Well now you know why they refused to take the oath… also, Cheney lied. Again
So the oil company execs lied to Congress. Stupidly, it turns out, since their lies were easily discovered.
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.
Cheney was there. Cheney was at the hearings. Cheney never corrected the record. Where I come from, we call that person a liar.
The White House has been denying that these oil execs-Cheney meetings ever took place for 4 years now. The WH has fought with every means at their disposal – including lies – every FOIA request, every interview, every story, and every statement.
Noooooo, Cheney would never call in the oil execs for an Energy Task Force and speak to them off the record and then implement every oil exec’s wet dreams as government policy. Never! Except, when it happens.