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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...
...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...
...including one as late as October, when Enron was going down the tubes, although those officials say they never discussed its fortunes. But the Administration continues to fight General Accounting Office efforts to find out who else Cheney talked to when he was developing his energy plan. A GAO lawyer told TIME the agency is hiring attorneys "with Supreme Court experience" in the event that it proceeds with a federal lawsuit to force Cheney to divulge the material...
...written Cheney to ask whether his panel was "influenced by unreliable data or opinions provided by Enron." Meanwhile, the General Accounting Office, a nonpartisan investigative arm of Congress, is pressing its long-standing (and so far denied) request for task-force records. Comptroller General David Walker, who runs the GAO, tells TIME that pending energy legislation and congressional inquiries into Enron make it imperative that Cheney produce the material. If Cheney refuses to budge, Walker says, the GAO may take the issue to court...
...Gao Zhan During a visit home, the Chinese-born academic, now a researcher at American University in Washington, D.C., was arrested as a spy and detained for nearly six months before China convicted and expelled her. The scholar, whose son and husband are American citizens, was one of several academics with U.S. ties arrested this year. But she is vowing to defy Chinese threats to keep silent and has spoken openly about her experience. The bespectacled sociologist's controversial specialty? Gender studies...