Cheney attorney asked for data to be destroyed

[Ethelk2044]

Lawyer told Secret Service to erase visitor log at vice president's residence
WASHINGTON - A lawyer for Vice President Dick Cheney told the Secret Service in September to eliminate data on who visited Cheney at his official residence, a newly disclosed letter states.

The Sept. 13, 2006, letter from Cheney's lawyer says logs for Cheney's residence on the grounds of the Naval Observatory are subject to the Presidential Records Act.

Such a designation prevents the public from learning who visited the vice president.
The Justice Department filed the letter Friday in a lawsuit by a private group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, seeking the identities of conservative religious leaders who visited Cheney at his official residence.

The newly disclosed letter about visitors to Cheney's residence is accompanied by an 18-page Secret Service document revealing the agency's long-standing practice has been to destroy printed daily access lists of visitors to the residence.

Separately, the agency says it has given Cheney's office handwritten logs of who visits him at his personal residence.

Because of pending lawsuits, the Secret Service says it is now keeping copies of all material on visitors to Cheney's residence. According to the Secret Service document, Cheney's office has approved the agency's retention of the records, while maintaining they are presidential records subject to Cheney's control.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18927300/

[Lasher]

1. Uh, Lord Vader is not the president?

Does the Presidential Records Act apply to the VP?

[salin]

2. Josh Marshall wrote several months ago that Cheney's gang

is trying to claim that they are a unique position - that the veep is not exec branch but part exec branch and part congressional branch (as head tie breaker vote in the senate) and thus outside some of the restrictions on the exec branch.

[Lasher]

4. Sounds like the unitary executive crap. Gonzo must be writing Cheney's jokes too.

The VP has only two Constitutional functions: first in line for the presidency and President of the Senate, where (s)he votes only to break a tie.

Lord Vader is outside executive branch restrictions in the same way as you and I. We have no authority there unless it is given by the president. IMO If we are given a role to play there we encounter restrictions just as those imposed on the Secretary of State, for example.

This week I've been again sharing that OP you did awhile back on employer provided healthcare. It is standing up to the test of time quite nicely.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=210673

[Marnieworld]

5. when they changed the rules by executive order they re-wrote it for VPs too

In 2001 it was more about Poppy Bush' I think but sure it was in prep for Cheney. They re-write lots of stuff with the intent to make him more of a peer of the president. Gee I wonder who wants that? :eyes:

[Vinca]

3. Who's he trying to hide? The D.C. Madam???? nt