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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Chen who wrote (424513)	7/9/2003 10:09:42 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Respond to of 769670

Yeah you right. We're all slaves, we just don't know it...

To: John Chen who wrote (424513)	7/9/2003 10:11:44 AM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

COURT UPHOLDS DEMANDS ON BUNKER DICK TO TURN OVER THE PAPERS!!!!! After all this time, he finally loses the BIG ROUND to uncover the incredible secrecy and disgusting cooperation of this administration with KENNY LAY and ENRON to bilk the entire nation of BILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF $$$$$ Court Allows Suit on Cheney's Energy Panel The Associated Press Tuesday 08 July 2003 WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court dealt a setback to the Bush administration Tuesday, refusing to stop a lawsuit delving into Vice President Dick Cheney's contacts with the energy industry as his task force was drafting the White House's energy policy. In a 2-1 ruling, the court rejected the government's arguments that the lawsuit would be an unconstitutional intrusion on the operations of the executive office of the president. Cheney and administration officials ``have not satisfied the heavy burden'' required for the appeals court to get involved in the case, wrote appeals judge David Tatel. Appeals judge Harry Edwards concurred in a separate opinion. The lawsuit had been proceeding in a lower court. Drafted in 2001, the administration's energy plan favors opening more public lands to oil and gas drilling and proposes a wide range of other steps supported by industry. It followed months of discussions by task force members and staff with business executives and lobbyists from the energy sector. The groups that are suing -- Sierra Club and the conservative Judicial Watch -- allege that participants from industry effectively became members of the task force in assembling the White House's energy policy. The administration says the makeup of the task force was limited to government officials. Bush administration officials have not even produced a summary of documents they want to keep confidential, the appeals court said. If the administration is so concerned about unwarranted intrusion, it can ``invoke executive or any other privilege'' in an attempt to keep the material out of the public domain, Tatel wrote. Judge A. Raymond Randolph dissented, declaring that ``for the judiciary to permit this sort of discovery'' into the actions of the vice president and other Cabinet-level appointees ``strikes me as a violation of the separation of powers.'' Federal agencies have disclosed 39,000 pages of internal documents related to the work of Cheney's energy task force, which itself has turned over no materials. ``We look forward to finally gaining access to the inner workings of the energy task force,'' said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch. For more on Dick Cheney's secret energy task force.