Perversion of Appelate Courts???

[Village Idiot]

I really find it head-scratchingly difficult to understand why this appeal to keep Cheney's Secret NEPDG documents went the way it did...

I wonder what these Appelate Court Justices were offered, and by whom, in order to reach an 8-0 unanimous verdict that IGNORED CLEARLY pointed advice from the SCOTUS???

This is actually both disgusting and INCREDIBLY disturbing...

The Decision Dismissing the Lawsuit Against Vice President Dick Cheney:
Why It Was Wrong, Both Legally and Logically
By LOUIS KLAREVAS

http://writ.corporate.findlaw.com/commentary/20050517_klarevas.html

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"During his first weeks in office, President George W. Bush set up the National Energy Policy Development Group (NEPDG), under the chairmanship of the Vice President Cheney. This task force was charged with developing a policy that would "promote dependable, affordable, and environmentally sound production and distribution of energy." The President appointed several cabinet secretaries, agency directors, and presidential assistants to the group."

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"After that report, Judicial Watch and the Sierra Club brought legal action against the NEPDG and the Vice President, seeking the discovery of documents that, they argued, were subject to disclosure under FACA."

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"In 2002, the district court ruled, in Judicial Watch v. NEPDG, that discovery could proceed for purposes of determining whether or not private individuals were indeed de facto members of the NEPDG..."

"But in 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Cheney v. District Court, deemed the discovery requests "anything but appropriate," complaining that they "ask for everything under the sky..." "

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"In sum, the D.C. Circuit reached a result that the Supreme Court never suggested, and that was contrary to the result the Court did suggest, of having the district court narrow the subpoenas. This result contravened Supreme Court guidance, not to mention common sense - and it is virtually certain it contravened the intent of Congress when it passed FACA. Limited discovery here - in the form of lists of meeting attendees - would have both allowed the plaintiffs due process, and followed the High Court's suggestion. "


I think I am about to THROW UP...