“Your office may have the worst record in the executive branch for safeguarding classified information,” Mr. Waxman wrote to Mr. Cheney.Dick Cheney is beyond the rule of law. He is proving it. He engages in activities we used to read about in communist Russia, Cuba or Saddam's regime. This is startling. Cheney has resisted the routine oversight of his office's handling of classified information. Please read this article.
When the National Archives objected, Cheney suggested abolishing the oversight unit, Henry Waxman of California reported yesterday according to released documents. The information Oversight Unit at the National Archives appealed the issue and the Justice Department has not yet ruled on the issue. Waxman, who is the chair of the Government Oversight Committee disclosed the information in an eight page letter to Cheney yesterday.
The letter said after repeatedly refusing to comply with classified document requests Cheney blocked an inspection at his office that routinely occurs in the Executive Branch. Now, Cheney amazingly is claiming that his office is not part of the executive branch because it has executive as well as legislative functions.
His audacity calls to mind dictators and authoritarians from a bygone age or another part of the world. Why on earth do we allow this person to run our country in to the ground and no one challenges him except for Henry Waxman?
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