Lieberman Assails Bush Over Corporations

[Socialist Christian]

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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Lieberman attacked several key figures in the Bush administration Thursday, accusing 17 regulators of protecting the corporate interests that once employed them.



"You know the old saying about foxes guarding the hen house," Lieberman said in a speech to be delivered to the Commonwealth Club. "But George Bush has the foxes guarding the foxes, leaving whole industries less accountable and less protected."


Lieberman, the Connecticut senator who has cast himself as a centrist best positioned to challenge Bush on the issue of integrity, singled out three Bush Administration officials.


They were J. Steven Griles, a former mining and oil industry lobbyist who is now Deputy Secretary of the Interior; John Graham, the director of a White House office overseeing environmental regulation who founded a Harvard think tank that produced studies questioning the need for many regulations; and former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Harvey Pitt, who was forced to resign a year ago following the Enron collapse and other corporate scandals when Democrats highlighted his connections to major accounting firms regulated by the SEC.