Judge orders release of energy documents (Yeah!)

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WASHINGTON - A federal judge told the government to release more documents related to the White House task force led by Vice President Dick Cheney that met behind closed doors to develop a national energy policy.

Judicial Watch, a government watchdog group, and the Sierra Club, an environmental group, want the records as part of an inquiry into whether energy executives and lobbyists helped draft a policy friendly to their industries early in President Bush’s first year in office. The administration maintains that only government employees were members of the task force, which disbanded in 2001.

Judicial Watch has alleged that former Enron Chairman Ken Lay and lobbyists Mark Racicot, Haley Barbour and Thomas Kuhn may have participated.

The order Wednesday from U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman covers material that the Energy and Interior departments and other federal agencies had refused to produce since a similar federal court ruling two years ago.





http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4647540/

[Gato Moteado]

1. i hope this ain't an april fool's joke

nt

[Moderator]

2. Please discuss here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x457735

[xultar]

3. OR the docs will look like a paper snowflake with all the info cut out, nt