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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (3853)	6/27/2001 10:00:31 PM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 93284

Cheney Withholds List of Those Who Spoke to Energy Panel "If the dispute continues, the accounting office could bring a civil action against the administration." June 26, 2001 By JOSEPH KAHN From The New York Times WASHINGTON, June 25 — Vice President Dick Cheney has declined to identify the people who met privately with his energy task force, raising tensions with Congressional investigators who have repeatedly requested the information. The General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of Congress, sent Mr. Cheney's office a letter late last week complaining that a month had passed since it first submitted an inquiry about the workings of the task force. The letter said the vice president had a legal obligation to provide the information immediately. Mr. Cheney's office said the letter was sent one day after it submitted 77 pages of documents to the accounting office. "Our correspondence crossed in the mail," said Juleanna Glover Weiss, a spokeswoman for Mr. Cheney. But Ms. Weiss said the vice president had not provided the names of people, including industry executives, who may have influenced the formation of the Bush administration's energy policy, which was released last month. "Our counsel and the G.A.O. will continue to talk about this," Ms. Weiss said. The energy task force Mr. Cheney headed spent several months compiling a lengthy energy strategy that contained about 150 recommendations for administrative and legislative actions to address what it termed an energy crisis. Administration officials have said that they met with a wide variety of people concerned about energy issues, including executives of oil, natural gas, electricity, nuclear power and energy infrastructure companies. They have declined to provide a list of people who had access to the task force. Some Democrats have asserted that leading Republican donors had special access to the task force and that the energy policy is skewed toward measures favored by major corporations. Two Democratic representatives, Henry A. Waxman of California and John D. Dingell of Michigan, asked the accounting office to report on the officials who served on the task force, what information was collected by the panel, whom they met with and how much the task force spent. The White House provided the G.A.O. with the financial records of the task force. But administration officials have told the investigative body that they are not compelled to provide the names of outsiders who met with the task force. The accounting office's general counsel, Anthony H. Gamboa, said in a letter to Mr. Cheney's office last week that the investigative body is entitled to more information. The letter warned that if the White House does not provide the full range of information the G.A.O. is seeking, it may issue a "demand letter," a more formal request. Under the law, the White House would have 20 days to respond. If the dispute continues, the accounting office could bring a civil action against the administration. nytimes.com

To: jttmab who wrote (3853)	6/27/2001 10:06:11 PM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 93284

Did you read Maureen Dowd's column, under "Liberties?" You must. She talks about the rout between Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas. Here's an excerpt: "I had stumbled onto something big," Mr. Brock writes, "a symbiotic relationship that would help create a highly profitable right-wing Big Lie Machine that flourished in book publishing, on talk radio, and on the Internet throughout the 90's." Above excerpt from: June 27, 2001 LIBERTIES Truth, Sex, Lies and Videotape By MAUREEN DOWD nytimes.com ……………………………..************…………………………… Maureen Dowd says David Brock was a right-wing hit man who claims he LIED**about Anita Hill and he lied to help the Bushies send Clarence Thomas to The Supreme Court. Click on the url above, register and read the article. Mephisto