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* When a Treasury Department official was asked why they had granted the exception, they had no comment except that the State Department supported it. The Clinton administration State Department acknowledged having talks with Occidental prior to the exception. (43)

* The State Department said that Congress did not intend to impose sweeping economic sanctions against Sudan when they wrote and passed the law. (43)

* The law states that unless the Secretary of Treasury makes an exception, anyone who knowingly "engages in a financial transaction" with a government that is a supporter of international terrorism, "shall be fined under this title, imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or both." (46)

* After a newspaper article appeared in the Washington Post revealing that the Clinton administration was giving military support to three African nations that were helping people who were resisting the government in Sudan, Sudan barred Occidental from the consortium. (43)

* A year after Sudan barred Occidental from the oil deal, Bill Clinton issued an executive order prohibiting financial dealings with Sudan. In the executive order, Clinton called Sudan an "extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States," and declared "a national emergency to deal with that threat." Less than a year earlier, the Clinton State Department stated that there was nothing improper in allowing the oil deal between Occidental and Sudan. (43)(47)(48)

* Occidental hired Al Gore's father at a salary of $500,000 a year after he was defeated for reelection in 1970. (49)

* In 1972, Occidental bought a farm in Tennessee for $160,000. A year later, Occidental sold the farm to Al Gore's father for the same price they bought it for, and gave Gore's father an initial payment of $20,000 for the rights to mine minerals on the land. On the same day that he bought the land, Gore's father sold it to Al Gore for $140,000. From that point up until 1985, Occidental paid Al Gore $20,000 a year for the rights to mine minerals on this land. Occidental never did any mining there. These payments added up to about $200,000. (50)(45c)(51)

* As of 1998, Al Gore is the executor of his father's estate, which contains more than $250,000 in Occidental stock. (52)

* Between 1993 and March of 2000, Occidental's PAC has given over $400,000 to Democrats and over $400,000 to Republicans. (53)

* Occidental's CEO(Ray Irani), CFO(Stephen Chazen), and Executive VP/Counsel(Donald de Brier) made political donations to Republicans and Democrats who opposed each other for the same office. (54)

* In February of 2000, the Clinton administration applied sanctions on a consortium of companies involved in the Sudanese oil deal. This prohibited the consortium from doing business in the United States, but still allowed the individual companies who comprise the consortium to conduct business in the United States. (55)

* As of June 2000, the U.S. investment firm Goldman Sachs is working on an initial public offering for a subsidiary of the company China National Petroleum. This subsidiary owns 40% of the oil consortium doing business in Sudan. (56)

* As of June of 2000, Jon Corzine is the Democrat Party's nominee to be a United States Senator for New Jersey. He owns more than $50,000,000 worth of stock in Goldman Sachs. (56)

* As of October of 1999, a Canadian oil company by the name of Talisman Energy is a 25% partner in the consortium. (29)

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