Dick Cheney Claims Vp Office 'not Part Of Executive Branch"

[Hardrock69]

SIEG HEIL!!!
:mad:


June 21, 2007 12:57 PM

Justin Rood Reports:

Vice President Dick Cheney has asserted his office is not a part of the executive branch of the U.S. government, and therefore not bound by a presidential order governing the protection of classified information by government agencies, according to a new letter from Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., to Cheney.

Bill Leonard, head of the government's Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO), told Waxman's staff that Cheney's office has refused to provide his staff with details regarding classified documents or submit to a routine inspection as required by presidential order, according to Waxman.

In pointed letters released today by Waxman, ISOO's Leonard twice questioned Cheney's office on its assertion it was exempt from the rules. He received no reply, but the vice president later tried to get rid of Leonard's office entirely, according to Waxman.

Leonard did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

In a statement e-mailed to the Blotter on ABCNews.com, Cheney spokeswoman Megan McGinn said, "We are confident that we are conducting the office properly under the law.”

As director of the tiny, 25-person Information Security Oversight Office, Leonard is responsible for keeping track of the nation's secrets and making sure they are properly protected.

For the first two years of the George W. Bush administration, Cheney's office complied with a presidential order that requires officials to report statistics on the number of documents it classifies and declassifies.

Since 2003, however, Cheney's office has refused to submit the data to ISOO. And when ISOO inspectors tried in 2004 to schedule a routine inspection of the vice president's offices, they were rebuffed, Waxman's letter claims.

Other White House offices, including the National Security Council, did not object to similar inspections, according to Waxman.

"Serious questions can be raised about both the legality and advisability of exempting your office from the rules that apply to all other executive branch officials," Waxman said in his letter to the vice president, and asked him to explain why he felt the rules didn't apply to him and his staff and how he was protecting classified information in his office.

Former Cheney aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was recently convicted on several counts of perjury and obstruction of justice stemming from the leak of the identity of former covert CIA officer Valerie Plame, Waxman noted, and in 2006, former Cheney aide Leandro Aragoncillo pleaded guilty to sharing classified U.S. documents with foreign nationals. Aragoncillo also worked under former Democratic Vice President Al Gore, who complied with ISOO's requests.


http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/06/cheney-power-gr.html

[BITEYOASS]

Would Cheney do us all a favor and just die! Even the damn chimp supporters hate this Dick!

[FORD]

This is actually good news.....

If the DICK is not part of the executive branch, then he is not protected by "executive priviledge".

Which means its time to prosecute the motherfucking treasonous son of a bitch.

[Hardrock69]

LMFAO!!!
Check this shit out!

Cheney: Neither Here Nor There?

By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Thursday, June 21, 2007; 1:36 PM

The House Oversight Committee is demanding that Vice President Cheney explain himself. Is his office part of the executive branch? Part of the legislative branch? Or is Cheney suggesting that as far as federal rules are concerned, his office essentially doesn't exist?

The issue at hand is Cheney's insistence that his office is exempt from an executive order issued by President Bush in 2003 requiring all federal agencies or "any other entity within the executive branch that comes into the possession of classified information" to report annually on its activities regarding the classification, safeguarding and declassification of national security information.

As Mark Silva reported in the Chicago Tribune in April 2006, Cheney's office maintains that its dual executive and legislative duties (the vice president also serves as president of the Senate) make it uniquely exempt from such rules.

Henry Waxman, the Democratic chairman of the Oversight Committee, begs to differ, and wrote a letter to Cheney this morning saying so.

"Your office may have the worst record in the executive branch for safeguarding classified information," Waxman wrote, noting the recent conviction of former vice presidential chief of staff I Lewis "Scooter" Libby for obstructing justice by lying about his role in disclosing the identity of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame.

"Given this record, serious questions can be raised about both the legality and the advisability of exempting your office from the rules that apply to all other executive branch officials."

The committee explained the background in a news release this morning: "As described in a letter from Chairman Waxman to the Vice President, the National Archives protested the Vice President's position in letters written in June 2006 and August 2006. When these letters were ignored, the National Archives wrote to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in January 2007 to seek a resolution of the impasse. The Vice President's staff responded by seeking to abolish the agency within the Archives that is responsible for implementing the President's executive order."

