Big oil execs to be indicted for lying about not being in the energy task force

[ck4829]

Gotcha!

Just another baseball player.

"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.

In a joint hearing last week of the Senate Energy and Commerce committees, the chief executives of Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp. and ConocoPhillips said their firms did not participate in the 2001 task force. The president of Shell Oil said his company did not participate "to my knowledge," and the chief of BP America Inc. said he did not know. "

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

You don't actually need to be under oath to be charged either, just knowingly lying to Congress is enough (According to the law.

[librechik]

1. If only! But everybody will be so riveted by the Clemens spectacle

the real thieves will slip away unnoticed.

[G_j]

2. just add them to the list of high criminals being held accountable

under the law. :sarcasm:

[Angry Dragon]

3. If I was Clemens I would tell Congress

it must be a big deal to lie to them if others can do it.
Use the unfair application of justice clause

[femrap]

4. SHIT....

yep you got me. Clemens, not Cheney.

It's so fucked up.