Cheney's secret energy confab -

[madamesilverspurs]

will we ever have any details? Has anyone heard anything about this?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. open government?

[drm604]

2. That was leaked a number of months ago.

I'm sure there's a thread on here somewhere.

[Lint Head]

3. I want to see the details of that meeting.

Cheney should not have secret meetings with the very corporations that are ripping us off. He does not have Executive Privilege as he claimed. He was never challenged on that.
:dem:

[drm604]

4. I found it.

It was leaked to the Washington Post back in 2007.

Here's the Post's article:
Papers Detail Industry's Role in Cheney's Energy Report

At 10 a.m. on April 4, 2001, representatives of 13 environmental groups were brought into the Old Executive Office Building for a long-anticipated meeting. Since late January, a task force headed by Vice President Cheney had been busy drawing up a new national energy policy, and the groups were getting their one chance to be heard.

Cheney was not there, but so many environmentalists were in the room that introductions took up "about half the meeting," recalled Erich Pica of Friends of the Earth. Anna Aurilio of the U.S. Public Interest Group said, "It was clear to us that they were just being nice to us."

A confidential list prepared by the Bush administration shows that Cheney and his aides had already held at least 40 meetings with interest groups, most of them from energy-producing industries. By the time of the meeting with environmental groups, according to a former White House official who provided the list to The Washington Post, the initial draft of the task force was substantially complete and President Bush had been briefed on its progress. More...

Here's the list of task force meeting participants: Energy Task Force Meetings Participants

[madamesilverspurs]

5. Thanks much!

[Winterblues]

6. Pretty sure it was taken to court and the court ruled Cheney didn't have to reveal anything.

:shrug:

[drm604]

7. See post # 4.

The information was leaked to The Washington Post in 2007.

[Winterblues]

8. That wasn't Cheney's Energy meetings it was the environmental gathering

well after the fact. In fact it was because of this gathering that we all became aware that
Cheney had held secret meetings with the Energy Big Wigs..

[drm604]

9. No, It was his energy meetings. Read the entire article and the list of participants.

It was Cheney's energy task force meetings.