In the letter to Cheney, Waxman wrote: "To help the Committee understand your perspective on these matters, I ask that you provide written answers and documents in response to the following questions:

"(1) What is the basis for your view that the Office of the Vice President is not bound by Executive Order 12958?

"(2) In the absence of compliance with Executive Order 12958, what steps has the Office of the Vice President taken to ensure that classified information is adequately safeguarded within your office? . . .

"(3) Is it the official position of the Office of the Vice President that your office exists in neither the executive nor legislative branch of government? . . .

"(4) Has the Office of the Vice President sought to retaliate against the National Archives for asserting authority to conduct inspections in or require reporting by the Office of the Vice President?"


A " fact sheet" prepared by the committee describes other instances in which the vice president's office has sought to avoid oversight and accountability. Those efforts include challenging the right of the Government Accountability Office to examine the activities of the Cheney's energy task force and refusing to disclose basic facts about the operations of his office, such as the identity of his staffers and the individuals who visit his residence.

Cheney vs. Global Warming

Tim Dickinson writes in Rolling Stone: "It is no secret that industry-connected appointees within the White House have worked actively to distort the findings of federal climate scientists, playing down the threat of climate change. But a new investigation by Rolling Stone reveals that those distortions were sanctioned at the highest levels of our government, in a policy formulated by the vice president, implemented by the White House Council on Environmental Quality and enforced by none other than Karl Rove. An examination of thousands of pages of internal documents that the White House has been forced to relinquish under the Freedom of Information Act -- as well as interviews with more than a dozen current and former administration scientists and climate-policy officials -- confirms that the White House has implemented an industry-formulated disinformation campaign designed to actively mislead the American public on global warming and to forestall limits on climate polluters.

"'They've got a political clientele that does not want to be regulated,' says Rick Piltz, a former Bush climate official who blew the whistle on White House censorship of global-warming documents in 2005. 'Any honest discussion of the science would stimulate public pressure for a stronger policy. They're not stupid.'

"Bush's do-nothing policy on global warming began almost as soon as he took office. By pursuing a carefully orchestrated policy of delay, the White House has blocked even the most modest reforms and replaced them with token investments in futuristic solutions like hydrogen cars. 'It's a charade,' says Jeremy Symons, who represented the EPA on Cheney's energy task force, the industry-studded group that met in secret to craft the administration's energy policy. 'They have a single-minded determination to do nothing -- while making it look like they are doing something.' . . .

"The CEQ became Cheney's shadow EPA, with industry calling the shots. To head up the council, Cheney installed James Connaughton, a former lobbyist for industrial polluters, who once worked to help General Electric and ARCO skirt responsibility for their Superfund waste sites.

"Industry swiftly took advantage of its new friend in the White House. In a fax sent to the CEQ on February 6th, 2001 - two weeks after Bush took office - ExxonMobil's top lobbyist, Randy Randol, demanded a housecleaning of the scientists in charge of studying global warming. . . .

"Exxon's wish was the CEQ's command. According to an internal e-mail obtained by Rolling Stone, Connaughton's first order of business -- even before his nomination was made public -- was to write his White House colleagues-to-be from his law firm of Sidley and Austin. He echoed Exxon's call that [Rosina] Bierbaum, the acting director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, be 'dealt.' In the end, each of the scientists on Exxon's hit list was replaced."

Fascinating story. A request to Rolling Stone: How about putting those e-mails and documents online?

The End Times

Edward Luce and Andrew Ward write in the Financial Times: "When asked whether he was quitting the Bush administration because it would be good for his political future, Rob Portman, the outgoing budget director, replied: 'It would be good for my mental health.' Although Mr Portman was joking, a growing list of officials have already acted on that impulse.

"At least 20 senior aides have left important posts in the White House, Pentagon or State Department over the past six months, as chaos has deepened in Iraq. 'There's a real sense of fatigue and very little sense of purpose,' said a senior official, who asked not to be named. 'My guess is you're going to see a lot more departures.'

"Mr Portman, who had been Mr Bush's budget director for little more than a year, could hardly have quit at a less convenient time for the administration. His resignation was particularly symbolic because he had taken the job as part of last year's White House shake-up designed to breathe fresh life into Mr Bush's second-term policy agenda."

