Oil executives deny misleading Congress

[sabra]

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/business/13295602.htm

Oil executives deny misleading Congress

Associated Press


WASHINGTON - Five oil industry executives acknowledged frequent company contacts with government officials to discuss energy issues but insisted they had responded truthfully at a recent Senate hearing when they denied participating in Vice President Dick Cheney's 2001 energy task force.

The exchange at the Nov. 9 hearing prompted accusations by some Democratic senators that several of the executives may have knowingly misled Congress. A report published a few days later found that White House logs showed representatives of some of the companies had visited energy task force officials.

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John Hofmeister, chairman of Shell Oil Co., said Shell representatives did not meet with the task force but added, "Shell representatives did meet with the administration - including the vice president and his staff - on a broad range of energy policy issues."

Exxon Mobil Corp. said its chairman, Lee Raymond, responded accurately when he said no one at the company participated in a task force meeting - as the question was phrased by Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J.

[brer cat]

1. hmmm we can impeach a POUS over what "is" is but not

over what a "meet" is? Seems like these guys are parsing the truth pretty tight.

[acmavm]

2. And we're supposed to be telling our kids that lying is wrong. Apparently

not if your a corporate exec.

[punpirate]

3. Let's have them come back and repeat all this...

... under oath. :)

[DRoseDARs]

4. Fox denies chicken feather in his mouth is a chicken feather. n/t

[Dr Fate]

5. So go under oath then. n/t

n/t