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...DEFENDING HER AGENCY AGAINST G.O.P. budget cutters, Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary has been an effective warrior. Defending her reputation, however, is becoming problematic. Her congressional critics, who plan to hold another round of hearings next month, may well discover new items to view with alarm. An investigation by the General Accounting Office has found that $255,000 worth of the expenses that O'Leary's delegations billed for trips to India and South Africa have no receipts or records to justify how the money was spent. Energy officials are searching for the records and tightening up accounting procedures. Critics...
...HAZEL O'LEARY Energy Secretary fuels controversy by hiring firm to rate reporters...
...HAZEL'S "ENEMIES LIST...
...political blunder sure to provoke nostalgia for the Nixon Administration: the Wall Street Journal reported that Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary hired a Washington firm to investigate reporters and news organizations in an effort to determine the sources of negative stories about the department. Though O'Leary got a stern rebuke from the White House, it decided she could stay at her post...
...Hazel O'Leary really behind the Energy Department's embarrassing decision to use an outside firm to size up journalists? The DOE secretary, who testified before two House subcommittees Friday, said she "knew little about the details of the system that was planned." O'Leary also insisted that the reports from Carma International, which was paid more than $43,000 in public money to rate press coverage of the Department, were not used to compile an "enemies list" or reward favorable coverage. At the same time, House staffers made public several internal memos that suggested DOE public relations staffers took...