Salon: Oh, the stories he could tell!

[MrBenchley]

"Now that former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay has been indicted for his role in the company's downfall (the specific charges are to be unsealed Thursday), the question that needs to be asked is: Will he turn against the Bushes?
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But what if Lay responds with his own Machiavellian move? Others crossed by George W. Bush have decided to speak out rather than stand by quietly. Paul O'Neill did so after he was forced out as treasury secretary. The Bush administration's chief of counterterrorism, Richard Clarke, also emerged as a critic. Both men wrote bestselling books and got a measure of revenge. Lay could do the same. And while his brigade of lawyers would obviously advise him to keep quiet, Lay could choose to ignore them. He doesn't have much to lose.
The grand jury that issued his indictment took more than two years to return a true bill. It's unlikely that it will be able to hit him with additional charges out of spite. Furthermore, the man President Bush used to call "Kenny Boy" is already a pariah in Houston, a town he used to own. He has become something of a recluse -- shuttling between his lavish condo in the heart of Houston's exclusive River Oaks neighborhood and a lavish office nearby. He'll never get another job in corporate America. As a political player, his future prospects are nonexistent. So why not provide an inside look at the way politics is really played in a place like Enron -- a company that, for years, was Bush's biggest career patron?
Lay could dish the dirt on several important topics: the Karl Rove-brokered push that resulted in Enron paying Christian conservative turned super-lobbyist Ralph Reed $300,000; Lay's dealings with secretary of state turned super-lobbyist James Baker; why Enron hired Ed Gillespie, the man who now heads the Republican National Committee; the reason for Lay's decision to allow the Bushes to use Enron's fleet of airplanes as their own; what happened in those meetings with Dick Cheney and his energy task force; and what really happened with the California energy crisis. "

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/07/08/kenneth_lay/index.html

[oly]

1. Book will be to late for 04.

And he'll be too busy with his defense too say much about Bush between now and November.

[jbfam4]

2. I am sure he could tell lots,

but I thought this was going to be an article about George Tenet.

They have had two and a half years to bring these charges.....good timeing for them, to do it shortly after Kerry picks Edwards. Also the press conference was well schedulted as Ellsburg and Edmonds were to be on TV. So they killed two birds with one stone!

[hansolsen]

3. lets sentence him to Abu Ghraib. Somebody get the leash. N/T