Cheney in Charge of NORAD
Rigged Elections
World and Nation-State
10. ENERGY TASK FORCE (White House Energy Task Force, "National Energy Policy Development Group")
The official members of the Task Force were the Vice President, several Cabinet members, and other Executive Branch department chiefs. Secrecy still covers the discussion transcripts and the names of private sector participants.
Vice President Dick Cheney, Task Force chairman.
Andrew Lundquist, Task Force executive director; Lundquist also served as an advisor on Vice President Cheney's own staff; later a partner in Lundquist, Nethercutt & Griles.
Joseph Allbaugh, official Task Force member as chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA); later a partner in Lundquist, Nethercutt & Griles, and lobbyist for Halliburton Corporation.
J. Steven Griles, unofficial, but active Task Force participant as Deputy Secretary of the Interior; point-man for Jack Abramoff schemes within the Interior Department; later a partner in Lundquist, Nethercutt & Griles.
Joseph and Diane Allbaugh have been registered lobbyists for Halliburton/KBR, since early 2005. Joseph Allbaugh was chief of staff for Texas Gov. George W. Bush, manager of the Bush-Cheney campaign in 2000, head of FEMA, and a member of Cheney's Energy Task Force, while his wife Diane was a Reliant Energy lobbyist. Vice President Dick Cheney assigned Allbaugh's work in counterterrorism within FEMA.