If you remember, Henry Kissinger ran away from the September 11 commission, with his consulting firm tucked between his legs, after the Senate demanded he reveal his client list. In the case of Jim Baker, who will be acting as a de facto U.S. Treasury secretary for international affairs, our elected Congress will have no chance to ask him who is paying his firm … nor even require him to get off conflicting payrolls.

GPalast: Well that and in my book, which you'll find nowhere in America, is that Daddy Bush went work for the company Khashoggi founded for gold mining in Canada after he left office. Which means Richard Perle had to resign from the Defense Advisory Board because of his relationship with Khashoggi, what about Poppy Bush? Does he have to resign as First Daddy?

With jobs disappearing at a staggering rate, the Bureau of Labor Statistics ended its Mass Layoff Tracking Study on Christmas Eve of 2002, thanks to this administration. And although Congressional Democrats managed to get funding for the study restored in February of 2003, the loss of 614,167 jobs in those two months was unannounced.