While the implosion of Enron is almost as murky as the bankrupt company’s financing schemes, its self-dealing and scamming have evoked memories of other great business scandals, such as Teapot Dome and the South Sea Bubble. Whether or not those analogies ever prove to be justified, the most compelling political comparison for the moment is Read More
Aside from embarrassing the Justice Department and the F.B.I., the release of Wen Ho Lee marks the conclusion of yet another once-horrifying scandal now relegated to a fat file under the heading of “Oh, Never Mind.” There the voluminous clippings about what not long ago was deemed the “worst national security breach since the Rosenberg Read More
Anybody who remains unconvinced at this late date that the Whitewater prosecution is strictly a partisan production need only turn their gaze toward New York, where the final act of this long-running legal farce is about to be staged.
The action will resume when a press release on the stationery of the Office of Independent Read More
One of the city’s big men, to use the archaic term of deference once applied to the excruciatingly rich, invited me to lunch the other day. I will not mention the restaurant because they don’t need more business. The food was excellent and the ladies-who-lunch could not have looked more attractive, but the conversation was Read More
Despite his undignified tumble down Capitol Hill, we will surely hear from David Bossie again. As the indefatigable activist warned during his farewell tour of the Sunday-morning talk shows, he intends to continue his anti-Clinton crusade “in the private sector.” Right now, he’s angling for a book deal.
While we anticipate his own version Read More
Caryn Mann has discovered what happens to a woman who says things the press and the pundits don’t want to hear. If you have heard of Ms. Mann, you probably know she has accused her former boyfriend, Parker Dozhier, of giving cash payments and other benefits to David Hale, the chief Whitewater witness against the Read More
In their ritual review of the Zeitgeist at year’s end, many journalists fretted that Americans seem almost wholly uninterested in political news. Readers are bored with public affairs, unless they are the affairs of public figures. Such ennui casts doubt upon the role of a free press in a democratic society, and ought to raise Read More
