Reply #2: this article is worth looking at - remember the WH wasn't able to give

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good info. on Enron personnel coming and going. Other info. in this article has the alarm bells going off as well..

http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/9-18-02/discussion.cgi.35.shtml

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National-security concerns also have been raised concerning the ownership of
the lead contractor on the system, a company called Ultrak Inc. After
Ultrak's stock price tanked to around $1 last year, controlling interest in
the Lewisville, Texas, company was acquired by Niklaus Zenger, a resident of
Switzerland. Zenger, now Ultrak's new chief executive officer (CEO), also
has ties to the Russian government, leading some security experts to worry
about what now is a foreign-owned company having gained access to highly
sensitive data concerning every aspect of who goes in and out of the White
House and when.

Critics of the system spoke to Insight with reluctance. All have tremendous
respect for the Secret Service and the courageous agents who put their lives
on the line to protect the president and the country. But, as one critic put
it, "The new access-control system potentially poses, at best, embarrassment
and, at worst, a threat to those whom it is intended to help protect: the
president, vice president, government employees and Secret Service officers
who are charged with the physical protection of the White House complex and
its occupants."

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Another source says the system also was found to be working improperly
earlier this year when it had difficulty retrieving the dates and times of
arrivals and departures of Enron officials visiting the White House. These
records were needed for investigations of the Enron scandal.

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Filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission confirm that Zenger is a
resident of Switzerland, but press reports show he has close ties with
Russia. According to the Financial Times, Zenger worked as a consultant for
the state-owned Tass news agency. Oddly, the article didn't specify whether
he worked there before or after the fall of the Soviet Union. But the
British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) reported that, in 1992, Zenger led a
delegation touring the nuclear facilities of Arzamas-16, set up under the
Soviet Union as its nuclear-weapons command center. Zenger was shown "the
technology of making parts using powder and highly durable materials,
various ways of using the energy of a directed explosion for dividing bulky
metal structures," according to the BBC translation of a Tass report.
According to the Financial Times, Zenger also has worked as a consultant to
the United Nations and is "a lawyer who is fluent is six languages."