"Doug Miller" wrote in message
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In article , "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

"We" have not decided that a certain level of mercury from power plants is
OK. That was decided in meetings with attendees whose identity has been
CLASSIFIED by Dick Cheney. They decided what mercury levels they could
afford to release or control.

I think you need to renew the lining in your tinfoil hat, Kanter.

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)


I think you need to have the nursing home staff bring you the newspapers
more often.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/st...513661022.html

July 02, 2002

Cheney energy papers may have Yucca policy answers
LAS VEGAS SUN
WASHINGTON -- Energy policy documents that Vice President Cheney has kept
under wraps may indicate why the Bush administration switched its position
on Yucca Mountain, Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Monday as he joined a legal
effort to unlock the documents.

Nevada lawmakers have voiced concern that a White House task force led by
Cheney met privately last year with nuclear industry officials -- but sought
little input from Yucca critics -- as they developed a national energy
policy. Those meetings may have led Bush to abandon a promise to allow
"sound science" guide his decision about the planned high-level nuclear
waste dump at Yucca Mountain, Reid said.

Bush broke his promise when he approved Yucca in February, before important
scientific studies were complete, Nevada lawmakers say.

"The administration needs to stop hiding the truth," Reid said. "They should
tell the public which executives the Vice President met with and when he met
with them."

Reid on Monday filed an amicus "friend of the court" brief in federal court
in support of the General Accounting Office's lawsuit to make certain energy
documents public. Many lawmakers want to know who White House officials met
with as they drafted the administration's sweeping energy policy released in
May 2001. The policy endorsed a national nuclear waste dump amid other
far-reaching proposals.

White House officials have declined to release the documents because they
say they have a right to solicit information in the protected confines of a
private meeting. Bush wants the ability to get candid views outside the
government, aides say.

The GAO is the investigative arm of Congress. The White House's position of
hiding information about U.S. policy threatens the ability of Congress to do
its job, Reid said.

"This administration is systematically pursing a policy of hiding this
information from the people -- something which should not be tolerated in a
democracy," Reid said.