Pitt 
and the Securities and Exchange Commission?

Where are they?  Why, they're just not there.  Why not?

You decide.

And while you're deciding, ponder this:

Not since Vice-President Spiro Agnew left the vice-presidency in 
disgrace after revelations of his involvement in a graft kick-back 
scheme while Governor of Maryland has any Vice President come under 
such an ethical cloud as Dick Cheney is under now.  And compared to 
Cheney's $100 million scam, Agnew's boodling operation was penny-ante.

The Agnew case was immediately seen as a political scandal, one that 
predated Richard Nixon's downfall over Watergate.

Yet the New York Times has decided to cover the Cheney scheme as a 
business story and not a political story.

Why?

You decide.

*****

WINGER PRESS BLASTS BUSH MANIPULATION
Moonie Times: It's All Political
NY Post: Get Lost, Mueller
The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself!
War Hero McCain Berates Chicken Hawks Bush And Cheney

In astonishing smashjaw attacks on the Bush Administration, two of 
the nation's leading wingnut dailies have joined the rising chorus of 
denunciation of the Bushies' current "change-the-subject" terror 
warning scare.

Almost matter of factly, The Washington Moonie Times has in passing 
actually reported the truth:

"The Bush administration issued a spate of terror alerts in recent 
days to mute criticism that its national security team sat on 
intelligence warnings in the weeks before the September 11 attacks."

The Murdoch-run New York Post has devoted an entire editorial 
denouncing the scare tactics, telling FBI Director Mueller to shut up 
and go away, and quoting the immortal line of a real president, 
Franklin D. Roosevelt, that "the only thing we have to fear is fear 
itself."

(OK, the Post mangles the line a little, but Murdoch papers aren't 
used to quoting Democrats approvingly, and the basic sense of the 
line is left intact.)

Meanwhile, over at the Wash Post, Senator John McCain has written an 
Op-Ed charging that "the government of the United States, which [Bush 
and Cheney] now have the privilege of leading, failed the American 
people in the weeks, months and years leading up to Sept. 11." McCain 
then lays out his argument in favor of an independent probe.

So much for the White House lies that criticism of its failures is 
partisan, politically-inspired, and unpatriotic.

*****

WHITE HOUSE CONFESSES PARTISAN SCARE CAMPAIGN
No Bigger Threat -- Except From Democrats!!
Bush Official: Campaign As Phony As A $3 Bill

Stung by the refusal of even the Media Whores to fall for their 
latest bullying ploys, White House officials have confessed what 
everyone else figured out some time ago -- that the scare campaign 
launched over the weekend is just a political scheme to fend off 
criticism and attack the Democrats.

The Toronto Globe & Mail reports that, Wednesday, the White House 
quietly acknowledged that the threats are not urgent and that the 
warnings are partly motivated by political objectives.

"There will be another terrorist attack. We will not be able to stop 
it," [F.B.I. Director Robert] Mueller told a gathering of prosecutors 
in Virginia. "It's something we all live with."

However, White House officials told reporters that the blunt warnings 
issued yesterday and Sunday do not reflect a dramatic increase in 
threatening information but rather a desire to fend off criticism 
from the Democrats.

The Bushies' cynicism here is breathtaking -- more so even than with 
their original cyncial ploy!!

The White House thinks it can scare the hell out of millions of 
Americans in order to advance its partisan political agenda, and 
then, when caught red-handed, can simply say, like Gilda Radner's old 
Emila Latella on Saturday Night Live: "Oh! Never mind!" And THEN the 
White House imagines it can get away with it.

Breathtaking.

But maybe they can get away with it.

You know, who reads the Toronto papers, right?

The media will get back in their tanks, right?

One day of tough questions, and then they'll be back to propping up 
Boy King, right?

Well, MWO reads the Toronto papers.

And we'll be on the lookout for whorishness, as ever.

Just remember -- the White House is now a confessed bunch of partisan 
liars and scaremongers.

Just don't let their little confession excuse their crimes.

*****

WHO'S LYING:  BUSH OR CHENEY?
WHO KNOWS ANYMORE?
Confused Administration Discredits Self
Cheney: Controversy Did Not Influence Warnings
Ari:  Bush Says Controversy Influenced Warnings

Cheney denies politics, blames Democrats: 

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney denied Wednesday that a 
flurry of public terror warnings was prompted by criticism over how 
the Bush administration handled pre-Sept. 11 warnings of an attack. 

In an interview taped for airing Wednesday night on CNN's "Larry King 
Live," Cheney said "irresponsible" comments by Democrats did not 
influence the administration's warnings to the public this week. 

"The fact is there is reason to believe that the threat level has 
increased somewhat," Cheney said. "We see more noise in the system, 
more reporting that leads us to be cautious here. We haven't changed 
our practices at all in terms of when we decide to go public and 
caution people."


..but Ari admits criticism behind warnings:

The latest alerts were issued "as a result of all the controversy 
that took place last week," said Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer, 
referring to reports that the president received a CIA briefing in 
August about terror threats, including plans by Osama bin Laden's al 
Qaeda network to hijack U.S. commercial airliners.


