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GAO Audit of White House Energy Task Force

  • Chronology of the GAO’s Attempts to Obtain Information from the National Energy Policy Development Group, August 25, 2003.
  • Energy Task Force: Process Used to Develop the National Energy Policy. GAO-03-894, August 22. Highlights
  • “The General Accounting Office said in a long-awaited report that Vice President Dick Cheney’s unwillingness to cooperate stymied efforts to find out which outside groups met privately with administration officials and what they discussed during the drafting of the energy plan in 2001.”
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  • In his commentary on this GAO report, John Dean contends “that Vice Pres. Cheney made a false statement to Congress.”
  • From Mother Jones, also worth reading, this article, The General Accounting Office has finally blinked.
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