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...General Accounting Office (GAO), Congress’ investigative arm, has requested that Cheney release information that would allow the GAO to begin mapping out the relationship between members of the energy industry and the administration. The GAO is asking for lists of the individuals present at each meeting of Bush’s energy task force and, in addition, lists of the people with whom each task force member met, along with the date, subject and location of those meetings. With this information, the GAO will be able to scrutinize in greater detail the administration’s involvement with...
...determination to obtain those lists, even if it must sue the White House and the Vice President. Congress is constitutionally responsible for overseeing the executive’s activities, and a collapse of the magnitude of Enron’s is a clear justification for a GAO investigation...
Vice President Dick Cheney is the latest victim of the widening Enron sinkhole; his defiant refusal to reveal the names of people he met with while planning the administration's energy policy has the General Accounting Office in a litigious mood. Wednesday GAO Comptroller David Walker announced his office was suing the White House for access to energy task force documents...
...GAO 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...
...General Accounting Office, which is as close as Congress comes to having an independent auditor, announced that it would file a lawsuit against the White House this week if Cheney did not fork over the details of his energy task force's private meetings with Enron officials. The GAO had postponed the suit after Sept. 11, but when it became clear Cheney had no intention of complying with its request, or even negotiating, the tiny agency decided to fight...