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Does the president need a copy of the Constitution? WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has refused to tell Congress the names of business executives and others who met with Vice President Cheney's energy task force before it proposed a new energy policy. It has encouraged agencies to reject public requests for documents under the Freedom of Information Act and is providing Justice Department lawyers to defend rejections. It kept nearly all members of Congress in the dark about a "shadow government" of 75 to 150 executive branch officials living in underground bunkers at secret sites outside Washington in case terrorists strike the nation's capital. Even House Speaker Dennis Hastert, next in line to the presidency after Cheney, was only vaguely aware of the emergency plan, aides say. For generations, it has been recognized that information is power in Washington, and few have been as successful as President Bush in holding tight to information and releasing it selectively. But now his success has triggered a backlash in Congress, where lawmakers complain that the administration is withholding crucial information. The White House "is getting a little imperious about not sharing any ideas with anybody," Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Joseph Biden, D-Del., complains. "I don't buy that, frankly," Bush said at a news conference Wednesday when a reporter asked about the gripes. "I have a duty to protect the executive branch from legislative encroachment." ...The Rest... I say... "And I don't buy that, frankly, Mr. President. You have no such duty to protect the executive branch from the checks and balances our Constitution describes as the means to prevent future tyranny. Awful fishy that you don't want to release information regarding energy policy when one of your biggest campaign contributors has just suffered a scandalous bankruptcy and when you're pushing to start drilling for oil in pristine Alaskan wilderness... Awful convenient to try to leave Congress out of the loop when your administration wants to wage war on whatever part of the world disagrees with you... What do you want us to think?" |
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