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ENRON FILES: Abramoff? Reed? Delay?? Yes.

by rcs1

One of the toughest part of the Bush NSA spying scandal is to get your brain around the idea of how can they possible pick and choose bits of information they sucked up with their huge vacuum cleaner.  We're about to give you a demonstration of how it works.

Thanks to a tip sent in to us, we found a unique tool:

http://orange.sims.berkeley.edu/~atf/enron/enron.cgi


daily news :: :: :: buzz-it!
You may find the bona fides behind the database in a discussion here:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70100-0.html?tw=wn_index_1

The question is:  How to use it?  Let's see what we find when we type in "Abramoff" - was he mentioned within Enron's emails?

Ah - yes, he certainly was:

> From: ralph@censtrat.com
To: rshapiro@enron.com
Cc:
Bcc:
Date: 19 Dec 2000 15:19 PST
Subject: abramoff

Rick, good to see you today. excited about the
prospects of the new office, kitchen cabinet/advisory team, etc.

as we discussed, jack abramoff is joining barry richards' law firm,Greenberg Traurig, on january 1. richards was just named lawyer of the year by the American lawyer while abramoff is arguably the most influential and effective gop lobbyist in congress. i share several clients with him and have yet to see him lose a battle. he also is very close to Delay and could
help enormously on that front. raised $ for bush.
until december 31 he can be reached at 202-661-3851. he assistant is Susan Ralston.

That's Rick Shapiro he is talking to. Susan's phone number would have been easy to give out - Reed was best bud's with Rove and Susan was Rove's assistant before going to work for Abramoff.  

Other interesting connections are there for the searching, here are some suggested ones:

Ed Buckham, Alexander Strategy Group (ASG), Delay, Abramoff, Joe Hillings (he was campaigning to start an Ambassadorship right after his Enron retirement), Richard Shapiro - he was in charge of lobbying in Washington for Enron, ARMPAC, TRMPAC.  How about Linda Robertson of Enron, she was hired as a lobbyist also.

It is very simple to search on any of these terms.  Just go to the database link above, pull down "full text" and select it, type in the name or names you are looking for and click SEARCH.

Voila!  Clickable, readable information.

Another search might find this:


From:
2b9e4c22@censtrat.com
To: mpalmer@enron.com, rshapiro@enron.com
Subject: FW: FYI...
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 11:20:00 -0700 (PDT)

assume you saw this. there's more of this coming from the Senate side soon
and we will need a strategy.

 from today's Congress Daily...

ENERGY
 Dems Ask Burton To Investigate Cheney's Energy Task Force
 House Government Reform Committee Democrats Tuesday wrote
 Government Reform Chairman Burton to urge him to look into Vice
 President Cheney's energy task force, which met privately with
 major Republican donors in formulating the Bush administration's
 energy policy, the Associated Press reported. Government Reform
 ranking member Henry Waxman, D-Calif., asked Burton to conduct a
 hearing on what took place at the Cheney group's secret meetings
 and the identities of all participants. "The Cheney task force
 has conducted its meetings in private, and reportedly has
 obtained input from private citizens and groups, including
 political contributors," Waxman wrote in the letter. The AP
 reported last month that GOP contributors - including executives
 from power wholesaler Enron and the Edison Electric Institute,
 the utility industry lobbying group - had met with Cheney to
 discuss energy policy. A committee spokesman said the Republican
 staff has not had a chance to discuss the letter with Burton.

This is just a readable database illustrating the contents of Bush's vacuum cleaner bag.  And it sucks.

You might want to take a shower after perusing the files.  Pull the curtains and double check the doors first, you never know who is watching.

Display:
I hope that ePM is able to connect a few choice dots using this tool, but the fact that it was used as an academic assignment indicates the means for government to benefit from their labors is built into the open source of the thing.

Sure, Enron is properly outted, but King George got his social data dissembler built for him on MIT, Stanford, etc's dime.

I did a couple of searches beginning with Uzbekistan...which led to the topic of company partners on Bush's terrorist list which led to of all things...THE FIRM.

The preemininent consulting firm, known as the firm, aka McKinsey...found a funny email:
Message 11363

From: Rosalee Fleming <rosalee.fleming@enron.com>
To: bill_lewis@mckinsey.com
Cc:
Bcc:
Date: 06 Dec 2000 10:44 PST
Subject: Re: New Administration

Hi Mr. Lewis -

Ken asked me to send you an e-mail stating that he would be happy to submit
your name for consideration to Dick Cheney. He asked if you would please
send him a current bio.

