Appeals Court Sides with Cheney..Unanimously...Imagine that!

[spanone]

So we now have a Legal Secret Government. Fuck you Dick Cheney.


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/politics/10cnd-cheney.html

WASHINGTON, May 10 - A federal appeals court handed the Bush administration a resounding victory today when it unanimously ruled that Vice President Dick Cheney does not have to divulge details on how White House energy policies were shaped.

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held, in an 8-0 decision that reinforced the power of the executive branch, that Mr. Cheney does not have to disclose the names of energy industry officials he consulted in helping to formulate policy early in President Bush's first term.

The Sierra Club and Judicial Watch have contended that the energy industry people were so deeply involved in formulating the administration's policy that they became de facto members of Mr. Cheney's National Energy Policy Development Group - and therefore their identities were subject to disclosure under the open-government Federal Advisory Committee Act.

[ck4829]

1. Fill in the gaps

We have the Right to do so. Their secrecy proves so much.

L/MIHOP
War in Aghanistan and Iraq
Enron's links to the Bush Administration

Hey, they can't say I'm wrong because they are being so secret about it.

[NVMojo]

2. What can we do? How do we rage against this machine? They would

kill another FDR type leader that sprung up ....we are prisoners to this government.

[Demit]

3. Victory for the regime, defeat for the people.

It's We the People who have to get them now, in 2006.

[Just Me]

4. THAT really, really sucks!!! Back to SCOTUS, I guess.

Maybe we need to embolden the sunshine laws. I'm sick of the secrecy being expanded in a so-called democracy.

This decision really pisses me off!! :grr:

[ComerPerro]

5. Hmm. Sounds like a case of activist judges

[paineinthearse]

6. Must be those activist judges!!! nt

[lala_rawraw]

7. Forget "Activist Judges"... how about "bribed"

judges?