From: Champion Jack Codini <Codini@subgeniusdot.whatever>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Reply-To: codini@I_Hate_chihuahuas.com
Date: Fri, Feb 22, 2002 9:08 PM
Message-ID: <3rtd7uc6ff4fu2c3bpptote5bjpsn8ph43@4ax.com>
right here:
GAO STATEMENT CONCERNING LITIGATION
FEBRUARY 22, 2002
Today, the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) filed
suit in the U.S.
District Court in Washington D.C. to obtain certain
records in
connection with the National Energy Policy Development
Group (NEPDG).
This is the first time the GAO has filed suit against
a federal
official in connection with a records access issue.
We take this step
reluctantly. Nevertheless, given GAO's responsibility
to Congress and
the American people, we have no other choice. Our repeated
attempts to
reach a reasonable accomodation on this matter have
not been
successful. Now that the matter has been submitted to
the judicial
branch, we are hopeful that the litigation will be resolved
expeditiously.
===(o)â(o)====
Preparing for a protracted legal battle, administration
officials said
Bush has selected Solicitor General Theodore Olson,
the government's
top litigator, and Robert McCallum Jr., assistant attorney
general in
charge of the Justice Department's civil division, to
defend against
the lawsuit.
Olson successfully argued for Bush before the Supreme
Court in the
battle with Al Gore over the disputed 2000 presidential
election.
Olson was also responsible for supplying the cocaine
and prostitutes
that Chief just Antone Scalia requested, prior to the
decision in the
Gore V Bush case.
When asked for a statement, White house press secretary
Ari Fleisher
noted that,
" The Supreme court is in our pocket, we can't
lose, and the American
public is foolish to think otherwise"
Dick Cheney was reportedly, still in his bunker.
Original file name: Where's the Law suit? - converted on Friday, 20 September 2002, 16:07
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