Isn't it GREAT that while we have to follow laws, the oil executives are immune from the same laws?

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Hours after pleading guilty in Washington to federal charges that he lied to congressional investigators in 2005 about his knowledge of performance-enhancing drug use in baseball, former Baltimore Orioles shortstop Miguel Tejada made a tearful apology in Houston -- without saying what he was apologizing for.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry for what just happened," Tejada, who now plays for the Houston Astros, said at the end of a brief news conference that ended without him or his lawyer taking questions.

Tejada, 34, pleaded guilty to making a false representation, a charge that carries a sentence of up to year in prison. However, federal sentence guidelines call for probation to six months. U.S. Magistrate Judge Alan Kay released Tejada on his personal recognizance and set a March 26 sentencing hearing.

During a 45-minute hearing in U.S. District Court in Washington, Tejada, the 2002 American League most valuable player, admitted that he lied to congressional staffers during a 2005 interview in a Baltimore hotel room that focused on the prevalence of steroids in the game, as part of a House committee's investigation into former Orioles teammate Rafael Palmeiro.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/11/AR2009021101884.html?hpid=moreheadlines

A White House document shows that executives from big oil companies met with Vice President Cheney's energy task force in 2001 -- something long suspected by environmentalists but denied as recently as last week by industry officials testifying before Congress.

The document, obtained this week by The Washington Post, shows that officials from Exxon Mobil Corp., Conoco (before its merger with Phillips), Shell Oil Co. and BP America Inc. met in the White House complex with the Cheney aides who were developing a national energy policy, parts of which became law and parts of which are still being debated.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/15/AR2005111501842.html

Tejada nor the oil executives were sworn in, both lied, yet only one is in trouble. Why is that? I think this is a question that Congress must answer.

[ixion]

1. Politicians and corporate executives are all above the law in our wretched

corporate theocracy.

Some Freedom! :eyes:

[Enthusiast]

2. You have it right.

Does Obama have access to the suppressed information about the secret energy meetings? If so he should leak it to the press.

[Serial Mom]

3. More than oil execs have lied to congress....

how about Libby, Rove, Alberto, Rummy, etc. etc, along with investment banking CEOs, etc. etc.

You are right - this needs to be answered by Congress!