Grilling

The grilling of Arthur Andersen employees at a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing last Thursday provided more drama than new facts. It was a lot like the courtroom scene in the movie A Few Good Men. Instead of Tom Cruise asking Jack Nicholson “Did you order a Code Red?” subcommittee Chairman Jim Greenwood (R-PA) barked at David Duncan, the former Arthur Andersen partner in charge of Enron auditing, “Did you give an order to destroy [the Enron] documents?”