Ari:  Bush says criticism behind warnings:

"Look," Fleischer said, "you know I don't say anything unless I hear 
it from his mouth. Ever."

*****

WHITE HOUSE FORCED TO ADMIT SECRET ENRON TIES
First Disturbing Yield From The Congressional Subpoena
But Confession Only Skimpy Compared To What Senate Demanded
Lieberman Presses For More
What Else Are They Hiding?

Only hours after a Senate committee issued the first congressional 
subpeoneas yet to the Bush White House, the administration was forced 
to hand over documentation of numerous previously secret ties between 
itself and the Enron Corporation, in connection with the Cheney 
Energy Task Force, the California phony energy crisis, Enron's 
collapse last fall, and appointments to federal posts, including the 
chairmanship of the Federal Energy Regulation Commission.

The documentation also revealed that Kenneth "Kenny Boy" Lay and 
other Enron executives attended numerous White House functions in 
2001, which appears to contradict earlier White House claims that 
contact between Lay and George W. Bush had been much more limited 
after Bush took office.

When the Enron scandal broke in earnest last January, Bush claimed he 
had not seen the man he referred to distantly as "Mr. Lay" since the 
previous spring, at the Celebration of Reading gala sponsored by 
Bush's mother, Barbara,  in Houston, on April 27, 2001.

It remains to be determined whether any of Mr. Lay's White House 
visits, as revealed in the new documentation, came after that date 
and, if they did, whether Mr. Lay somehow avoided meeting with Bush.

What is plain, though, is that contact between Enron and the Bush 
White House was much more extensive than the White House had earlier 
lead the press and the public to believe.

And even then, what the document reveals is only the tip of the 
iceberg --  far less than the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee 
and its chairman, Senator Joseph Lieberman, have demanded to see.

"It appears that the White House is still providing only what it 
thinks is relevant, rather than what the committee asked force," said 
Leslie Phillips, a spokeswoman for the committee, after the new 
documentation was released.

Developing fast -- but all too slowly for MWO's liking...

*****

PHOENIX MEMO REVEALED!!
"Chilling" Says Fortune Magazine
Cheney's Nonsense Exposed
Why The Bushies Are Stonewalling

Fortune reporter Richard Behar has filed a report exposing the 
contents of the notorious FBI Phonix memorandum.

Behar is the first reporter to gain access to the text of the actual 
memo, which the Bush Administration is doing its utmost to keep 
secret.

And, Behar writes, the memo's contents are "chilling":

The memo was written by Phoenix FBI Special Agent Kenneth J. 
Williams, described as a member of "Squad 16," and it was approved by 
a man named William A. Kurtz.  The title reads: "Zakaria Mustapha 
Soubra; IT-OTHER (Islamic Army of the Caucasus)." The "synopsis" 
says: "Usama bin Laden and Al-Muhjiroun supporters attending civil 
aviation universities/colleges in Arizona." And the memo bears the 
FBI codes: "Derived from G-3" and "Declassify on X1."

Soubra, the memo said, was a student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical 
University in Prescott, Ariz. (According to the Los Angeles Times, he 
was questioned by FBI agents  in 2000, after he was observed at a 
shooting range with another Muslim, who was a  veteran of Islamic 
jihads in the Balkans and the Middle East. No charges were brought 
against him, and he is currently a senior at Embry-Riddle.) The 
organization named in the memo's title, the Islamic Army of the 
Caucasus, is based in Chechnya and was at one time headed by a man 
named Amir Khattab, who, according news  reports, is suspected of 
having ties to Osama bin Laden.

The FBI's probe of Soubra, according to the Williams memo, was 
instituted on April 17, 2000, nearly 17 months before last year's 
terror attacks. Williams warns in his July 10 memo of a 
possible "effort by Usama bin Laden to send students to the U.S. to 
attend civil aviation universities and colleges." He also refers to 
a "fatwa by Al-Muhjiroun, spiritual leader Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed 
Fostok." (Fostok, according to news reports, once ran a London-based 
radical group called the Islamic Liberation Party, dedicated to 
overthrowing Western society. He was arrested for suggesting that it 
was permissible to kill then British Prime Minister John Major,  
which he denied and was released without any charges being filed.)

The Williams memo included the names of several Middle Eastern 
students, one identified as a "Saudi national," who were apparently 
students at Embry-Riddle at the time. One reason FBI officials have 
given for not releasing the memo is that several of these individuals 
are still under investigation. So, although those names are now in my 
notebook, they will not be published here.

Behar's shocking report exposes the ridiculous chicanery resorted to 
by Vice President Dick Cheney in recent days.

On the one hand, Cheney has insisted that the Phoenix memo contained 
nothing special, just more non-specific "chatter" of no real use to 
authorities.

On the other hand, Cheney has insisted that to make the Phoneix memo 
public would be a horrible violation of national security, tantamount 
to "giving away the family jewels."

The Media Whores are content to let Cheney get away with this glaring 
contradiction.

