4.08.2002

Yet it's all Bush's fault....

Clinton agencies assisted Enron rise -- The Washington Times

Enron Corp. grew in the 1990s from a small Texas natural gas company to a $50 billion global energy-trading giant — with extensive help from the Clinton administration. ...

One key success for the company was getting the administration to propose a new round of world-trade negotiations on energy services, an industry Enron dominated at home and hoped to turn into a trillion-dollar enterprise abroad.

Documents released by the Treasury Department show that President Clinton's trade representative, Charlene Barshefsky, seized upon the idea, offered to her by a coalition of energy companies headed by Enron, and presented it almost verbatim in World Trade Organization negotiations in May 2000....

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