~e; Judge-- Release Energy Task Force docs

[brian carroll <human@electronetwork.org>]

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DOCUMENTS Related to Cheney Case Ordered Released
Reuters - United States
... Reuters) - A federal judge ordered several government agencies to  
release
documents related to an energy policy task force led by Vice President
Dick Cheney. ...
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A federal judge ordered several government agencies to release  
documents related to an energy policy task force led by Vice President  
Dick Cheney.

In an opinion released late on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Paul  
Friedman ordered seven government agencies including the Department of  
Energy, Department of the Interior and Bureau of Land Management to  
hand over pertinent documents by June 1.

He was ruling on a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by  
Judicial Watch and the National Resources Defense Council. The two  
groups had sued to force the various departments involved in the energy  
task force to release documents related to the task force and its  
deliberations.

Friedman said the agencies had an obligation to release the data.

A spokesman said the Justice Department was reviewing the ruling.

The lawsuit is a separate one from another case involving Cheney that  
is now before the U.S. Supreme Court.

The high court agreed in December to hear an appeal from Cheney, who is  
resisting a judge's order to produce documents about White House  
contacts with the energy industry in 2001.

The environmental group Sierra Club and Judicial Watch sued in 2001 to  
find out the names and positions of members of the energy task force  
led by the vice president that year. They alleged that Cheney, a former  
energy company executive, drafted energy policy by consulting industry  
executives.

The task force produced a policy paper calling for more oil and gas  
drilling and a revived nuclear power program.


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