Speaking and ruling from his platform of international criminality, but as the vice-president of the United States: Cheney colluded with the energy giants against the public and the world-by elevating the 'needs' of the Energy Corporatocracy over every other need, in all fields of endeavor, when he placed their profits beyond all the laws that were enacted to prevent this continuing series of crimes from ever taking place.
Cheney got away with this by classifying everything he did in a series of White House meetings with energy insiders-even going so far as to seize the White House visitors logs, from the US Secret Service-to protect the identities of those with whom he met, in those very early days of the Cheney-Bush Cabal. What Cheney was able to put in place has led to everything from the wars over the price of gasoline and fuels, to the lies surrounding "clean coal," and covers virtually all "our wars" over resources from the pipeline war in Afghanistan (planned for well over a year before 911), all the way to allowing every Iraqi institution in Baghdad to be obliterated during the invasion, except for the ministry of oil.
To 'protect' his treason and to cover-up his lies Dick Cheney created his own shadow government that included his own version of military-intelligence that was used to block the real intelligence that should have been listened to: prior to Bush's unilateral and illegal invasion of Iraq.