Trial of the True Believers

By Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet. Posted February 7, 2006.

The mindset that led Enron to defraud millions of people is the same that created the Bush administration's legal quagmires.

As the trial of Enron's Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay enters its second week, journalists are again pointing to the connections between the Bush family and administration and the former corporate Goliath. It's certainly not difficult to unearth the laundry list of ties between Bush's tight-knit Republican circle and the company that cheated Americans out of over $1 billion in retirement funds and some 4,500 jobs.