Thanks.

Rosalee

on 11/28/2000 03:43:58 PM
To: Kenneth.lay@enron.com
cc:
Subject: New Administration

Ken,

Sorry to miss you today when I called. Since I am leaving for India in a
few minutes, I thought I would sent you an E-mail, and then I can try to
call you from India. Because of the time difference, it will not be easy
for us to connect. Unfortunately I will not be back in the US until
December 7.

The reason for my call was to see if you would feel comfortable putting my
name forward to Dick Cheney for a position in the new administration. I am
not sure where the best fit would be, but it might be Chairman of the
National Economic Council. That job has a good combination of management
and economics. You know I have only been associated with Democratic
administrations in past, but Democratic administrations were a little
different in those days. You are somewhat familiar with my record on
economics and there is a lot on that in the public domain.

Just let me know what you think. Maybe a quick E-mail would suffice ( I am
carrying my computer).

Best regards,
Bill

Strange bedfellows, indeed.


by polydactyl on Wed Feb 01, 2006 at 06:06:49 PM EST

But still, if nothing else, these
sure emphatically illustrate how the same players seem to keep coming up -- Abramoff, Delay and the almost "blackmail" like demands for contributions, Eberle, GOPUSA...

No longer tinfoil hat terrority that they were all "intertwined."

Evidence that Delay was pushing for a Republican VP fore Enron -- What's with that?  Why is that conversation even happening?

by Cho on Wed Feb 01, 2006 at 06:26:15 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Moon Of Alabama

Thanks so much for sending the tip in, we are like kids in a candy shop.  Who knows where this trail will lead?

by kfred on Tue Jan 31, 2006 at 10:17:05 PM EST

This was a great tip. The Enron Email database is similar to the NSA vacuum...I'm sure none of the people that worked for Enron or forwarded emails to Enron employees could have known that their messages would be openly available to the public for unfettered access...

At this point, we need to get this information out across the blogosphere so that the nuggets can be datamined...the potential for damning information is there.
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by wanderindiana on Tue Jan 31, 2006 at 10:25:06 PM EST
[ Parent ]

to rob the American taxpayer blind.

Ugh.  Shower is right, Kfred.


by Cho on Tue Jan 31, 2006 at 10:59:30 PM EST

It is an email from Reed to Shapiro. Reed was pimp this woman Elizabeth Stolpe to work in Enron's washington offices. I did a google search and this is what I found.

From Center for American Progress

The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) also got into the act. Staff member Elizabeth Stolpe, a former employee of Koch Industries - the oil, gas, and petrochemical giant known in political circles as a major supporter of right-wing causes - appears to have removed references to a determination by the prestigious National Academy of Sciences that EPA's reference dose for mercury (the level below which scientists believe exposure is safe) was "scientifically justifiable." Stolpe further deleted EPA statements that children born to women with elevated mercury levels were at increased risk of "adverse health effects" and that there is no safe level of methyl mercury in blood. Instead, she added language to the draft arguing that advisories about mercury in fish obviate the need for government regulation, because they give women the opportunity to protect their babies by avoiding fish.

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today. - Gandhi
by XicanoPwr on Tue Jan 31, 2006 at 11:11:16 PM EST
In a short email, it was a big screw you CA. How christian.

From: ralph@censtrat.com
To: mpalmer@enron.com <mpalmer@enron.com>, Steve Kean <skean@enron.com>
Cc:
Bcc:
Date: 20 Jun 2001 11:58 PDT
Subject: DOE Releases Price Controls Study; CA Blackouts May Worsen

i assume you saw this but this is a great message for whatever we undertake in CA. see you friday. if you need to chat before that, just buzz me in the office or on the cell.


A great message!!!!
Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today. - Gandhi
by XicanoPwr on Tue Jan 31, 2006 at 11:21:49 PM EST

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by avahome on Wed Feb 01, 2006 at 08:58:04 AM EST
Yes, there is a ton of stuff, but alot of it is favorable press releases or WhiteHouse propoganda issued via his lips.

by kfred on Wed Feb 01, 2006 at 09:17:42 AM EST

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