Cheney's Office Declares Exemption From Secrecy Oversight

[kpete]

Cheney's Office Declares Exemption From Secrecy Oversight
By Michelle Chen
The NewStandard

Wednesday 07 June 2006

Thickening the haze of secrecy surrounding the executive branch, the Office of Vice President Dick Cheney has declared itself exempt from a yearly requirement to report how it uses its power to classify secret information.

In its 2005 report to the president released last month, the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO), a branch of the National Archives, provides a quantitative overview of hundreds of thousands of pages of classified and declassified documents. But the vice president's input consists of a single footnote explaining that his office failed to meet its reporting requirements for the third year in a row.

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"It's part of a larger assertiveness by the Office of the Vice President and a resistance to oversight," said Steve Aftergood of the Project on Government Secrecy, a division of the public-interest association American Federation of Scientists. "It's as if they're saying, 'What we do is nobody's business.'"

Though not the only government entity to shrug off the reporting duties, Cheney's office is unique in that it has actually issued a public justification for its non-compliance. Cheney's office argued on Monday that its dual role in the federal government places it above the reporting mandate.

more at:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060706C.shtml
http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/3261

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. Ha, ha, ha, hee- hee ho-ho, har, har, hardy, har, har, yuck, yuck, cahuck.

Don't laugh. They'll probably get away with it.

[movonne]

6. They will get away with this...to many higher ups could get caught

in this one...I really don't think we have any say in what is going on in this country right now..

[The Backlash Cometh]

12. We've been couped up the ass.

Whaddya mean IF we become a dictatorship?

[Kikosexy2]

2. Why doesn't..

God answer our prayers and turn this evil's ticker off...

[atreides1]

3. What makes you think he hasn't?

[Kikosexy2]

5. Because...

it's still alive and reeking evil abounds..

4. ship him off to Siberia - he is a traitor

[Skidmore]

7. Cheney makes Nixon look like an amateur nutjob.

Cheney is up in the leagues with your basic Eastern European dictator or your basic South American banana republic strongman. He and Khaddafi must have been separated at birth.

[spanone]

8. Cheney wipes his ass on our Constitution once again.

[robbedvoter]

9. Only fair. He selected himself for VP, why shouldn't he decide

what his prerogatives are?
It's good to be the king!

[Az_lefty]

10. I declare myself exempt from paying federal taxes...

fuck'em

[WiseButAngrySara]

16. Time for a Boston Tea Party at a whole new level, IMO. ....n/t

[ContraBass Black]

11. Cheney to America: "You're not the boss of me."

Let's prove him wrong.

[malaise]

13. These people are fugging mad n/t

[H2O Man]

14. This is more evidence

of Cheney's "shadow government."

[aasleka]

15. WHY aren't our party representatives screaming

Checks and Balances!! before and after every statement....


That simple message trumps any abortion or gay marriage amendment for any US citizen...

We all know the importance of that simple principle.

Checks and balances,, gone....

[file83]

17. Cheney: "I'm the DECIDER, and I decide I'm EXEMPT!!"

[WhiteTara]

18. this is beyond the pale

he sends a note that says too bad, so sad and fuck you? When will someone have the balls to arrest this man?
:grr: :argh: :nuke: