Putting Hillary Clinton in charge of an unwieldy, secretive task-force that attempted to present powerful senators with a masterplan backfired.
Mr. Bush's intentions will become clearer when the secretive task force led by Vice President Dick Cheney discloses the administration's energy strategy next month.
Never mind that the blackouts were caused by flawed deregulation, not any real lack of electrons.Bush appointees have undermined greenery in subtle ways that help the resource industriesPredictably, that secretive task-force came up with a rather wild energy plan, which included a controversial provision to drill for oil in Alaska's wilds.
Its chairman, Kenneth Lay, was among the influential advisers to Vice President Dick Cheney's secretive energy task force last spring.
Contrast that with my clashing cognitions about Vice President Dick Cheney and his similarly secretive energy task force, probably lopsided with oil-cat lobbyists.
His private papers show that he met with Vice President Dick Cheney in 2001 and unsuccessfully urged him to reach an accommodation with Congress's investigative arm, the Government Accountability Office, as it sought documents relating to Mr. Cheney's secretive energy task force.
Three weeks after the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case about former Vice President Dick Cheney's refusal to disclose the records of his secretive energy task force, Justice Antonin Scalia decided to go duck hunting with Mr. Cheney in Louisiana and accepted a ride to the outing on the vice president's plane.
Dick Cheney, a former boss of Halliburton, an oil-and-gas company, made sure his secretive energy task-force relied heavily on his buddies from the energy industry.This is not to imply that politicians are paragons of either virtue or competence.
It's even conceivable that they are right, but we'll never know because the matter was never brought into public debate and the recommendation for the changes came from Vice President Dick Cheney's famously secretive energy task force, whose membership he has refused to reveal.
In fact, Franklin was only arrested in 2010 after pioneering DNA technology and a semi-secretive police task force helped connect him to at least ten murders that stretched from 1985 to 2007, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
