Bush’s Enron Lies…
May 25th, 2006When Ken Lay’s Enron Corp. collapsed in fall 2001, George W. Bush’s defenders said the President proved his ethical mettle by rebuffing pleas to bail out Lay, one of Bush’s top political donors. But that story wasn’t true.
Behind the scenes, Bush pushed several plans to put hundreds of millions of dollars in Enron’s coffers. One scheme was run by the National Security Council in summer 2001, while it was ignoring warnings about an impending al-Qaeda attack.
For the full story about Bush’s secret plan to save Enron, read it all at the independent Consortiumnews.com.
