{"id":15735,"date":"2002-07-10T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-10T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/10\/w-made-a-speech-on-wall-street-yesterday-on\/"},"modified":"2002-07-10T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-10T12:59:00","slug":"w-made-a-speech-on-wall-street-yesterday-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/10\/w-made-a-speech-on-wall-street-yesterday-on\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>W made a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/bush\/story\/0,7369,752651,00.html\" title=\"text of speech, probably corrected for grammar and pronunciation ;-)\" target=\"_blank\">speech<\/a> on Wall Street yesterday on corporate accountability and ethics in the wake of the Enron and WorldCom scandals.  However, it has been suggested that the &ldquo;new&rdquo; standards that are supposed to be enforced by an FBI &ldquo;corporate SWAT team&rdquo; would have landed both W and Vice President Cheney in jail for accounting practices of the companies they headed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/bush\/story\/0,7369,751821,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Harken Energy<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/bush\/story\/0,7369,752722,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Halliburton<\/a>, respectively.  I wonder how long it will take the American press to get a whiff of the blatant duplicity of W&rsquo;s new &ldquo;hard&rdquo; stance on corporate accountability, which is by no means coincidental to the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong>  Apparently, W&rsquo;s ploy of appearing as a regular guy fighting corporate fraud has not gone unnoticed: the New York Times has a piece that has some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/07\/07\/opinion\/07KRUG.html?ex=1027322063&amp;ei=1&amp;en=b64371712dbe316a\" target=\"_blank\">more details of W&rsquo;s financial dealings with Harken<\/a> and the kinds of &ldquo;creative accounting&rdquo; they used, not unlike WorldCom and Enron, come to think of it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-78773778?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>W made a speech on Wall Street yesterday on corporate accountability and ethics in the wake of the Enron and WorldCom scandals. However, it has been suggested that the &ldquo;new&rdquo; standards that are supposed to be enforced by an FBI &ldquo;corporate SWAT team&rdquo; would have landed both W and Vice President Cheney in jail for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/10\/w-made-a-speech-on-wall-street-yesterday-on\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}