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Field contracts. it's essentially a list of international oil companies that are lining up to get into iraq. the task force also obtains detailed maps of middle eastern oil fields. the map of iraq pinpoints the exact locations of the country's pipelines, refineries and super giant oil fields. >> we had oil fields we could divide up. foreign suitors along with american suitors meaning major oil firms and oil contractors like halliburton could line up for parcelling of those oil fields. >> none of these documents is included in the final energy task force report that's made available to the publ...

Cooperate with the cheney energy task force. combining two seemingly unrelated fields. the review of operational policies toward rogue states and actions regarding the capture of new and existing oil and gas fields. in the first month of the bush presidency, strategy for the potential use of military force toward rogue states and gaining access to new oil fields are melted together. >> if you look at the nexus of rogue states and seizing and capturing and controlling oil assets, there aren't too many states in the world that fit that definition. iraq stands at the top of the list. i mean, that...

Needed to unlock all of the supply you could find, and at that time, the sense was that both iraq and iran were the two sources of really bottled up supply that was irrationally off world markets. >> another report reviewed by the task force a few months later promises iraqi reserves represent a major asset that can quickly add capacity to world oil markets. the report urges the u.s. government to conduct an immediate policy review toward iraq, including military assessments. all of this months before 9/11. >> i certainly wouldn't argue that iraq and the decision to go to war and oil were unre...

Oil fields that will be essentially our oil fields. >> as the national security council trains its focus on iraq, president bush directs vice president cheney to head up a high-level energy task force. its operations are run out of vice president cheney's office. >> it was a highly secret operation and it was arranged to be that way. they tasked these people to hide away in a room in secret holding meetings and coming up with a policy. >> cheney's task force meets privately with energy lobbyists as well as executives from some of the nation's top oil companies. concerns about big oil's influen...

Be that way. they tasked these people to hide away in a room in secret holding meetings and coming up with a policy. >> cheney's task force meets privately with energy lobbyists as well as executives from some of the nation's top oil companies. concerns about big oil's influence in crafting u.s. energy policy will eventually lead congress' general accounting office to file an unprecedented lawsuit against the white house for access to energy task force records. >> john dingell, chairman of the energy and commerce committee, and i, requested the gao to do an investigation because while we were ...