Luce and Ward write that the administration's efforts have been lackluster in the second term. "It has spent much of its dwindling political capital lobbying for an immigration bill that may never reach the statute books.


"'What is the point of sticking around in an administration that isn't going to accomplish anything significant?' said a former official. Meanwhile, the administration faces a growing cacophony of congressional hearings into its handling of the Iraq war, into its alleged politicisation of the Justice department and into its handling of military tribunals to try alleged terrorist detainees."

David Ignatius asks in his Washington Post opinion column: "[H]ow do Bush and his senior aides hope to keep momentum going for the ship of state in such a difficult period? I put that question to several senior administration officials during the past week, and their answers surprised me -- not because they have a clear plan of action, but because they don't see the Bush presidency in as dire straits as many outsiders do. . . .


"One way to describe the current White House mind-set might be 'muddling through.' Certainly, that seems a fair description of Iraq policy. 'In Bush's view, we are not on the edge of failure or of blindingly visible success,' says [one senior official who sees Bush almost every day.] . . .

"One of Bush's top aides muses on the defining paradox of this presidency: How did a man who promised a change of tone in Washington preside over one of the most partisan and divisive periods in the country's history? Bush doesn't conduct feuds or hold personal grudges, this adviser insists. 'The president is polarizing, even though he isn't polar.' Here's where I find a disconnect: Bush's aides seem not to understand how Bush and Cheney's statements have poisoned the water."

Sidney Blumenthal writes for Salon: "In private, Bush administration sub-Cabinet officials who have been instrumental in formulating and sustaining the legal 'war paradigm' acknowledge that their efforts to create a system for detainees separate from due process, criminal justice and law enforcement have failed. One of the key framers of the war paradigm (in which the president in his wartime capacity as commander in chief makes and enforces laws as he sees fit, overriding the constitutional system of checks and balances), who a year ago was arguing vehemently for pushing its boundaries, confesses that he has abandoned his belief in the whole doctrine, though he refuses to say so publicly. If he were to speak up, given his seminal role in formulating the policy and his stature among the Federalist Society cadres that run it, his rejection would have a shattering impact. . . .


"Yet another Bush legal official, even now at the commanding heights of power, admits that the administration's policies are largely discredited. In its defense, he says without a hint of irony or sarcasm, 'Not everything we've done has been illegal.' He adds, 'Not everything has been ultra vires' -- a legal term referring to actions beyond the law."

Salon has published an excerpt from blogger Glenn Greenwald's new book: "A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency," coming out next week.

Greenwald writes: "[T]he great and tragic irony of the Bush presidency is that its morally convicted foundations have yielded some of the most morally grotesque acts and radical departures from American values in our country's history. The president who insists that he is driven by a clear and compelling moral framework, in which the forces of Good and Evil battle toward a decisive resolution, has done more than almost any American in history to make the world question on which side of that battle this country is fighting. The more convinced President Bush and his followers become of the unchallengeable righteousness of their cause, the fewer limits they recognize. And America's moral standing in the world, and our national character, continue to erode to previously unthinkable depths."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/06/21/BL2007062101075.html?nav=hcmodule


There are additional items at the washingtonpost.com website tacked onto the end of the above article concerning all the ways Cheney and his trained chimp have been fucking things up, but they are not exactly relevant to dickhead Cheney's views on being exempt from all laws.

[ODShowtime]

Originally posted by FORD
This is actually good news.....

If the DICK is not part of the executive branch, then he is not protected by "executive priviledge".

Which means its time to prosecute the motherfucking treasonous son of a bitch.

hey good point

[FORD]

I just hope Henry Waxman doesn't fly in private jets any time in the near future....

[Nickdfresh]

Time for Chenpeachment....

[Hardrock69]

Originally posted by FORD
This is actually good news.....

If the DICK is not part of the executive branch, then he is not protected by "executive priviledge".

Which means its time to prosecute the motherfucking treasonous son of a bitch.

I sent that notion to Waxman care of his office for his district.

His district just happens to be the RICH district in California.
Beverly Hills and surrounding areas.

I told him to go ahead and send the Oversight Committee to Dickhead's office with law enforcement officers and Secret Service agents, and investigate whatever he wants.

