Well, here's the most ridiculous pair of sentences you'll read this week:
As part of the deal under negotiation, Chevron, which now owns Texaco, is not expected to admit to violating the U.N. sanctions. But Chevron is expected to acknowledge that it should have been aware that illegal kickbacks were being paid to Iraq on the oil, the investigators said.
If, bundled with the acknowledgment that it "should have been aware of illegal kickbacks," Chevron owns to the fact that it was in possession of all the relevant data pertaining to those kickbacks, how is this any different than violating U.N. sanctions? The answer is, it's isn't: a major oil company is using slithery legalisms to exculpate itself from one of the worst and most costly scandals to ever engulf the U.N.
And Condoleeza Rice, now tasked with reinjecting new doses of "realism" into American foreign policy, was
a member of Chevron’s board and led its public policy committee, which oversaw areas of potential political concerns for the company.
So the current secretary of state has some explaining to do before a Senate subcommittee.