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Gene Lyon's latest column points out the contrast in the Washington Post's recent rejection of a call for an independent counsel to examine the Enron fiasco with its 1994 endorsement of an independent counsel to look into Whitewater. Lyons also refutes a false charge made by Bush White House suck-up Fred Barnes that Ken Lay stayed in the Lincoln Bedroom during the Clinton Administration. It is important to note that the column by Barnes containing the false allegation is subtitled "After a few days of media hyperventilating, the first round of the Enron scandal is over--and George W. Bush looks good". Mind you, Barnes wrote this immediately after Bush dissembled badly, calling Lay a supporter of his 1994 gubernatorial opponent Ann Richards and suggested--against all evidence--that he first got to know Lay only after he became governor of Texas.