GAO to Cheney: ‘You’re Lying”. General Accounting Office chief David Walker is refraining from filing suit yet (to force Cheney to divulge what outsiders he consulted for his energy taks force)

to give the White House time to reconsider some of its statements about the case.

So far, there’s no evidence the White House is interested in doing so. And while Walker says he wants to reach an agreement, he is also ratcheting up the rhetoric in the already-tense case. In an interview with National Review Online, Walker in essence accused Cheney of lying about the GAO’s demands. “There have been material misrepresentations of facts coming out of the White House in recent weeks,” he says. In particular, Walker points to a statement Cheney made in a television interview last Sunday. “They’ve demanded of me that I give Henry Waxman a listing of everybody I meet with,” Cheney told Fox News, “of everything that was discussed, any advice that was received, notes and minutes of those meetings.”

“That was a very critical and highly material misrepresentation,” Walker says. “If we were asking for that, I’d understand where they are coming from. But we are not.” National Review Online