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CENSORED - Secrets of Cheney's Energy Task Force |
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[ Subject: CENSORED(#8) Secrets of Cheney's Energy Task Force
[ From: (Rich Winkel)
[ Date: 13 Jan 2005 21:00:01 -0600
http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2005/index.html
(#8) Secrets of Cheney's Energy Task Force Come to Light
JUDICIAL WATCH, July 17,2003
Title: Cheney Energy Task Force Documents Feature Map of Iraqi Oilfields
Author: Judicial Watch staff
FOREIGN POLICY IN FOCUS, January 2004
Title: Bush-Cheney Energy Strategy:Procuring the Rest of the Worlds Oil
Author: Michael Klare
Faculty Evaluators: James Carr, Ph.D., Alexandra Von Meier, Ph.D.
Student Researcher: Cassie Cypher, Shannon Arthur
Documents turned over in the summer of 2003 by the Commerce Department
as a result of the Sierra Clubs and Judicial Watchs Freedom of
Information Act lawsuit, concerning the activities of the Cheney
Energy Task Force, contain a map of Iraqi oilfields, pipelines,
refineries and terminals, as well as two charts detailing Iraqi oil
and gas projects, and Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts.
The documents, dated March 2001, also feature maps of Saudi Arabian
and United Arab Emirates oilfields, pipelines, refineries and tanker
terminals. There are supporting charts with details of the major
oil and gas development projects in each country that provide
information on the projects costs, capacity, oil company and status
or completion date.
Documented plans of occupation and exploitation predating September
11 confirm heightened suspicion that U.S. policy is driven by the
dictates of the energy industry. According to Judicial Watch
President, Tom Fitton, These documents show the importance of the
Energy Task Force and why its operations should be open to the
public.
When first assuming office in early 2001, President Bush's top
foreign policy priority was not to prevent terrorism or to curb the
spread of weapons of mass destructionor any of the other goals he
espoused later that year following 9-11. Rather, it was to increase
the flow of petroleum from suppliers abroad to U.S. markets. In the
months before he became president, the United States had experienced
severe oil and natural gas shortages in many parts of the country,
along with periodic electrical power blackouts in California. In
addition, oil imports rose to more than 50% of total consumption
for the first time in history, provoking great anxiety about the
security of the country's long-term energy supply. Bush asserted
that addressing the nation's "energy crisis" was his most important
task as president.
The energy turmoil of 2000-01 prompted Bush to establish a task
force charged with developing a long-range plan to meet U.S. energy
requirements. With the advice of his close friend and largest
campaign contributor, Enron CEO, Ken Lay, Bush picked Vice President
***** Cheney, former Halliburton CEO, to head this group. In 2001
the Task Force formulated the National Energy Policy (NEP), or
Cheney Report, bypassing possibilities for energy independence and
reduced oil consumption with a declaration of ambitions to establish
new sources of oil.
The Bush Administrations struggle to keep secret the workings of
Cheneys Energy Task Force has been ongoing since early in the
Presidents tenure. The General Accounting Office, the investigative
arm of Congress, requested information in spring of 2001 about which
industry executives and lobbyists the Task Force was meeting with
in developing the Bush Administration's energy plan. When Cheney
refused disclosure, Congress was pressed to sue for the right to
examine Task Force records, but lost. Later, amid political pressure
building over improprieties regarding Enrons colossal collapse,
Cheney's office released limited information revealing six Task
Force meetings with Enron executives.
With multiple lawsuits currently pending, the Bush Administration
asserts that its right to secrecy is a matter of executive privilege
in regard to White House records. But because the White House staffed
the Task Force with employees from the Department of Energy and
elsewhere, it cannot pretend that its documents are White House
records. A 2001 case, in which the Justice Department has four times
appealed federal court rulings that the Vice President release task
force records, has been brought before the Supreme Court. The case
Richard B Cheney v. U.S. District Court for the District of Colombia,
No. 03-475, to be heard by Cheneys friend and duck hunting partner,
Justice Scalia, is now pending. Cases based on the Federal Advisory
Committee Act and Freedom of Information Act which require the Task
Force a balanced membership, open meetings, and public records, are
attempting to beat the Bush Administration in its battle to keep
its internal workings secret.
UPDATE BY MICHAEL KLARE: The issue of U.S. dependence on imported
oil has only become more critical over the past few months as U.S.
oil demand has risen and global supplies have contracted, pushing
up gasoline prices in the U.S., and thereby threatening the economic
recovery now (supposedly) under way. This, in turn, has made oil
prices and dependency an issue in the presidential election, with
President George W. Bush defending the status quo and Senator John
Kerry, the presumed Democratic nominee, calling for dramatic action
to reduce U.S. dependence on imported petroleum.
The contraction of global supplies is due in large part to political
turmoil in the major producing areas precisely the sort of situation
I predicted in my article. In particular, the pace of overseas oil
production has been moderated by repeated sabotage of oil infrastructure
in Iraq, terrorist strikes on foreign oil firms in Saudi Arabia,
ethnic unrest in the Delta region of Nigeria, and continuing political
turbulence in Venezuela. Together, these developments have pushed
oil prices to their highest levels in decades. At the same time,
the Bush Administration has shown no inclination to reduce U.S.
military involvement in major overseas producing areas, especially
the Persian Gulf, the Caspian Sea basin and Africa.
All of this has had one effect: The major news media are beginning
to pay much closer attention to the links between political turmoil
abroad and the economics of oil at home. Most major newspapers,
including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, have
published articles on various aspects of this problem. Still, the
media remains reluctant to explain the close link between the energy
policies of the Bush Administration and U.S. military strategy.
A number of new books have come out (or soon will) that bear on
this subject. My own book, Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences
of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency will be published by
Metropolitan Books in August. Also highly recommended are: Out of
Gas, by David Goodstein (W.W. Norton); The End of Oil, by Paul
Roberts (Houghton Mifflin); and The Party's Over, by Richard Heinberg
(New Society Publishers).
End of forwarded message from (Rich Winkel)
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