Document Says Oil Chiefs Met With Cheney Task Force

[kpete]

Document Says Oil Chiefs Met With Cheney Task Force

By Dana Milbank and Justin Blum
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, November 16, 2005

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.

Chevron was not named in the White House document, but the Government Accountability Office has found that Chevron was one of several companies that "gave detailed energy policy recommendations" to the task force. In addition, Cheney had a separate meeting with John Browne, BP's chief executive, according to a person familiar with the task force's work; that meeting is not noted in the document.

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

[Mari333]

1. cheney has been pretty quiet lately

hiding in his bunker on the lowlow.

[bdamomma]

12. oh yea, that snake is laying low.

his fingerprints are all over this.

[ThomWV]

2. So, will there be perjury charges brought?

Now days all testimony before Congress is sworn, and if 'industry officials testifying before Congress" lied then they should be charged, should they not?

[Angry Dragon]

3. Yes they should

OOOOHHHHHHHH

I forgot, laws only apply to the little person.
The Constitution clearly states that "people with money and power shall have more rights than others
and can only have laws applied to them that they deem fitting".

[Trillo]

7. Would those charges be against the corporations,

or the humans that spoke the words?

[Scuba]

4. No, Oil Chiefs WERE the Cheney task force.

[malaise]

11. DIng ding

We have a winner

[robertpaulsen]

5. K & R! Thanks for staying on top of this, kpete!

:kick:

[laughingliberal]

6. K & R nt

[SpiralHawk]

8. "Sneer." - xVP Dickie 'Five-Military-Deferments' Cheneney (R)

[KharmaTrain]

9. It Was Carving Up Turf...

The need to get those minutes are as compelling as ever...I'll bet we can trace back several scandals from what went on behind those closed doors. It wasn't as much about passing legislation as it was getting around existing laws, watering them down and getting "friendly" regulators...letting the oil companies name the people who were supposed to "oversee" them. The fix went in and is still in as the oil companies went full speed ahead in "drill baby drill" with little regard to consequences and they knew they had friends in very high places.

[Solly Mack]

10. K&R

[spanone]

13. of course they did, and they conspired to fuck over you and me....

[Skidmore]

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[bobthedrummer]

15. kick, and let's not forget when some Taliban leaders were flown to Sugarland in someone's corporate

jet in 1997-98, to discuss that Caspian Sea pipeline...

[bobthedrummer]

16. bttt