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What's the Problem? Cheney still won't Reveal his Energy Planning Expenditures

Cheney consulted with the likes of Ken Lay while defining this country's energy policy that sent California into bankruptcy and blackouts due to the collusion of energy companies known to be major donors to the Republican Party and especially the Bush/Cheney Campaign.

Source: TheTip, 2003-09-16

Candidate: Dick Cheney


Cheney was ordered to reveal the details of his planning, and continues to appeal, now to the same supreme court that handed Bush the election.

In papers filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia, Cheney's Justice Department lawyers said they intend to file a petition with the Supreme Court no later than Sept. 30.

Last week, the appeals court refused to reconsider its previous ruling against Cheney, leaving him with the option of appealing to the Supreme Court or complying with a lower court order to release information about his task force's contacts with the energy industry while drafting policy in 2001.

Arguing that the case raised important constitutional questions, Cheney's lawyers asked the appeals court to "stay" its mandate so that Cheney would have the opportunity to present his case to the Supreme Court.

"Judicial power cannot extend to compelling a vice president to disclose to private persons the details of the process by which a president obtains information and advice from the vice president ..." the lawyers said.

One of the groups suing for the information accused the administration of delaying tactics.

"At some point, the Bush administration is going to have to realize that the American people want to know what kind of influence energy corporations had over America's energy policies," said David Bookbinder, senior attorney for the Sierra Club , an environmental group.

Judicial Watch and the Sierra Club contend that Cheney consulted with industry executives like disgraced former Enron Corp. chief Kenneth Lay, while ignoring environmentalists as he drafted energy policy.

Cheney has acknowledged meeting Lay, but his lawyers say the task force was comprised of government officials, not corporate chieftains. The Bush administration has released thousands of pages of information from agencies involved in drafting the energy policy, but none from the White House.

Cheney was chief executive of energy and construction company Halliburton Co. from 1995 to 2000. His task force called for more oil and gas drilling and a revived nuclear power program.

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