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JW Victory: Court Rules Cheney Must Turn Over More Docs A federal court judge ruled on May 23, over the objections of the Bush Administration, that Judicial Watch¹s lawsuit against Vice President Cheney and his Energy Task Force can proceed to discovery. The Bush Administration had asked the court to dismiss Judicial Watch¹s case and allow no discovery. The ruling, by The Honorable Emmet G. Sullivan, was thus a "devastating defeat" for the Bush Administration. "The court’s ruling lifts the veil of secrecy from Vice President Cheney’s Energy Task Force. Judicial Watch will now proceed to discovery about the Task Force’s composition and operations, and we intend to question individuals under oath," stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman. The victory for openness and honesty in government was the second for Judicial Watch in the same week. On May 22, Judicial Watch forced the release of an additional 2,400 pages of documents from the Department of Energy. The documents are primarily from the Executive Secretariat and the Advance office and include correspondence, faxes and e-mails. One letter from Chevron CEO David J. O’Reilly lobbied for lifting the "Iran-Libya Sanctions Act," in an effort to crack open markets to Iran, Libya and Cuba, three nations on the State Department¹s list of terrorist states. Other documents of note include letters from Kenneth Lay, the former CEO of the bankrupt Enron Corporation. Enron came under fire recently with the discovery of internal memos proving the company may have tried to illegally manipulate California’s electricity market. "With every document Judicial Watch obtains, the American people are a step closer to learning the truth about the Vice President¹s secret energy policy meetings," said JW Chairman Larry Klayman. Even with the release of these documents, much information remains withheld. Judicial Watch therefore continues to push its separate lawsuit against the Vice President’s Task Force forward in an effort to release all relevant documents into the public domain as is required by law.
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