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...ever-expanding investigations and government probes into last fall’s surprise collapse of energy giant Enron Corp. has highlighted the role played by one member of Harvard’s Corporation in the management of the company...
...Cheney wasn't budging before the suit was announced and he's not budging now. "The fact is, Enron didn't get any special deals," Cheney told ABC's "This Week." "Enron has been treated appropriately by this administration...
...begs to differ, demanding details about the Vice President's meetings with Enron brass. The big question: Did Cheney respond to Enron requests for help by changing U.S. energy policy? And if so, was there anything wrong with that? If Cheney has his way, we may never know - White House officials are talking executive privilege and the Vice President isn't talking at all. Is this a case the White House can win? Or is the Bush administration going to get a very public, very damaging slap on the wrist...
...private conversations, the Court, in its only decision on executive privilege, ruled that while the President must maintain a certain degree of privilege, the specifics and criminal nature of the Watergate case rendered that privilege secondary to the public's right to know. On the other hand, while Enron is under criminal investigation, Cheney himself is not - a key distinction between this standoff and the Watergate scenario, in which members of the executive branch were directly linked to criminal charges...
...Some argue there's nothing wrong with the Cheney-Enron interactions, even if the worst-case scenario bears out. This argument is, essentially, so what if Enron lobbied Cheney to change the wording in the administration's energy policy in a way that helps Enron? That's what lobbyists are for, right? "That's what politics are all about," says Steve Milner, managing partner for Squar Milner, a CPA and financial advisory firm in Newport Beach. "The problem is when there's a quid pro quo: I give you money in direct exchange for what I want." Proving that...