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Whitehouse papers enron Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020603/ap_on_bi_ge/enron_investigation_5 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020603/ap_on_bi_ge/enron_investigation_5 White House Submits Enron Papers Mon Jun 3, 6:59 PM ET By MARCY GORDON, AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Responding to subpoenas, the White House gave a Senate panel access Monday to more than 2,100 pages of documents related to contacts with Enron officials. Slideshows AP Photo Enron Audio/Video Analyst: P&G lawsuit against Coca-Cola means little in long run - (ON24) The White House's top lawyer and the office of Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) said it was a partial response to the twin subpoenas issued May 22 by the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee (news - web sites). The offices of President Bush (news - web sites) and Cheney said they were still receiving documents from employees. No instance has been found so far of Enron officials asking anyone in the White House for help before the company's bankruptcy last December, presidential counsel Alberto Gonzales said. The documents reviewed so far also show that White House officials' actions were "responsible and consistent with the appropriate performance of their official duties," he said in a letter to Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., the committee's chairman. Houston-based Enron has been one of Bush's biggest campaign contributors. Gonzales said the documents would not be turned over to the committee until an agreement is reached with the panel on "procedures to safeguard the security and confidentiality of these documents." Rather, the documents — 1,745 pages from Bush's office and 432 documents from Cheney's — are being made available at the White House for inspection and review by the committee staff. White House officials said the documents include sensitive information such as Social Security (news - web sites) numbers, e-mail addresses of government officials, communications among government employees regarding policy and foreign relations, and confidential business information. At the request of the panel's senior Republican, Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee, the committee extended by 24 hours the noon Monday deadline for turning over the documents. "The committee is trying to work with the White House to provide all appropriate assurances that the documents it subpoenaed will be maintained in a secure manner, while still allowing the committee to conduct its important oversight work," Lieberman said in a statement. "I hope the White House will be in compliance by Tuesday noon." So far, no documents are being withheld on grounds of executive privilege, Gonzales told Lieberman. The panel has been seeking the information from the White House since late March as part of its Enron investigation. The General Accounting Office (news - web sites), Congress' investigative arm, sued Cheney in February to force release of the names of figures from Enron and other oil companies who met last year with the vice president's energy task force. Hours after the Democratic-controlled Senate committee voted on party lines to issue the subpoenas, the White House provided summaries of dozens of contacts between Enron executives and Bush administration officials, including Cheney. The Bush administration disclosed in January that then-Enron chairman Kenneth Lay made a series of telephone calls to members of the Bush Cabinet, including Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Commerce Secretary Don Evans, as the company sank toward collapse last fall. The material being sought by the Senate committee goes back to January 1992, also covering the Clinton administration. In a May 24 memo, Gonzales told White House staff to turn over all official documents, including e-mails, related to: _Communications between anyone working for or representing Enron and any executive office employee from Jan. 1, 1992, through Dec. 2, 2001. _Communications regarding Enron between any executive office employee and any employee of any federal department or agency during the same period. ___ On the Net: Senate Governmental Affairs Committee: http://www.senate.gov/(tilde)gov_affairs/

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