White House Withholds Energy Documents
from the pay-no-attention-to-that-man-behind-the-curtain dept.
Faced with a court-imposed deadline, the administration has released thousands of pages of documents describing meetings of the President’s energy task force – but withheld thousands of pages more. As an article in the LA Times describes, the Energy Department yesterday released about 11,000 pages of (heavily edited) documents, while withholding about 15,000 pages. An article in the Boston Globe refers to Vice President Dick Cheney’s insistence that the White House be allowed to conduct its business in private, “in order to let outside experts speak freely and anonymously.” Right. And in order to let him and his industry cronies determine our energy future without input from anyone else, while claiming to be conducting a balanced policy review.
