Bush 'not concerned' in Cheney flap

WASHINGTON -- President Bush said Friday he is "not concerned at all" that the Energy Department is being forced to release some documents related to Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force -- work that the White House is fighting in court to keep secret.

In two cases Thursday, judges thwarted the administration's attempts to avoid identifying business executives who met with Cheney's group.

Bush was asked on a trip to Iowa if he had any concern that records the Energy Department will have to reveal -- in response to a private lawsuit -- will raise doubts about the administration's energy policies.

"I hope the Energy Department gets the documents out there as quickly as they possibly can," he said.

Bush repeated his opposition to the Congress' investigative arm trying to pry into "the private conversations the president or the vice president has."