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CHENEY ARTICLE III. ABUSE OF OFFICE (2) Violating the Public Trust He has, while serving as Chair of the National Energy Policy Development Group from January 29 to May 16, 2001, granted improper influence to a select and anonymous group of corporate lobbyists, by: (A) granting privileged access in National Energy Policy Development Group consultations to nonfederal energy stakeholders from the petroleum, coal, nuclear, natural gas and electricity industries, whilst limiting input from academics, environmental and other policy organizations and private citizens; (B) allowing executives and lobbyists from these private energy interests to draft national energy policy, such as an Executive Order 13211, an order to exempt energy industries from judicial review, a verbatim draft of which had previously been provided by the American Petroleum Institute; (C) conducting these activities behind a veil of secrecy by invoking executive privilege in an effort to conceal an inherent conflict of interest between private interests and the public good from the Congress, the Media and the American people. Whereby Richard Bruce Cheney, by placing the interests of an exclusive group of corporate executives and lobbyists above the public interest, thereby violating the public trust vested in the Office of the Vice President, did commit high misdemeanors against the United States of America.
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