And if anyone on Cheney's staff objects, arrest them!

But then, it is pretty cool that he is now looking at charging Dickhead with Contempt Of Congress lol!!
:D

[Hardrock69]

Holy crap! Now Chimpy is claiming his 2003 Executive Order does not apply to himself!!!

Bush claims oversight exemption too
The White House says the president's own order on classified data does not apply to his office or the vice president's.
By Josh Meyer, Times Staff Writer
June 23, 2007

Overseeing the overseers?
Overseeing the overseers?
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WASHINGTON — The White House said Friday that, like Vice President Dick Cheney's office, President Bush's office is not allowing an independent federal watchdog to oversee its handling of classified national security information.

An executive order that Bush issued in March 2003 — amending an existing order — requires all government agencies that are part of the executive branch to submit to oversight. Although it doesn't specifically say so, Bush's order was not meant to apply to the vice president's office or the president's office, a White House spokesman said.

The issue flared Thursday when Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Los Angeles) criticized Cheney for refusing to file annual reports with the federal National Archives and Records Administration, for refusing to spell out how his office handles classified documents, and for refusing to submit to an inspection by the archives' Information Security Oversight Office.

The archives administration has been pressing the vice president's office to cooperate with oversight for the last several years, contending that by not doing so, Cheney and his staff have created a potential national security risk.

Bush amended the oversight directive in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to help ensure that national secrets would not be mishandled, made public or improperly declassified.

The order aimed to create a uniform system for classifying, declassifying and otherwise safeguarding national security information. It gave the archives' oversight unit responsibility for evaluating the effectiveness of each agency's classification programs. It applied to the executive branch of government, mostly agencies led by Bush administration appointees — not to legislative offices such as Congress or to judicial offices such as the courts.

"Our democratic principles require that the American people be informed of the activities of their government," the executive order said.

But from the start, Bush considered his office and Cheney's exempt from the reporting requirements, White House spokesman Tony Fratto said in an interview Friday.

Cheney's office filed the reports in 2001 and 2002 but stopped in 2003.

As a result, the National Archives has been unable to review how much information the president's and vice president's offices are classifying and declassifying. And the security oversight office cannot inspect the president and vice president's executive offices to determine whether safeguards are in place to protect the classified information they handle and to properly declassify information when required.

Those two offices have access to the most highly classified information, including intelligence on terrorists and unfriendly foreign countries.

Waxman and J. William Leonard, director of the Information Security Oversight Office, have argued that the order clearly applies to all executive branch agencies, including the offices of the vice president and the president.

The White House disagrees, Fratto said.

"We don't dispute that the ISOO has a different opinion. But let's be very clear: This executive order was issued by the president, and he knows what his intentions were," Fratto said. "He is in compliance with his executive order."

Fratto conceded that the lengthy directive, technically an amendment to an existing executive order, did not specifically exempt the president's or vice president's offices. Instead, it refers to "agencies" as being subject to the requirements, which Fratto said did not include the two executive offices. "It does take a little bit of inference," Fratto said.

Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists' government secrecy project, disputed the White House explanation of the executive order.

He noted that the order defines "agency" as any executive agency, military department and "any other entity within the executive branch that comes into the possession of classified information" — which, he said, includes Bush's and Cheney's offices.

Cheney's office drew criticism Thursday for claiming that it was exempt from the reporting requirements because the vice president's office is not fully within the executive branch. It cited his legislative role as president of the Senate when needed to break a tie.

At a Friday news conference, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said constitutional scholars could debate that assertion.

But, she said, Cheney's office is exempt from the requirements because the president intended him to be.


Cheney's office did not comment Friday.

Several security experts said they were not aware that the president had exempted his own office from the oversight requirements.

But they said it fit what they saw as a pattern in the administration of avoiding accountability, even on matters of national security.

"If the president and the vice president don't take their own rules seriously, who else should?" said Tom Blanton, director of the National Security Archive, a nongovernmental research institute at George Washington University in Washington that lobbies for open government.

"If they get a blank check, it's a recipe for disaster. I can't think of a quicker way to break down the credibility of the entire security-classification system."

