Time for Bush to Release Cheney's Secret Energy Task Force Member's List

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Now It's Time for Bush Campaign to Release Which Lobbyists Were Part of Cheney's Secret Energy Task Force, Says Kerry Campaign

April 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- One day after John Kerry released the most detailed list of lobbyists contacts of any candidate for President, Kerry Campaign Manager Mary Beth Cahill today called on the Bush campaign to release a full list of lobbyists who were part of Dick Cheney's secret energy task force: "Yesterday John Kerry released a list of lobbyist meetings in an effort to demonstrate his openness in government. This is the most detailed list of lobbyist contacts that any candidate for president has ever made public. Now it's time for the Bush campaign to finally come clean and tell the American people which oil company lobbyists were part of Dick Cheney's secret energy task force. Who were these lobbyists, and who did they represent? Have they influenced the President's decision not to 'jawbone' O.P.E.C., and his decision to do nothing to address the current gas crisis?" FACTS: White House Welcomed Oil & Gas Industry for Internal Energy Policy-Making

"Oil and gas industry leaders have been streaming into Washington for talks with Cheney, Lundquist, and congressional leaders. Executives from such industry giants as Chevron Corp., Exxon Mobil Corp., Shell Oil Co., as well as company and trade group lobbyists, held productive sessions with task force officials. The Bush Administration is shaping up as the most friendly one the oil industry has seen in many years. The Administration has been echoing industry's desire to increase oil and gas production in areas that have been off-limits, including on some federal lands. (National Journal, 4/7/01)

Bush's Secret Task Force Wouldn't Meet With Environmental Groups.

According to the Washington Post, "Environmental groups complain that Cheney won't meet with their leaders while the vice president sits down with a parade of industry officials. The nation's powerful environmental lobby is ready to pounce on any report that will shift policy from conservation toward increased energy production -- a central argument of the Bush report." (Washington Post, 4/16/01) Enron's Ken Lay Had Personal Access to Cheney, Energy Task Force.

"Lay also had access to the team writing the White House's energy report, which embraces several initiatives and issues dear to Enron. The report's recommendations include finding ways to give the federal government more power over electricity transmission networks, a longtime goal of the company that was spelled out in a memorandum Mr. Lay discussed during a 30-minute meeting earlier this spring with Mr. Cheney. Mr. Cheney's report includes much of what Mr. Lay advocated during their meeting, documents show. Both men deny discussing commission personnel issues during their talk," according to the New York Times. (New York Times, 5/25/01)

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=126-04222004

Me Book

[hang a left]

1. This issue is before the USSC

I don't think we will see any disclosures until after the ruling is published. I believe it is supposed to be released by June? Anyway, it is one of a few rulings expected that I am anxiously waiting for.

[jackstraw45]

2. Scalia and Thomas are already in the bag for Cheney

My faith in SCOTUS is completely lost.

[hang a left]

4. We will surely know by summer.

There are two actually three rulings I am waiting for. The second and third ones are the legality of American citizens being held as "enemy combatants" and the other is the legality of Guantanamo. These three rulings will determine in my mind if all is lost in this country.

[thebaghwan]

6. Me too, and Scalia's refusal to recuse himself after the duck hunt with

Cheney is absolutely insulting. Clarence Thomas is the biggest waste of space I can think of. The man is Scalia's shadow and seemingly incapable of any independent thought whatsoever.

[Brotherjohn]

3. I used to think Ken Lay on the list was the damaging thing they were....

... trying to hide.

Now I'm starting to wonder whether it was Prince Bandar or even, perhaps, a Bin Laden (Osama's brother, old business associate of Bush).

[BOSSHOG]

5. The Energy Task force ordered bush to

secure the oil fields in iraq and nail down no bid contracts for halliburton (MISSION ACCOMPLISHED). Bush needed a trigger mechanism. 9-11 was just a bigger bang than the neocons expected. And now, the mess in iraq is just another example of piss poor planning by these conservative criminals. It was all supposed to be so easy.

Have a ball lurkers, prove me wrong. Get fat ass lying cheney to release the whole report. You all will be so proud of your unpatriotic, american hating, chickenhawk cowardly lives.