A juicy bit of breaking news from the Washington Post:
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.
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The executives were not under oath when they testified, so they are not vulnerable to charges of perjury; committee Democrats had protested the decision by Commerce Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) not to swear in the executives. But a person can be fined or imprisoned for up to five years for making "any materially false, fictitious or fraudulent statement or representation" to Congress.
Not that there ever was much, but can there be any doubt left about the provenance of Bush administration energy policy?
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Adam Browning Posted 3:34 am
16 Nov 2005
The key point of this new development is that they know that the joint effort was not in the best interests of the American people.
You don't say you weren't there unless you know it was the scene of a crime.
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jdhlax Posted 7:21 am
16 Nov 2005
If Clinton could be impeached for his lie, everyone in the Bush administration who was part of promoting the WMD lie, and the oil execs who lied to Congress about whether they were on the task force, should all be imprisoned. However, neither of these things is likely to happen, showing that the American people have very screwed up priorities.
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