The American Prospect's Tapped notes a scandalous story but seems either oblivious or deceitful about its implications :

THE STORY THAT KEEPS ON GIVING. The Washington Post's James Grimaldi has put together a must-read story on how Enron operated in Washington to get $ 200 million in federal support for a 400 mile pipeline from Bolivia to Brazil through a pristine tropical forest. Turns out the Overseas Private Investment Corp. (OPIC), which made the decision to support the pipeline, is actually charged with protecting the kind of forest that has now been all but destroyed.

They're absolutely right that the story should be read by everyone who cares about how bureaucracies become corrupted by the very industries they're supposed to oversee and for its heartwarming depiction of evnironmentalists being bought off by Enron. What's curious though is that both Tapped and Mr. Grimaldi present this episode as having taken place in some weird netherworld completely disembodied from the political universe. You'd think it would be worthwhile pointing out that this little caper occurred during the Clinton Administration. Surely if the Bush Administration were implicated that would have been a prominent feature of their coverage, with all the attendant nonsense about how Enron's unique relationship with George W. Bush game them unprecedented access to the administration and a shocking influence over decision-making. Of course, that whole storyline, central to the Left's coverage of the Enron mess, falls apart once you realize they had an identical relationship with the Clinton administration, so it's understandable these organs of the Left "omitted" or downplayed the unfortunate fact. Posted by Orrin Judd at June 13, 2002 11:22 AM