Blanton noted that the White House had acknowledged that a substantial number of in-house e-mails had disappeared in recent years, at a time when investigators wanted to review them for possible evidence of inappropriate leaks of classified information.

"If there are all these great safeguards in place, then where are the e-mails?" Blanton asked.

Waxman, chairman of the powerful House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, wrote an eight-page letter to Cheney on Thursday in which he complained that the vice president had refused to adhere to the executive order. Waxman, citing the criminal investigation of Cheney's office related to the leak of a CIA agent's identity, suggested that the vice president's office was a national security risk.

He also accused Cheney or his staff of trying to have the archives' watchdog unit abolished after its director, Leonard, pressed for more oversight and for a legal opinion from the Justice Department as to whether the executive order applied to the vice president's office.

Perino denied that attempts were made to abolish the unit.

A spokeswoman for the archives, Susan Cooper, would not comment Friday on whether the archives' watchdog unit ever tried to inspect the president's executive office or obtain annual classification reports.

Fratto said that he was not aware of such an effort but that it would be rebuffed. "I'm not going to get into hypotheticals, but the executive order does not grant them that authority," Fratto said.

He noted that the oversight requirements did, however, apply to the National Security Council, the president's principal forum for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security advisors and cabinet officials.

Fratto said that the White House and Cheney's office had a legal obligation to adhere to the executive order's guidelines regarding the proper handling of classified documents, even if they didn't have to submit to oversight by an outside agency.


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-cheney23jun23%2C0%2C863839.story

[blueturk]

Jesus! Isn't ANYTHING these crooked bastards do enough to warrant impeachment? Where the fuck are the Dems? You'd think they would be licking their fucking lips by now! How vaginal are these people?!

"I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 29, 2001

[stringfelowhawk]

Republicans can impeach a president for perjury with little opposition but Democrats are such pussies that they haven't even mentioned it with any real sincerity for the abundance of high crimes and outright treason this administration had committed. How does this happed in America?
How do we continue to allow politicians to rape us of our national pride by playing to their own self interests?
DON'T YOU MAKE THE FUCKING MISTAKE OF SAYING THEY HAVE THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE COUNTRY IN MIND?
These people have corrupted our government to the point that I truly do not believe it will ever recover.

If we don't take back this country we have no right to call ourselves Americans! I think a good way to start is by getting rid of the two party system. We keep the Constitution and Democracy and clean out every politician, political appointee, religious fanatic, lobbyist organization, corporate donors and the lot. Pat Robertson and his entire organization gets investigated like no one else in history. I'm tired of this "faux christian" spreading hate in my country. We make lobbying and earmarks illegal and we stick to the fucking Constitution. Give the states back their powers and if you've ever held a public office you are automatically disqualified from running in this government. It makes me sick to think about just how corrupt this country has become because of the corporate influence placed on politicians who scratch their backs. This country used to be very special and looked upon by the world as a fair and friendly nation, for the most part, willing to lend a hand to any country or foreign government facing a national crisis whether it be a lost sub at sea or natural disaster or whatever. Now everyone is terrified of us and if this line of "leadership" continues it would not surprise me at all if the world decided to do something about it and rid itself of the biggest bully in modern history. Don't you think for a second we could win a war against the world. Not even we could do that.

Prior to the 2000 election I had seriously considered retiring from the military after 20 but when this administration stole the White House I knew I would never get that chance because I refused to take orders from someone I have ZERO respect for and could tell was the most incompetent man to ever sit in the Oval Office. The only thing that lets me sleep at night is knowing I never voted for these criminals and as "Hacking Democracy" showed they were never elected in the first place. I hope I live long enough to watch them all tried and convicted for every crime they've committed. Prison is too good for them. I would love to just drop these clowns off in the desert in Iraq with no food, water, weapons or anything and watch them suffer the same torture they've allowed and promoted on those we've captured. Or better yet the poetic justice of being labeled an "enemy combatant" and imprisoned indeffinately without trial or counsel. To become a victim of your own law is the perfect justice IMHO.

[Nitro Express]

Do these guys really think we are that stupid. Well Dick what branch is the Vice President part of? Congress? I don't think so. The Supreme Court. No. That leaves the executive branch and even you're tittle says you are part of it. Vice President is second in command to the president. Good try asshole.

