Full disclosure

THIS IS THE price of Dick Cheney's obstinacy: Until he tells the truth, Americans will wonder whether the nation's natural resources and power supply are controlled by campaign chits. Whether clean air is a right or a commodity. Whether the Office of the Vice President, and by extension the executive branch, is for sale.
Mr. Cheney's failure to disclose the work of his National Energy Policy Development Group is a sin of omission, with escalating potential for credibility damage.
In the early going, the question was whether now-disgraced Enron officials influenced national energy policy at Mr. Cheney's meetings. Now it is hard not to see the hand of campaign donors -- energy industry giants -- in administration proposals headed for Senate deliberation. The trail of crumbs keeps leading back to Mr. Cheney's task force.