Achtung Bubba
Refugee
NROnline has a quite informative article detailing the fact that the GAO, who is now suing the Bush Administration, never even threatened a suit against the Clinton Administration - even though it had PLENTY of reasons to do so.
There's a critical and so far unanswered question about the General Accounting Office's decision to sue Vice President Dick Cheney for information about outsiders who were consulted by Cheney's energy task force: Why has it come to this?
Cheney's position seems clear enough. The vice president, who has long been determined to preserve executive-branch privileges, appears to believe strongly that the GAO simply does not have the authority to compel him to hand over the information. But what about the other side? Why has the GAO ? which has never before filed suit to force a top federal official to hand over information ? decided to go nuclear?
GAO officials, including Comptroller General David Walker, say they simply want to uphold the office's ability to demand access to executive-branch records in the future. But the GAO's position seems baffling in light of its behavior during its last major investigation of the White House.
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There's a critical and so far unanswered question about the General Accounting Office's decision to sue Vice President Dick Cheney for information about outsiders who were consulted by Cheney's energy task force: Why has it come to this?
Cheney's position seems clear enough. The vice president, who has long been determined to preserve executive-branch privileges, appears to believe strongly that the GAO simply does not have the authority to compel him to hand over the information. But what about the other side? Why has the GAO ? which has never before filed suit to force a top federal official to hand over information ? decided to go nuclear?
GAO officials, including Comptroller General David Walker, say they simply want to uphold the office's ability to demand access to executive-branch records in the future. But the GAO's position seems baffling in light of its behavior during its last major investigation of the White House.
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