An unimportant memo that is also of earth-shattering importance?

"Anything you say, Mr. Veep!"

Well, now Richard Behar has blown Cheney and the Bushies' cover.

Of course the Phoenix memo is important -- not because it compromises 
national security but because it shows that Bush's F.B.I. is 
astonishingly incompetent.

The reason the Administration wants to keep the memo secret has 
nothing to do with national security.

It has everything to do with the Administration's political security.

But now that Richard Behar -- of capitalist tool Fortune, no less -- 
has exposed all of this, will the Media Whores follow up?

*****

SHELBY TO CHENEY: SHUT YOUR TRAP AND COME CLEAN!!
Alabama G.O.P. Senator Defies  Republic Party Line
Says Democrats Have "Obligation" To Ask Questions

In a report in the Washington Times, Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL), 
ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has publicly 
broken with the Administration over the motives behind an independent 
investigation into the events preceding the terrorist atrocities of 
September 11.

George W. Bush has firmly rejected calls for an investigation, and 
has killed the release of the controversial August 6 briefing 
contents. Vice President Richard Cheney and other prominent Republics 
have also denounced and ridiculed the call for an independent probe 
as nothing more than partisan politics.

But now, Senator Shelby, through the vehicle of the Moonie paper, has 
told Bush, Cheney, the Administration, and its supporters, kindly to 
stuff it:

"Democrats have an obligation to ask questions about who knew what, 
but so does everybody else in the Senate and House have an obligation 
to scrutinize events and to think for themselves," Alabama Sen. 
Richard C. Shelby said in an interview.

"Republicans ought to be asking questions that go above politics, and 
that go to the security of this country," said Mr. Shelby, the 
ranking member of the Select Senate Committee on Intelligence.

Senator Shelby had thus joined the Weekly Standard, George Will, and 
much of the rest of the D.C. right-wing establishment in warning the 
Administration it is making a mockery of national security.

The conservative crack-up continues.

Will the Media Whores report it?

Will they ask Ari whether, in light of Shelby's comments, as well as 
those of other prominent Republics, the White House still views the 
call for an independent probe as strictly a "partisan" effort?  If it 
does, how does he explain the support of Richard Shelby, John McCain, 
William Kristol, George Will, and many other leading Republics for 
precisely such an investigation?  Are they really partisan Democrats, 
too, in extremely clever disguise?

*****

THE MOST CYNICAL WHITE HOUSE SINCE NIXON'S
Bush Administration Will Say, Do Anything To Gain Power
Fearmongers, Dividers, Bullies 

An MWO Commentary

The country is at last beginning to wake up the the fact that the 
crew now in charge of the White House is the most cynical bunch of 
fearmongers and dividers to have occupied the place since the days of 
Richard M. Nixon.

One doesn't have to look far for confirmation that the Bushies have 
deliberately spread war fears of imminent attack in order to turn 
public attention away from the breaking scandals about their own 
incompetence before September 11.

The Washington Times has said so:

"The Bush administration issued a spate of terror alerts in recent 
days to mute criticism that its national security team sat on 
intelligence warnings in the weeks before the September 11 attacks."

Unnamed White House officials have said so:

"However, White House officials told reporters that the blunt 
warnings issued yesterday and Sunday do not reflect a dramatic 
increase in threatening information but rather a desire to fend off 
criticism from the Democrats." (Toronto Globe and Blade)

Heck, even Ari Fleischer has said so:

"The latest alerts were issued 'as a result of all the controversy 
that took place last week,' said Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer, 
referring to reports that the president received a CIA briefing in 
August about terror threats, including plans by Osama bin Laden's al 
Qaeda network to hijack U.S. commercial airliners.

All of these "new" alert supposedly from a top Al Qaeda detainee 
who's been in custody for months, and out of contact with his network.

Are we really supposed to believe this source is up on the latest of 
what his fellow maniacs are planning?

When was the last time a White House Administration so brazenly 
manipulated the fears of the American people to advance its own 
narrow partisan agenda?

When was the last time a White House was so purposefully divisive in 
its rhetoric, branding any who oppose its policies as unpatriotic and 
dangerous to the national security?

One would have to go back to the White House of Poppy Bush's old 
patron, Richard Nixon.

The White House where the likes of William Safliar got their starts, 
spreading character assassination by alliteration throughout the land.

The White House of black bag jobs and the young Dick Cheney and dirty 
tricks and the young Don Rumsfeld.

The White House where what one convicted criminal called the art of 
political "ratf*cking" was raised to a dirty art form.

Not since Nixon -- that's what we're seeing here with the Dubya 
Administration's arrogant, bullying attempt to get its way, by any 
means necessary.

Including raising fears that not only discourage the American people 
but make the conduct of foreign policy even more tenuous.

One begins to get the impression that this Administration would 
gladly endanger the security of the entire world if it suited Dubya's 
political convenience.

Not since Nixon.

Dubya's the One.

The main differences?

Nixon was elected.

And thirty years ago, young Woodward and Bernstein were there to do 
there jobs, unlike the craven, corrupt Whores of today.