Cheney Pursuing Nuclear Ambitions of His Own

[kpete]

Cheney Pursuing Nuclear Ambitions of His Own
By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t | Report

Monday 05 November 2007

While Dick Cheney has been talking tough over the years about Iran's alleged nuclear activities, the vice president has been quietly pursuing nuclear ambitions of his own.

For more than two years, Cheney and a relatively unknown administration official, Deputy Energy Secretary Clay Sell, have been regularly visiting the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to ensure agency officials rewrite regulatory policies and bypass public hearings in order to streamline the licensing process for energy companies that have filed applications to build new nuclear power reactors, as well as applications for new nuclear facilities that are expected to be filed by other companies in the months ahead, longtime NRC officials said.

Before being sworn in as deputy energy secretary in March 2005, Sell, a lawyer whose roots extend to Bush's home state of Texas, was a White House lobbyist working on energy issues. He had also participated in secret meetings with Cheney's Energy Task Force.

In April, Sell and Cheney had both met with NRC officials to sign off on the final regulatory policies related to new nuclear reactors. Following the meeting, Sell had alerted a group of energy companies they could begin to take advantage of the faster application process, NRC officials said.

NRC officials said that Cheney has expressed a desire to see applications for nuclear reactor projects approved by the NRC when he and Bush leave the White House in January 2009.

more at:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110507A.shtml

[libodem]

1. I'm so sick of the inmates running the asylum

We have crazed criminals destroying our Government as fast as they can dismantle it, all in top secret. God forgive me, i can't help but hate these people. They are all the complete antithesis of what the founding fathers envisioned, for operating a Democracy.

[spanone]

2. i expect nothing less from our vice-dictator

[Frustratedlady]

3. Have they missed anything?

The only good point out of the article was that Bush and Cheney say they are leaving in 2009. Sneaky bastids.

[sallyseven]

4. A nice bomb up his butt would be a nice ending

to his vice presidency.