On December 10, U.S. District Judge John Bates Judge Bates ruled that
Cheney could keep secret the names of corporate advisors and lobbyists who advised Vice President
Cheney' Energy Task Force for George W. Bush.
See:
(http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/09/cheney.energy/index.html)
Other stories about the GAO suit against Cheney are posted at Yahoo, NYTimes,
LATimes and other major papers.
---Baby Bush appointed Bates to become a Federal Judge.
---B4 Baby Bush made him a judge, John Bates was an attorney for Kenneth Starr,
a special prosecutor who tried to convict the Clintons for wrong-doing over Whitewater, a
real-estate investment that went bad.
---When John Bates was an attorney on Kenneth Starr's White Water Investigation
of the Clintons, Bates argued successfully for the release of White
House documents, the notes of Hillary Clinton's discussions
with her government lawyers.
So, I don't think any one should be surprised when Congressman Henry Waxman
said the decision by Bates was a political decision by a Republican Judge.
(Kenneth, why aren't the Democrats complaining about Bates? Why don't they mention
the Bates-Starr connection?)
The GAO has been trying for almost a year to discover which industry
officials and lobbyists Vice President Cheney met with while formulating
the administration's energy policy.
Cheney met six times with Enron and once with Kenneth Lay
No other details released of meetings.
You can watch a multi-media story that includes references to Starr and Mrs.Clinton at:
cbsnews.com
"Bush administration won a victory in federal court to keep secret the
names of corporate advisers to Vice President Cheney's Energy Task Force."
Bill Plate Reports. See:
cbsnews.com
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The Whitewater Investigation: A Brief History
writ.news.findlaw.com
The following is an excerpt:
" Ken Starr spent countless millions investigating Whitewater with one goal in mind:
the criminal prosecution of the President of the United States (and possibly of the
First Lady as well).
In truth, just as President Clinton had said in calling for the investigation,
neither he nor Mrs. Clinton had engaged in any criminal conduct - only a bad investment.
As a result, the final IC report on Whitewater - issued years later by
Robert Ray (Starr's handpicked successor) - did not
recommend prosecution of the Clintons. "
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