Cheney is trying to shut down a unit of the NATIONAL ARCHIVES!

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT: Agency Is Target in Cheney Fight on Secrecy Data
By SCOTT SHANE
Published: June 22, 2007

For four years, Vice President Dick Cheney has resisted routine oversight of his office’s handling of classified information, and when the National Archives unit that monitors classification in the executive branch objected, the vice president’s office suggested abolishing the oversight unit, according to documents released yesterday by a Democratic congressman.

The Information Security Oversight Office, a unit of the National Archives, appealed the issue to the Justice Department, which has not yet ruled on the matter.

Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California and chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, disclosed Mr. Cheney’s effort to shut down the oversight office. Mr. Waxman, who has had a leading role in the stepped-up efforts by Democrats to investigate the Bush administration, outlined the matter in an eight-page letter sent Thursday to the vice president and posted, along with other documentation, on the committee’s Web site.

Officials at the National Archives and the Justice Department confirmed the basic chronology of events cited in Mr. Waxman’s letter....

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...the National Archives is an executive branch department headed by a presidential appointee, and it is assigned to collect the data on classified documents under a presidential executive order. Its Information Security Oversight Office is the archives division that oversees classification and declassification....

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/22/washington/22cheney.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

[bridgit]

1. dick cheney is a traitor of the 1st order...

:thumbsdown:

[pinto]

2. Yeah, incredible. See also:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1152430

[Double T]

3. dick is a blatant criminal...........

and needs to be impeached. Criminal arrogance personified.

[whistle]

4. Dick Cheney is a thug

[JDPriestly]

5. Treason? Why else would he resist oversight?

What does he have to hide? After all, the Bush administration snoops on us.

[bdamomma]

6. that old man needs to pushed off his pedestal!! he is not immune

from prosecution.

[rodeodance]

7. good, this story is getting its legs.

[rodeodance]

8. CHENEY: "VP OFFICE NOT PART OF EXECUTIVE BRANCH"

Forum Name General Discussion
Topic subject CHENEY: "VP OFFICE NOT PART OF EXECUTIVE BRANCH"
Topic URL http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1152430#1152430
1152430, CHENEY: "VP OFFICE NOT PART OF EXECUTIVE BRANCH"
Posted by kpete on Thu Jun-21-07 10:09 AM

Cheney tells agency that Vice President's office is not part of the executive branch Michael Roston
Published: Thursday June 21, 2007


The Office of Vice President Dick Cheney told an agency within the National Archives that for purposes of securing classified information, the Vice President's office is not an 'entity within the executive branch' according to a letter released Thursday by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

"The Oversight Committee has learned that over the objections of the National Archives, you exempted the Office of the Vice President from the presidential executive order that establishes a uniform, government-wide system for safeguarding classified national security information," Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), the Committee's chairman, wrote in a letter to Cheney. "Your decision to exempt your office from the President's order is problematic because it could place national security secrets at risk. It is also hard to understand given the history of security breaches involving officials in your office."

Waxman noted that Cheney's office had declared itself not affected by an executive order amended by President George W. Bush in 2003 regarding classification and declassification of government materials.

"Your position was that your office 'does not believe it is included in the definition of 'agency' as set forth in the Order' and 'does not consider itself an 'entity within the executive branch' that comes into the possession of classified information,'" a National Archives official claims Cheney chief of staff David Addington wrote to him.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Cheney_tells_agency_that_Vice_Presidents_0621.html


UPDATE

Vice President Exempts His Office from the Requirements for Protecting Classified Information

Washington, D.C. -- The 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."

more at:
http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1371

[Ilsa]

10. Keith Olbermann: Ergo, Cheney and his office are a rogue state.

They must be invaded and democratized! (or words to that effect)

[madeline_con]

12. So why does he keep whining for Executive privileges? n/t

[proud patriot]

9. he must be stopped

[vixengrl]

11. Cheney's argument is pretty much ludicrous:

Well, that's very special, Mr. Cheney--


Sometimes, in the the Nosferatu sleep of the reanimation chamber (also known as an "undisclosed location"), memories can become jumbled, and the things you thought you knew change on you. You may wonder at your name, your origin, your purpose in life. You may wonder about your job title, if you're Dick Cheney:

http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1371

Yes, you may even assert that as a Vice-president, you are not part of the Executive Branch. Even though any grade school student (say--Are you smarter than a 5th Grader?) might know that the Vice-President is--and I say he is because:


http://vixensden-vixen.blogspot.com/2007/06/well-thats-very-special-mr-cheney.html

[DeepModem Mom]

14. VERY good! nt

[magellan]

21. Nice!

He's bucking for an Article II, Section 4.

[wildbilln864]

13. K&R #5 eom

[struggle4progress]

15. Archivist's Resignation Questioned (WaPo 2004)

Democrats Seek Reason for His Being Pushed Out

By George Lardner Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, July 26, 2004; Page A17

Archivist of the United States John W. Carlin was pushed by the White House in December to submit his resignation without being given any reason, Senate Democrats disclosed last week at a hearing to consider President Bush's nomination of his successor.

The Democrats said the White House should explain why it asked Carlin to resign. He said in a letter to Sen. Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.) that White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales called him Dec. 5 and told him "the administration would like to appoint a new archivist." Carlin said, "I asked why, and there was no reason given."

Critics have suggested Bush may have wanted a new archivist to help keep his or his father's sensitive presidential records under wraps. Under the Presidential Records Act of 1978, many of President George H.W. Bush's papers are due to become public in January.

The 1984 law establishing the National Archives and Records Administration provides that the archivist will serve an indefinite term and can be replaced if he resigns or is removed by the president. If he is removed, "the president shall communicate the reasons for any such removal" to Congress, the law says. ~snip~

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13913-2004Jul25.html

[DeepModem Mom]

23. Thanks for posting! nt

[DFW]

16. I'm sure the Bushies just forgot that last part.

NOT!

[Theduckno2]

18. Maybe they didn't! They could've used their RNC e-mail accounts.

Of course it is not known if those e-mails were sent and Karl Rove unknowingly erased them before anyone could check.

See it could easily be explained, even Tony Snow could do it with a straight face, I don't see what all the fuss is about. :rofl:

A small clue to those idiots that voted for Bush/Cheney, it is not loyalty that these people prize but Servile Obedience!

[LiberalFighter]

17. They should shut down Cheney's website

Then fumigate the Blair House.

[lonestarnot]

19. And he ate the pet fucking goat!

[mmonk]

20. Seriously people, those of you that oppose impeachment,

aren't you tired of living like Alice in Wonderland? When does the light come on and you say ok, everyone out of the pool.

[mwb970]

22. Cheney is the worst of a very bad bunch.

He is vile.