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...glad that the administration has said it will not invoke such arguments. Executive privilege was intended to protect private conversations between the president and his counsel, not between the vice president and energy executives—especially when some of those executives may be implicated in a financial scandal of the highest order. Neither Clinton nor Nixon could successfully extend the doctrine to protect private conversations outside of their small circle of counsel and cabinet; Cheney should take note of this historical precedent...
Soon after, then-Trade and Industry Minister Peter Mandelson chose not to submit the company's $2 billion takeover of the a British utility called Wessex Water to a review by antitrust authorities. This coincidence did not go unnoticed by the nation's broadsheet press: it received the mild scandal treatment in the left-wing Sunday newspaper, the Observer, while the daily Independent wryly called the decision "a test case for companies which have made donations to the Labour Party." In 1999, the party itself held an internal inquiry scrutinizing the payments. But soon the story was mostly forgotten, filed...
...citizenship. The Katz Committee reported that real mean hourly wages of Harvard’s custodians fell 13 percent. Meanwhile the percentage of Harvard custodians who have high school diplomas fell 19 percent and the percentage who are U.S. citizens fell 24 percent. It is hardly a scandal that a less educated custodial staff with, presumably, somewhat less facility in the English language isn’t paid quite as much...
...investors cannot be confident in the information they receive about companies then they face more risk, interest rates rise and it becomes more difficult for all companies, even honest ones, to raise money. Therefore, the government’s response to the business scandal of Enron’s collapse should be twofold. First, it should enact laws to better regulate the energy market and prevent firms from hiding losses. Second, the government needs to eliminate the conflicts of interest facing accounting firms and ensure that they make adequate audits. To do this, the government should create a new agency...
...legal, is it good PR? Is Cheney making a major public relations mistake by withholding any information? Spilling the beans, says Melanson, is almost always the best option in cases like this. "History shows that the public does not abide secrecy when there's a domestic scandal going on - even if there was no wrongdoing," he says. And, he adds, there is still time for the Bush administration to reverse course. "What the White House should have done, and still can do, is say, okay, we still believe our claim of executive privilege, but things have changed in this case...