Mike the Usurper wrote:

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.”

hmmm... Not within the excutive branch... Well it's sure as hell not part of the legislative or judicial branches, so it's either executive or non-governmental, in which case Cheney shouldn't have any access to any government information outside what the general public has.

Oh, and the Secret Service can tell him to provide his own security.

This is a bigger problem than the media is making of it. Cheney quite literally believes that his office doesn't have to comlpy with oversight rules regarding highly classified information.

In a time of war, the VP believes his staff is better equipped to protect these docuements, or else has a lot to hide. Which one is more true, I leave as an exercise.

RE: Vice President Exempts His Office from the Requirements for Protecting Classified Information :: Committee on Oversight and Government Reform :: United States House of Representatives