[Nitro Express]

Mr. Dick Chenney better dust off a copy of the US Constituition and read Article II:

Article. II.

Section. 1. The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows

Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.

[Nitro Express]

"He shall hold his office during the Term of four Years, and, TOGETHER with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows.

Sorry dude but you are TOGETHER with the monkey.

[Nickdfresh]

:mad: Dickpeachment! Now!

[Nitro Express]

The gual they have. They sit there and tell us to bow to them and write their own rules. I say throw them in Guantanimo Bay for treason!

[ace diamond]

Originally posted by FORD
This is actually good news.....

If the DICK is not part of the executive branch, then he is not protected by "executive priviledge".

Which means its time to prosecute the motherfucking treasonous son of a bitch.

ford......for once i completely agree with you.

[stringfelowhawk]

You folks should go on over to impeachcheney.org and sign the petition to proceed the articles of impeachment against him.

I did and left them a nice little comment in a respectful way.

As a former member of the United States Navy that received an "Honorable Discharge" I find it disheartening that the oath I swore upon enlistment has been cheapened by the overt actions of the highest offices in our government. It is especially "heart wrenching" to know the elected officials the people of this country elected to rebut and "oversee" those men have decided that a majority of this country is ignorant by allowing these same men to trample our Constitution, steal our civil liberties, and continue to operate "above the law." How can a president be impreached for perjury while another president and vice president continue to break the law and abuse the power of their office with "NO" consequences. Have we truly become a fascist society? Questioning our government is now considered damaging to national security and heaven forbid we attempt to hold elected officials accountable. How have we gone from democratic country to a corrupt empire? I have long believed it is time to start our government over by keeping our Constitution and our democracy and scuttling the two party system as I have lost all confidence in the politicians that run it. This latest abuse by the Vice President who has all but stated verbally he is "above the law" was the final straw for me. This Vice President and this President passed the point of impeachment many broken laws ago. It is now time to indict and convict these criminals for high crimes. It is now time for you to start listening to the people that got you elected. It is time you stand up for the "peice of paper" I swore I would defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic. And it is time you act before we end up in another war. In closing I ask that you sincerely investigate Halliburton and all companies that are profiting from this useless war. I did my duty and now I ask you to do yours. A request that no citizen should be required to verbalize.

[Hardrock69]

LMFAO!!!

Now they are planning on cutting off all funding for Dickhead Cheney's office! :D

Democrats plan to cut Cheney out of executive funding bill
Josh Catone
Published: Saturday June 23, 2007

Following Vice President Dick Cheney's assertion that his office is not a part of the executive branch of the US government, Democratic Caucus Chairman Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) plans to introduce an amendment to the the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill to cut funding for Cheney's office.

The amendment to the bill that sets the funding for the executive branch will be considered next week in the House of Representatives.

"The Vice President has a choice to make. If he believes his legal case, his office has no business being funded as part of the executive branch," said Emanuel in a statement released to RAW STORY. "However, if he demands executive branch funding he cannot ignore executive branch rules. At the very least, the Vice President should be consistent. This amendment will ensure that the Vice President's funding is consistent with his legal arguments."

At a press briefing yesterday, White House Deputy Press Secretary Dana Perino said that Cheney's assertion that he operates outside of the executive branch of government was "an interesting constitutional question that people can debate" and a "non-issue."

On Thursday, Emanuel suggested that if Cheney feels his office is not part of the executive branch "he should return the salary the American taxpayers have been paying him since January 2001, and move out of the home for which they are footing the bill."

Emanuel also released the following graphic satirizing the situation:

http://www.rawstory.com/images/other/emanuel-cheney-graphic.jpg


http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Democrats_plan_to_cut_Cheney_out_0623.html

[EAT MY ASSHOLE]

I have believed for some time now that the United States has needed a fourth branch of government . All in all, a very good thing. Indeed.

[knuckleboner]

hell, i thought cheney was a member of the military...

http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/pix/cheney-rifle_cp_9498610.jpg

[Hardrock69]

Nahh...in that photo he was demonstrating how he shot that guy in Texas...
:rolleyes:

[knuckleboner]

(um...yeah, that's what i was referring to. i just couldn't find a photo of him actually shooting his friend...;))