I don't think I ever said that. These meetings were setting our energy policy. Are you saying that you like it that corporate leaders are setting policies? Why shouldn't we know what they talked about?
I would also hope that my President would get the best advice he could before making policy. Since Congress must pass any legislation the President comes up with I do not see how it would be possible for some company to write the legislation and get it passeed. The congress will stop it if it is bad policy. I don't really care if the President prays to God and get's it directly from him or Ken Lay(although if he did this I would ditch the policy along with the babby). As long as Congress takes a look at it and debates it then passes it I will be satisified. It is the policy that should count not how it is derivived. However I will be more likely to trust the President if he tells me how he came to the decision he came to. In this case I already knew the VP was going to run a task force and get candid advice from energy people in a confidential manner. I know Lay was in favor of Kyoto and Bush is not. Because of this I looked at the results carefully more so than if the meetings had been public.