A Different Understanding With the President (WP editorial about cheney)

[leQ]

i'm going to post the top 5 secretive things about cheney, taken from slate's today's papers. it's basically taken from the editorial.

5. "In the usual business of interagency consultation, proposals and information flow into the vice president's office from around the government, but high-ranking White House officials said in interviews that almost nothing flows out."

4. "Man-size Mosler safes, used elsewhere in government for classified secrets, store the workaday business of the office of the vice president."

3. "Even talking points for reporters are sometimes stamped 'Treated As: Top Secret/SCI.' "

2. "Cheney declines to disclose the names or even the size of his staff, generally releases no public calendar and ordered the Secret Service to destroy his visitor logs." (Three in one!)

1. "His general counsel has asserted that 'the vice presidency is a unique office that is neither a part of the executive branch nor a part of the legislative branch,' and is therefore exempt from rules governing either."

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Then he doesn't get funding from the government

which Rahm Emmanuel has started. Next, someone needs to sue him so the SCOTUS can determine just where the VP fits into the scheme of things. If the people there say he is above the law, then laws need to be enacted to reign him in.

What we're seeing, I think, is the drawing back of the curtain on the true power in the Administration. Dennis Kucinich was absolutely right to introduce H Res 333-to impeach Cheney is to get at the heart of the darkness that pervades our government.

[OregonBlue]

2. Emmanuel needs to go one step further. Says they won't fund executive office but, since he's not

part of legislative, no funding there either. Has he asked him to give up his Senate office?

[cassiepriam]

3. More of the truth coming out, and it is not over by a long shot.