Appeals Court Refuses to Rehear Cheney Energy Task Force Case

[JPace]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA7MNVAHKD.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court rebuffed Vice President Dick Cheney, refusing to intervene in a lawsuit delving into the role of business executives and industry lobbyists in formulating the Bush administration's energy plan in 2001.
The administration won only three votes in favor of rehearing the request to step into the case in which Cheney and his energy task force are being ordered to turn over a large number of documents to the conservative group Judicial Watch and the environmental group Sierra Club. The request for a rehearing went to nine appeals court judges.

The rejection Wednesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit leaves the Bush administration two choices.

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[Don_G]

1. Think Cheny Can Stonewall Everything Until 2005?

He'll almost have to or everything will come out just before the elections.

[aformson]

2. Hiding

They must have something pretty serious to hide if they're going to these lengths to prevent disclosure. It's only Energy after all - it's not as if it's military secrets...

[Rayjay]

4. Read the Michael Meacher piece

and you'll know why they are fighting so desperately to hide the facts surrounding the energy meetings. A report by the Baker Institute of Public Policy submitted to Cheney's task group recommended "military intervention" in Iraq well prior to 9/11 (Sunday Herald, October 6 2002).

[lfairban]

13. That is an incredible article . . .

. . . I am reading it now.

The plan shows Bush's cabinet intended to take military control of the Gulf region whether or not Saddam Hussein was in power.

<snip>

It spotlights China for "regime change", saying "it is time to increase the presence of American forces in SE Asia".

<snip>

The document also calls for the creation of "US space forces" to dominate space, and the total control of cyberspace to prevent "enemies" using the internet against the US. It also hints that the US may consider developing biological weapons "that can target specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool".

<snip>

The first hijacking was suspected at not later than 8.20am, and the last hijacked aircraft crashed in Pennsylvania at 10.06am. Not a single fighter plane was scrambled to investigate from the US Andrews airforce base, just 10 miles from Washington DC, until after the third plane had hit the Pentagon at 9.38 am. Why not? There were standard FAA intercept procedures for hijacked aircraft before 9/11. Between September 2000 and June 2001 the US military launched fighter aircraft on 67 occasions to chase suspicious aircraft (AP, August 13 2002). It is a US legal requirement that once an aircraft has moved significantly off its flight plan, fighter planes are sent up to investigate.


http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/comment/0,12956,1036687,00.html

. . . and much more. You need to read this!

[reprobate]

15. Hell, lfairban, the whole world should read this.

[newyawker99]

18. Hi Rayjay!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[newyawker99]

17. Hi aformson!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[goforit]

19. Ahhhh...........but the two go hand in hand with this group!

These energy crime thugs are creating the military
secrets........and our sons and daughters are dying
just for their individual desires!

[Rose Siding]

3. Man, that was my first thought.

How demoralized are we? (OK, it comes and goes)

SCOTUS would be a sure bet but a little obvious. I imagine they can stall in the lower court- reveal in bits and pieces.

But it took nerve for the judge there to stand them down, so who knows?

[0007]

6. Maybe the SCOTUS won't hear it!

So who know is right.

[hedda_foil]

5. Whoop! Whoop! Whoop!

Incoming Unca Dick! Better duck and cover!

on Edit: Please Go to Yahoo and rate this a "5" to get it all the way to the top! Here's the Yahoo link for the story.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030911/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney_energy_1

[NYC]

7. Currently rated 5, with 13 votes.

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[Judi Lynn]

9. Get Dick Cheney under oath

Want to see him answer questions with that old Republican "adults in charge" moral straightforwardness.


Yahoo rating: Its current average rating is 4.55 with 93 vote(s), at 9:20 p.m., EST

[Nottingham]

8. This is Terrible Terrible Abuse & Corruption!

I hope the Supreme Court Gets Cheney! :bounce:

[goforit]

20. Yep , Cheney is the key to it all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He is long due!!!

[teryang]

10. This is a bad omen for Cheney

I'm surprised the DC circuit didn't shut this down.

[dusty64]

11. He'll probably skate like

he has with every other case including one this week involving Haliburton. I really have no faith left in our system particularly the judicial.

[young_at_heart]

14. Everything he has done has turned to gold

Why should this be any different? But, maybe we will see a turn-around for once. The bullying behavior can't always be a winner for these people.......I hope!

[lindashaw]

12. Ain't that just grand!!!!!!!!

[dusty64]

16. Wonder what

if anything will become of this. They've been stalling and stalling forever, makes one think of what the media would be doing about this if it were Gore instead of crashcart.