Cheney - can't hide no more? (executive privilege)

[radfringe]

back in 2001 - Cheney sat down with a cadre of oil execs and hammered out an energy bill.

When documents of that meeting were requested - The white house claimed it was executive privilege not to release the documents.

Since then, there has been a series of other requests for documents from the VP office. All have been pretty much denied - the deinal has been based on EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE

Cheney has now decided he is not part of the executive branch, citing that he's president of the senate which implies he's part of the legislative branch, and therefore doesn't have to comply with the archive requests

so which is it? Is the VP position legislative or executive? If he's legislative then he can't hide behind executive privilege. If he's legislative then he's subject to the same rules and code of conduct which governs the senate.

There's a little thing called SEPARATION OF POWERS - he can't be in two branches at the same time.

Roll out the supoenas, get him under oath. then IMPEACH his ass

[ClintonTyree]

1. You seem to have forgotten....

that this is a RepubliCON administration. Rules that would ordinarily apply to a Democratic administration do not apply here. They interpret the law to mean anything they want and when they can't hide behind that interpretation all Bush has to do is issue a "signing statement". Voila! The rules have been changed again with the stroke of a Presidential pen and BushCo. is free to do anything their hearts desire. The Bush Imperial Presidency. It's a wonderful thing. :sarcasm: They answer to no one, or so they think. It would be nice if our Congressional Democrats reminded them in some way that they DO have to answer to Congress and the American people. Gee, I wonder if there's a procedure in place where they could do just that? :eyes: Oh, that's right. It's "off the table". :grr:

[ixion]

2. the documents of that meeting

detail how they planned to game the system to jack up energy prices, IMO. :grr: