"In the end, we don't know what we don't know," re: Cheney's role in the Klamath River water policy

[Kadie]

Watchdog Clears Cheney in Limited Probe
By MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press Writer

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

(07-31) 15:16 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --

The Interior Department's inspector general didn't find political interference by Vice President Dick Cheney on a key environmental policy in part because investigators weren't looking for it, an Interior official said Tuesday.

A 2004 report by the inspector general found no basis for a claim by then-Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry that White House political advisers interfered in developing water policy in the Klamath River Basin in California and Oregon.

But investigators did not ask about Cheney — and no Interior employee volunteered information about him, said Mary Kendall, deputy Interior inspector general. A former high-ranking Interior official, Sue Ellen Wooldridge, told The Washington Post that Cheney contacted her on a regular basis in 2001 and 2002, when the Bush administration was reworking water policy for the drought-starved basin.

Wooldridge, who oversaw Klamath policy, never told investigators about her contacts with Cheney, Kendall said. And because investigators were focusing on White House political adviser Karl Rove — who was singled out in the Democratic complaint — they did not ask about Cheney, Kendall said.

"In the end, we don't know what we don't know," she told members of the House Natural Resources Committee at a hearing exploring Cheney's role in the Klamath.

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[SpiralHawk]

1. Unknown unknowns. - a republicon crony speciality

"Smirk, sneer, smirk." - Dickie 'Five Military Deferments' Cheney*

* "One thing we republicon chickenhakwks do know is how to get beaucoup military deferments, Smirk, sneer, smirk." - Dickie Boy

[baby_mouse]

2. = "we don't know shit" nt

[stevedeshazer]

3. Bullcrap.

Cheney and Senator Gordon Smith's involvement is very well documented.

http://www.oregonecology.com/2007/07/cheney-kills-salmon-for-gordon-smith.html

http://www.tsweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1676&Itemid=71

http://www.earthjustice.org/our_work/buck_in_brief/cheney-and-the-klamath-fish-kill.html

http://www.loadedorygun.net/showDiary.do?diaryId=16

This is just another Bush Crime Family appointee.

Mark my words, this will be an issue in Gordon Smith's reelection campaign.

Big time.

They can't sweep all those dead fish under the rug.

[SpiralHawk]

4. He's just another lying republicon crony

Why do republicons HATE America?

[sandnsea]

5. Hey

I've got local crabbers concerned about the crabbing areas that are the same as the wave energy buoys. There's still lots of room for talking, but I'm wondering what you know about filing as intervenors. Shouldn't that be done, regardless, just in case. It is true, if crab aren't taken from traditional habitat, then more predators will be attracte inland, and the entire fishery can change. We need to be considering this as we go forward.

I don't understand the intervenor process.

[stevedeshazer]

6. I don't understand what you mean as it relates to the Klamath Fish Kill

The crabbing / wave energy thing is a whole 'nother topic.

[sandnsea]

7. I just noticed you is all

And as it relates to any environmental matter, wondered if you knew about the intervenor process.