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Mr. Bush keeps saying all the right things. He is “deeply concerned.” He will “hold people accountable.” But words, like stocks, lose value when nothing backs them up. It is now more than six months since the president promised “a lot of government inquiry into Enron.” Since then, Playboy has done a better job of exposing the women of Enron than the Bush administration has done at exposing its men. Just as the Justice Department rounded up some 1,000 alleged Sept. 11 suspects and failed to indict a single one of them for terrorist activity, so it has made a big show of its shaky Andersen conviction while failing to indict a single Enron executive or individual Andersen accountant. (Not that all the law-enforcement news is downbeat: last month John Ashcroft’s minions held a press conference to boast that a 13-month investigation had led to the arrest of 12 prostitutes in New Orleans.)

From a great Op-Ed piece by Frank Rich in today’s New York Times [via How Do You Know That?] on corporate America’s “wrongdoers,” not to be confused with the “evildoers” of the war on terrorism.

Chuck posted this on Sunday, July 7, 2002 at 2:34 pm. Comments Off

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