Just like you're trying to do with Enron, so no problem. Right, Bernie?
The cooperation in the vandalism probe also contrasts sharply with the steadfast White House resistance to a GAO demand for records from Vice President Cheney's energy policy task force, critics said. They include details of a meeting between Cheney and disgraced ex-Enron chief Kenneth Lay and at least five other task force meetings with company officials.
"It's clearly a double standard," said Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), who asked the GAO last year to obtain the Cheney records.
Right, Nostrils, very clearly a double standard. On the one hand the GAO leaks bitches about having to "work too hard" in investigating malicious vandalism associated with a Presidential transition (in an attempt to undermine said investigation?). On the other hand they are working overtime, and beyond their authority, to undermine the President's comprehensive and forward looking energy policy by attempting, in blatant violation of the Constitution's seperation of powers, and without the merest hint of wrong doing by Cheney or anyone in the administration, to expose the process of policy formation to gratuitous and hostile scrutiny. At the same time the party that essentially controls the GAO refuses to respond to said energy policy substantively, propose and alternative, or put it to a vote in the Senate.
Definitely an ugly and devious double standard.