# Since 9-11: Exposing CEOs
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-9-11-exposing-ceos/118439
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [July 11, 2002, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-9-11-exposing-ceos/118439 "2002-07-11T16:06:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2002, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-9-11-exposing-ceos/118439/1 "2002-07-11T16:06:47Z")
Maybe this is far-fetched, but…
Could there be a connection between 9-11 and the CEOs coming clean? Could it be that the loss of large accounting firms’ offices in the Twin Towers (and the secrets they’ve held) possibly removed a shroud of paperwork and red tape once serving as a smokescreen protecting CEOs from expsoure?
In other words, could it be that Enron and Worldcom were forced to come clean? And, other dominoes are still waiting to fall?
- Jinx
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### Author:  [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2002, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-9-11-exposing-ceos/118439/2 "2002-07-11T16:14:24Z")
I’ve yet to see anything connecting the WTC sneak attack with Enron’s denouement. Enron really just had time run out, which is inevitable when you build a bubble into your books.
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### Author:  [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2002, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-9-11-exposing-ceos/118439/3 "2002-07-11T17:07:54Z")
I am not inclined to look to 9/11 as a motivator/impetus for the accounting scandals. I see the scandals as more of a “second wave” hangover from the Booming 90’s. In other words, the first hangover was the explosion of [dot.com](http://dot.com) speculation. Now, 18 months or so later, after that dust has started to settle, we are confronted with the actions that the [non-dot.com](http://non-dot.com) companies were taking _in order to keep up_ with the dot.coms’ (what we know know to be) completely unrealistic performance. Once the dot.coms collapsed, the non-dot.coms were left with their own houses of cards. It was only a matter of time, which, of course is true with any speculative stock market buildup we have experienced in our history…
9/11 simply happened at a time when this business/stock market cycle was playing itself out. The absolute tragedy of the attacks has exacerbated reactions to the scandals, but, IMHO, that is about it.
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### Author:  [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2002, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-9-11-exposing-ceos/118439/4 "2002-07-11T21:32:23Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Jinx \*
> \*\*Maybe this is far-fetched, but…
>
> Could there be a connection between 9-11 and the CEOs coming clean? Could it be that the loss of large accounting firms’ offices in the Twin Towers (and the secrets they’ve held) possibly removed a shroud of paperwork and red tape once serving as a smokescreen protecting CEOs from expsoure?
>
> In other words, could it be that Enron and Worldcom were forced to come clean? And, other dominoes are still waiting to fall?
>
> - Jinx \*\*
Do you have any evidence that Enron/WorldCom’s accountants worked in the World Trade Centre?
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2002, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-9-11-exposing-ceos/118439/5 "2002-07-12T03:54:34Z")
If you want loopy connections, talk to James Burke. The conditions that would eventually crush Enron and WorldCom were in place long before Sept. 11. **WordMan’s** dotcom connection sounds valid and more major collapses will follow over the next several years.
If there _is_ a Sept. 11 tie-in, it may take form in the Democratic campaign of 2004 which will hammer Bush for getting into bed with big business and not anticipating the attacks.