http://www.miamiherald.com/509/story/147580.html
"Cheney's office says it is exempt from Bush's executive order because it's not an entity within the executive branch. The order, issued in March 2003, directed all agencies and executive branch offices to report on their classified and nonclassified files to the National Archives and Records Administration."
'According to a letter that the National Archives sent to your staff in June 2006, you asserted that the Office of the Vice President is not an `entity within the executive branch,' and hence is not subject to presidential executive orders,'' Waxman wrote. ``To my knowledge, this was the first time in the nearly 30-year history of the Information Security Oversight Office that a request for access to conduct a security inspection was denied by a White House office.''
Stupid me -- I always thought both the President and Vice-President were part of the executive branch of our government.
Cheney is a political snake who believes that he and those around him are not subject to ANY laws because they are all so "special". I hope Waxman and other lawmakers keep on hounding him and is able to bring to light more of this administration's abuses of power. We will never know the full extent of their dirty tricks because by now I'm sure they have destroyed much of the incriminating evidence.
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