Looks like another lefty talking point has bit the dust.

Court backs Cheney on energy meetings
Details on private strategy sessions to remain as such

A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that Vice President Dick Cheney will not have to release details about the role of energy executives in private meetings Cheney held to craft national energy strategies, a decision that probably brings an end to a long-running and politically charged lawsuit.

The Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia unanimously ruled that there was no evidence that energy lobbyists were official participants in Cheney’s private energy policy task force meetings, so its records do not have to be disclosed.

”In making decisions on personnel and policy, and in formulating legislative proposals, the president must be free to seek confidential information from many sources, both inside the government and outside,” the court wrote.

I doubt the looney left will let this decision interfere with their list of “facts” about the meetings.