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Although the law requires the government to disclose the work of groups that include non-government employees, Dick Cheney adamantly refuses to release notes from his Energy Task Force. In June 2004 the case went to the Supreme Court, which returned it to the lower court.

A February 2004 New Yorker piece suggested a very compelling reason Cheney does not want those meetings made public. It released a secret National Security Council memo dated Feb. 3, 2001, seven months before 9/11, suggesting that Cheney sat down with the heads of the oil companies, ten days after taking office, and began planning the invasion of Iraq and seizure of its oil fields long before the World Trade Center attacks.