ENRON/Ken Lay plot: Sweetheart fake settlement (donuts, not $9 billion). Recall drive starts on Gray Davis, who demanded $ be returned. Schwarzenegger becomes Governator & Lay Peninsula Hotel plan goes into effect; Calif. got virtually nothing back.

Cuban Project/Operation Mongoose named for CIA covert operations initiated by Pres. John F. Kennedy 11/30/61, authorized aggressive covert assault on Communist Cuba, led by Air Force General Edward Lansdale after failed Bay of Pigs invasion

Joan Mellen: ?my favorite Jim Garrison line, people would ask ?How did you think you could prosecute someone for conspiracy to murder the President in Louisiana?? Garrison said, ?guess I thought I was living in the country I was born in?.

9/15/01 Wolfowitz argues now perfect time to move against Iraq. Powell argues int’l coalition would only come together for attack on Al Qaeda & Taliban in Afghanistan ..Council votes with Powell. Rumsfeld abstains. Bush: Iraq comes later.