"For official use only!" Cheney's huge staff revealed!

[Bluebear]

And WHY are we the taxpayers providing Lynne Cheney with a staff of six?


http://www.fas.org/sgp/bush/vp2004.pdf

Cheney's office refuses to give any details to reporters. His office is exempt from the Freedom of Information Act, so any such request would be futile. What's more, Cheney appears to have exempted his office from having to disclose the number of appointed officials in his ranks: all other agencies have to release theirs for a government directory known as the "Plum Book."...

Stamped "For Official Use Only," the four-page document lists 81 employees, including six who worked for Lynne Cheney. That's well over the 30 or so names Cheney's office is said to submit routinely to directory services.

The directory shows 23 staffers who worked exclusively on national security and homeland security issues. Meanwhile, three positions were dedicated on domestic policy issues; one of those was vacant at the time of the directory's publishing.

It's not clear how much overlap there is with the list we posted earlier of 41 staffers serving Cheney from the Senate's payroll according to a 2006 report. But at least now we're in the ballpark of the 88 staffers Laura Rozen estimated to be there.


http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002432.php

[CrazyOrangeCat]

1. a great american family . . . n/t

[lovuian]

2. The Vice President has NO POWERS and yet

this guy's staff looks like he is running the country

Pelosi cut his staff
:patriot:

[Rex]

3. He has an army of 'helpers', right?

As I was saying in another thread.

[Aviation Pro]

4. Didn't someone once say that the Vice-Presidency is as....

...worthless as a warm bucket of spit? Perhaps the righteous John Conyers will remind Cheney of this in the near future.

[Jeanette in FL]

5. Dick, you work for us, not the other way around

Could any of us do this with our employer.

[TahitiNut]

6. Hell ... I wish I had an income that matched their phone bill.

I'd be willing to bet that their phone bill alone is higher than what most people earn.

[MonkeyFunk]

7. Whew...

I thought "Cheney's huge staff" referred to this:

[Bucky]

8. Heh. "Big staff". Heh.

Yeh, I've seen the photos. I still think it was a cholostomy bag.

[htuttle]

12. But at least it's for official use only...

[ourbluenation]

9. He has no executive assistant...this explains part of his problem...sign me

an executive assistant.

[Joey Liberal]

10. Cheney is our version of Saddam n/t

[SoCalDem]

11. Oooh oooh .photoshop needed... stat

cheney's head

on

this pic

[SalmonChantedEvening]

13. Nope. Not doin that joke. Nuh uh. Nosiree ummm..... Me.

Wish I had me a halo smilie :)