That’s finally laid to rest after more than three years of litigation. What the

U.S. Court of Appeals today decided is that the Sierra Club and Judicial Watch

(plus the entire MSM) were simply wrong to suggest that the President

and Vice President had any obligation to disclose the inner workings of

the National Energy Policy Development Group. In its decision today in

In re Cheney, the entire D.C. Circuit concluded that “severe

separation-of-powers” problems prevented the court from applying the

Federal Advisory Committee Act to require the Vice President to disclose

the details of his meetings within and without the government in

formulating the President’s 2001 National Energy Policy (still not

enacted into law, by the way). This was a case that a host of highly

talented government lawyers sweated blood for over a period of three

years and did a marvelous job. From the outset, it was a specious

lawsuit brought for political purposes, and it finally dies a well

deserved death.