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Last Friday Vice President Cheney addressed the super-secretive conservative movement group, Council for National Policy, in Salt Lake City, as did the editor of the Deseret Morning News, a former lobbyist and Republican state chairman who "promised council leaders he would not write about what was discussed."

Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus also spoke to the group, after the Prague Post reported that his anti-environmentalist campaign is being funded by the right-wing think tank in the U.S., the Heartland Institute. Klaus is among those cited in a comprehensive report about "Alternative Views on Climate Change.'

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Vice President Dick Cheney and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney addressed some of the most influential leaders of the conservative movement Friday in Salt Lake City, but their speeches, like the group itself, remain cloaked in secrecy.

The Council for National Policy is a shadowy group comprising leaders in the family values, national defense and ''decency'' movements, dubbed "Sith Lords of the Ultra-Right" by the liberal blog DailyKos.

Members are told not to discuss the group, reveal the topics discussed in the closed-door meetings, or even say whether or not they are members of the organization.

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In the hallways, the talk was of presidential politics, efforts to combat pornography, preserve religious freedoms and fight Islamic extremism.

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Phil Burress, president of Citizens for Community Values and a leading anti-pornography activist, said he still questions why, as a board member for the Marriott hotel chain, Romney didn't campaign to have pornographic movies removed from the hotel rooms.

  Salt Lake Tribune

Yeah, why not?

Utah Democratic Party Chairman Wayne Holland said that the Council for National Policy meeting gives Utahns "a rare opportunity to see - or more accurately not see - what Republicans are all about. And that is how policy is influenced in this country by what amounts to a secret society of far-right-wing conservatives and religious extremists."

Members of the group say they are not a shadowy cabal but concerned Americans engaging in frank policy discussions, made possible by the secrecy.

A confidential copy of the agenda, obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune, showed topics for presentations covering a range of conservative causes, including anti-union presentations, the future of the anti-abortion movement and trends in international terrorism.

The Council for National Policy (CNP), is an umbrella organization and networking group for conservative activists in the United States. The New York Times has described it as a "little-known group of a few hundred of the most powerful conservatives in the country," who meet three times yearly behind closed doors at undisclosed locations for a confidential conference.[1] It was founded 25 years ago by the Rev. Tim LaHaye as a forum for conservative Christians to strategize about turning the country to the right.[2]

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Barry W. Lynn, the executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, told the New York Times about the CNP meeting ahead of the 2004 Republican National Convention, "The real crux of this is that these are the genuine leaders of the Republican Party, but they certainly aren't going to be visible on television next week."

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