double indemnity

budge budge at el-pleasant.org
Wed Jul 10 12:03:33 PDT 2002


On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 at 10:14am joanna bujes wrote:


> The democrats are publishing the following for their own
> purposes. Question, if Bush has already been found
> guilty of whatever violations, doesn't that mean he
> can't be charged again?

the statute of limitations has run out on any SEC violations.


>
> A GWBush.com Alert -- Visit http://gwbush.com for more...
>
> The S.E.C. determined that Bush violated 4 laws in 1990
> with his very timely Harken stock sale. He was found
> guilty. Of course he wasn't punished--his father was
> president at the time.

Spambag Zack is vastly overstating what happened. Tyson Slocum of Public Citizen was on KPFA's Flashpoints yesterday and what the SEC did was not bring charges. They did not 'determine he broke 4 laws'. It is true that the SEC did not *clear* him either. And yes, his former lawyer was General Counsel at the time (now I believe Shrub appointed ambassador to Jordan) and one of Daddy's buddies was chair. Yes the whole thing stinks, but the over inflated rhetoric does nothing except give ammo to his apologists.


> He was not "cleared by the S.E.C." But reporters from
> Cokie Roberts to Peter Jennings have been repeating Bush's
> line that he was cleared as though it were a fact.
>

-- no Onan

Undefeated, everybody goes home



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