Secret Task Force

“D. Cheney, Man of Mystery,” the June 27 editorial about Dick Cheney’s refusal to divulge with whom his energy task force consulted, says: “It also suggests that the Bush White House has picked up some tricks from its predecessor.” Nice try, but George W. Bush and Cheney picked up their tricks at the knee of Bush’s daddy. Remember Daddy Bush’s Council on Competitiveness--headed by then-Vice President Dan Quayle--which met in secret to help big business subvert environmental, labor and worker-safety laws?

Stop dragging Bill Clinton through the mud in order to provide cover for the corruption of the Bush/Cheney mob--a mob that sneeringly promised to restore honor and integrity to the White House. Bush and Cheney were corrupt long before Clinton was ever elected president. In fact, there wouldn’t even be a Bush White House had there not been some tricks pulled.

Scott L. Phillips

Norwalk