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The Guardian Unlimited Cheney's old skeletons rattle Bush

"As Washington attempts to take a firm grip on the accounting scandals and corporate greed that have stunned America, the White House is being forced to tread a difficult line. An administration packed with former businessmen is looking extremely vulnerable to accusations of at best, hypocrisy, at worst, past financial misdeeds of their own.

While President Bush has vowed to hunt down corporate wrongdoers, Mr Cheney has noticeably slipped back into the shadows. "

Common Dreams Halliburton to Build New Cells at Guantanamo Base
"Halliburton Co. has been awarded a $9.7 million contract to build an additional 204-cell detention camp at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to hold additional suspected al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners, the Pentagon said on Friday."

"Vice President Dick Cheney is the former chief executive officer of Halliburton, whose main business is providing oilfield services. The company has come under heavy pressure this year because of concerns about its liabilities and a probe by the Securities and Exchange Commission into its accounting for cost overruns on construction projects."

redux [07.09.02]
Salon Look out, George!
"George W. Bush has offered varying accounts over the past decade of his dealings as a Harken director. Back when he was running for Texas governor in 1994, he blamed the Securities and Exchange Commission for misplacing the disclosure forms he was supposed to file about his insider sale of 212,000 shares of Harken stock. At another point, he blamed the Harken lawyers, even though the filing wasn't their responsibility at all. Lately, his spokesman has tried to blame his own attorney (who now serves as the U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia). "I still haven't figured it out completely," Bush shrugged on Monday afternoon.

In other words, everybody was responsible for his failure to observe the securities laws except him."

The Boston Globe Democrats target Bush's business ethics
"When the stock market was soaring and investors were benefiting from it, the idea of having a CEO-style president and an administration full of former corporate executives appealed to many Americans.

But with the disclosure of several big-ticket corporate scandals - and the thousands of workers left without jobs in a foundering economy - Bush's opponents believe they can turn the president's one-time advantage into a political liability."

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