GAO's, Cheney's attorneys go to court Agency wants to force VP to hand over energy panel records 09/28/2002 The New York Times WASHINGTON - Attorneys for the General Accounting Office and Vice President Dick Cheney clashed Friday before a federal judge over whether the executive branch's right to keep records confidential trumps the legislative branch's right to investigate how public money is spent. For the first time in the congressional agency's 81-year history, the comptroller general went to federal court Friday to ask a judge to order a member of the executive branch to turn over records to Congress....