IP: What Cheney won't, Lazarus does

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

> From: "Janos G." <janos451@earthlink.net>
> To: "jg" <janos451@earthlink.net>
>
>
> With its "Hollywood North" arts coverage, the SF Chron is pretty awful since
> it became the local Hearst rag, but I was impressed to see this today *on
> top* of the page, above the State of the Union report (whose writer did a
> hell of a job with the opening sentence - that was sumpthin'!) -
>
>  THE ENRON COLLAPSE
> Memo details Cheney--Enron links
> Company's suggestions resembled elements of the administration's energy
> policy
>
> David Lazarus, SF Chronicle, 1/30/02
>
> While the White House insists that details of its talks with Enron officials
> remain secret, a memo outlining those discussions reveals the extent to
> which the Houston energy giant lobbied to influence government policy.
>
> The memo, a copy of which was obtained by The Chronicle, was handed by
> former Enron Chairman Ken Lay to Vice President Dick Cheney last April when
> the two met to discuss the administration's response to California's energy
> crisis.
>
> The White House acknowledged last night that aspects of the memo resembled
> elements of Cheney's energy plan, but it refused to say whether the document
> was included in notes that Cheney now refuses to divulge to congressional
> investigators.
>
>
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/01/30/MN46204.DTL
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Janos Gereben/SF
> janos451@earthlink.net

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