Deny, Deny, Deny

Last week, in a joint hearing of the Senate Energy and Commerce committees, Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) asked five oil execs whether or not they had met with Vice President Cheney's energy task force in 2001, as the Sierra Club and others have long alleged. The answers came back: No; no; no; I don't know; and Not to my knowledge. A document obtained by the Washington Posts now shows that yes, yes, yes, they did so.

Go here for more background on Sierra Club v. Cheney, et al.