Cheney, you Dick, if you didn't want your work made public, you shoulda stayed out of public life!

[BurtWorm]

What a wonderful this could have been without you getting your filthy gloms all over it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/21/AR2007062102309.html?nav=rss_politics



Cheney Defiant on Classified Material
Executive Order Ignored Since 2003

By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 22, 2007; A01

Vice President Cheney's office has refused to comply with an executive order governing the handling of classified information for the past four years and recently tried to abolish the office that sought to enforce those rules, according to documents released by a congressional committee yesterday.

Since 2003, the vice president's staff has not cooperated with an office at the National Archives and Records Administration charged with making sure the executive branch protects classified information. Cheney aides have not filed reports on their possession of classified data and at one point blocked an inspection of their office. After the Archives office pressed the matter, the documents say, Cheney's staff this year proposed eliminating it.

The dispute centers on a relatively obscure process but underscores a wider struggle waged in the past 6 1/2 years over Cheney's penchant for secrecy. Since becoming vice president, he has fought attempts to peer into the inner workings of his office, shielding an array of information such as the names of industry executives who advised his energy task force, costs and other details about his travel, and Secret Service logs showing who visits his office or official residence.

The aggressive efforts to protect the operations of his staff have usually pitted Cheney against lawmakers, interest groups or media organizations, sometimes going all the way to the Supreme Court. But the fight about classified information regulation indicates that the vice president has resisted oversight even by other parts of the Bush administration. Cheney's office argued that it is exempt from the rules in this case because it is not strictly an executive branch agency.

"He's saying he's above the law," said Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which released a series of correspondence yesterday outlining the situation. "It just seems to me this is arrogant and shows bad judgment."


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[Dora]

1. His curse will follow him.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/6450422/the_curse_of_dick_cheney/

Some day, may it be sooner rather than later I pray, Cheney is going to go down in flames.

[BurtWorm]

3. "Cheney's manner and authority of voice far outstrip his true abilities,"

says Chas Freeman, who served under Bush's father as ambassador to Saudi Arabia. "It was clear from the start that Bush required adult supervision -- but it turns out Cheney has even worse instincts. He does not understand that when you act recklessly, your mistakes will come back and bite you on the ass."


Amen to that!

[kestrel91316]

5. I want first dibs on the deed.

[spartan61]

2. Maybe we should just feel fortunate that The Dick is

allowing us to live in "his" country.:sarcasm:

[Dora]

4. Maybe Dick should feel fortunate that this isn't 18th Century France.

His time is nearing.

[kestrel91316]

6. Where are the guillotines when you REALLY need them? And Marat?