Monday, April 25, 2005
"The soldiers at the bottom are taking the heat, while the guys at the top are going scot free"
This promo image from the Enron documentary The Smartest Guys in the Room kind of reminds me of the cover of this recent album release (and obviously this, of course).
The Smartest Guys in the Room - the movie about the Enron scandal is a go.
And vaguely related on some energy/oil industry ish:
"Speaking to former United Nations communications officials, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said Mr. Hussein pocketed far more from sanctions-skirting oil sales to Jordan and Turkey, which were being monitored by the United States and Britain, than from the scandal-tainted relief program run by the Security Council." (full article "Annan Remark on Oil Sales Draws Nods of Agreement" from The New York Times)
"Insurgents in Iraq have staged increasingly sophisticated attacks in recent weeks, according to US military assessments, moving beyond roadside bombings and suicide attacks to mount large-scale assaults against US and Iraqi forces and civilians.
Senior military strategists, speaking privately, also said they worry that insurgents are making inroads toward sparking a full-blown sectarian war and offered cautions about recent predictions that the United States could significantly reduce its forces from the current 142,000 within a year." (full article "US military worried over change in Iraq attacks" from The Boston Globe)
"Human rights group, Human Rights Watch, issued a report on Saturday calling for a special prosecutor to examine the conduct of Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and the former director of central intelligence, George J. Tenet, in issues related to the abuse of detainees.
So far, the government has shown no interest in an independent inquiry...." (full article "Rights Group Cites Rumsfeld and Tenet in Report on Abuse" from The New York Times)
While finally:
"Federal agencies under the Bush administration are sweeping vast amounts of public information behind a curtain of secrecy in the name of fighting terrorism, using 50 to 60 loosely defined security designations that can be imposed by officials as low-ranking as government clerks.
No one is tracking the amount of unclassified information that is no longer accessible." (full article "In war's name, public loses information" from The Boston Globe)
