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Your article danced around the idea of a possible White House scandal while offering the weakest support of the allegations I have ever read. So five years ago, while George W. Bush was Governor of Texas, Karl Rove recommended Ralph Reed for a job at Enron. How is that illegal or unethical? And a few sentences in a government report may have been altered at the suggestion of Ken Lay. But that is unimportant, because the energy policy the report advocated was never enacted by Congress. You need to focus on fair and balanced reporting. DAN LONG Huntingdon Valley...
Another name on Lay's White House list was that of Nora Brownell, a Pennsylvania utility regulator. Enron discovered her in 1997 when it was trying to break into the lucrative Pennsylvania electricity market. (That year Bush adviser Karl Rove recommended that Enron hire political strategist Ralph Reed to build grass-roots support in the state.) Lay also jumped into the Pennsylvania fray, urging Bush to call his friend Governor Tom Ridge on behalf of Enron. "I called George W. to kind of tell him what was going on," Lay explained to the New York Times. "And I said that...
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That would be a rare spectacle for everyone in Washington who spends time charting and discussing Rove's moves. The top political adviser to every President takes on celebrity status around town, and like those who have come before him, Rove doesn't mind encouraging the perception that he has a hand in just about every political deal that goes down. As a result, people assume that every story they hear about him is true--which is why some insiders don't believe him when he insists he didn't pull strings with Enron to help curry favor with Reed...
...some of his denials are worth believing. At the end of the 2000 presidential campaign, for example, the owlish Rove was suspected as the mastermind behind a scheme involving a stolen videotape of George W. Bush's debate preparations. Many were convinced that Rove had mailed the tape to the Gore campaign, hoping strategists there would secretly watch it. Then at just the right moment, Rove would leap out and expose them as sneaks willing to do anything to get ahead. Some in the press even published the whole yarn as if it were known to be true...