Moore: ‘Helping your fellow man’

Filmmaker Michael Moore has asked the Bush administration to call off an investigation of his trip to Cuba to get treatment for ailing Sept. 11 rescue workers for a segment in his upcoming health-care expose, “Sicko.”

Moore, who made the hit documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11,” assailing President Bush’s handling of Sept. 11, said in a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. on Friday that the White House may have opened the investigation for political reasons.

“I understand why the Bush administration is coming after me -- I have tried to help the very people they refuse to help,” Moore said in the letter, which he posted on the liberal website Daily Kos, “but until George W. Bush outlaws helping your fellow man, I have broken no laws and I have nothing to hide.”

Treasury officials in Washington said Friday that they would have no comment on the contents of Moore’s letter, citing a policy against discussing specific investigations being conducted by the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, the agency that enforces the trade embargo against Cuba.