Dick is Above The Law, VP Not Part of Executive Branch.
Writing by Marq on Thursday, 21 of June , 2007 at 9:33 pm
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If the office of the Vice President is not “entirely within the executive branch” and where the hell is it? this is got to be one of the finest examples of “F*ck the Constitution” ever to come from the mouth of such a hateful, sickening, “elected official”.
from Congressman Waxman’s Committee of oversight and Government website
Technorati Tags: cheney, Executive branch, WaxmanThe Oversight Committee has learned that over the objections of the National Archives, Vice President Cheney exempted his office from the presidential order that establishes government-wide procedures for safeguarding classified national security information. The Vice President asserts that his office is not an “entity within the executive branch.”
As described in a letter from Chairman Waxman to the Vice President, the National Archives protested the Vice President’s position in letters written in June 2006 and August 2006. When these letters were ignored, the National Archives wrote to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in January 2007 to seek a resolution of the impasse. The Vice President’s staff responded by seeking to abolish the agency within the Archives that is responsible for implementing the President’s executive order.
In his letter to the Vice President, Chairman Waxman writes: “I question both the legality and wisdom of your actions. … [I]t would appear particularly irresponsible to give an office with your history of security breaches an exemption from the safeguards that apply to all other executive branch officials.”
A fact sheet prepared by Chairman Waxman describes other instances in which the Vice President’s office has sought to avoid oversight and accountability.
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Comment by Papamoka
Made Thursday, 21 of June , 2007 at 11:46 pm
If this isn’t Nixon all over again to the tenth power then I don’t know what it is? Bush and Cheney have a ton to hide and the only way to hide it is by lawyering up the Constitution and they have brought that to an art form!
Rock on my friend!
