Did oil execs lie to Congress?

[NeoConsSuck]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats asked the U.S. attorney general Wednesday to investigate whether top executives from big oil companies lied to Congress when they said their companies did not take part in Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force.

Democrats and environmental groups have fought unsuccessfully to find out which energy industry executives met privately with Cheney's group in 2001 as it prepared a broad plan friendly to oil industry interests. Environmental groups said they were mostly excluded from the discussions.

At a Senate hearing last week on record oil profits, Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey asked five executives, "Did your company or any representatives in your companies participate in Vice President Cheney's energy force in 2001?"

Each executive answered the question in the negative.

However, The Washington Post reported Wednesday that a White House document showed some companies did in fact meet with the task force. It said the document showed officials from Exxon Mobil Corp. (Research), Conoco (Research), Shell Oil Co. and BP America Inc., whose executives testified at last week's Senate hearing, met with Cheney aides.

http://money.cnn.com/2005/11/16/news/fortune500/oil_execs.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes

[Greeby]

1. Stevens refused to put them under oath for a reason

He wanted them to be free to lie their asses off. Either that or he's a crybaby who throws a tantrum when Democrats try to tell him what to do. Hard to tell really :crazy:

[annabanana]

3. hey! Isn't Stevens leaving?

Didn't he say he was "outa there" if he lost funding for his fabled bridge to nowhere?

Now he'll also be famous for not swearing in those crooks...

[Gin]

7. He didnt lose the funding....they took the "bridge" out of the bill

but kept the money in.....so...he stays..gets his stupid bridge....we get screwed. Business as usual.

[MADem]

11. That whole process was OUTRAGEOUS--I happened to have CSPAN on

and saw it, and could not believe it was happening...!

[Just Me]

2. Was this last hearing the ONLY time those execs lied about,....

,...their participation in Dickhead's ripoff task force? I would experience greater joy if each one of those assholes were threatened with more than 5 year sentences.

[imported_dem]

4. How can yout tell when oil execs are lying ?

Their lips are moving.

[izzie]

5. Does the sun etc. etc Need we ask?

:freak:

[StephanieMarie]

6. Is the Pope a Catholic? nfm

[Puglover]

8. What a moronic question....

Up there with....Is water wet?

[gademocrat7]

9. We know they lied. So what happens now?

[Media_Lies_Daily]

10. Do you know ANY major corporate execs that DON'T lie?....

...Think about it...

-Big Oil
-Tobacco Manufacturers
-Pharmaceutical Firms
-Wall Street
-Big Energy (other than Big Oil)
-Defense Contractors
-Accounting/Consulting Firms
-Auto Manufacturers

...etc., etc., etc.

[hadrons]

12. shouldn't the word DUH!!!!! be at the end of this headline?

DUH!!!!!!

[jonnyo]

13. Does no one remember the Maps of Iraq's Oil Fields

found by Judicial Watch in the documents of Cheney's Oil Exec Energy Meeting (before 9-11) that were aquired through the Freedom of Information Act? The "news" media sure as shit seems completely unaware of that fact.

http://www.opednews.com/Kall_cheney_cardiac.htm

http://www.judicialwatch.org/071703.c_.shtml