The Center for Public Integrity

July 19, 2002 — In his July 8, 2002, press conference, President George W. Bush told reporters "to look back on the directors' minutes" for details of his knowledge of and involvement in the financial reporting of Harken Energy Corporation that was the subject of a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation in the early 1990s.

July 12, 2002 — Since posting the last batch of documents yesterday, we received requests for more Harken-related documents. Today, we are posting Harken Energy Corporation's 1989 Form 10K, which includes information on the Aloha transaction and the loans George W. Bush received from the company, and the company's quarterly reports from the period ending June 30, 1990 (during which time Bush sold more than 212,000 shares of Harken stock) and the following quarter, which ended September 30, 1990 (when Harken declared its $23.2 million loss).

July 11, 2002 — The Center for Public Integrity, as a public service, is posting a second round of the documents that we obtained from the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Freedom of Information Act.

July 3, 2002 — Because of a column by Paul Krugman that ran in The New York Times and a follow-up Washington Post story, there has been renewed interest in two reports the Center published concerning George W. Bush's days as a director of Harken Energy. We published the first on October 2, 2000 and the second on April 4, 2001.