06.23.07 5:00 AM CDT
• Politics
• Jamie Malanowski
The other day we blogged about President Bush and how he was using signing statements to rather high-handedly exempt himself from parts of laws he didn’t like. Now it turns out, not at all unexpectedly, that Vice President Cheney, Bush’s personal Lord Voldemort, is further expanding the frontiers of executive do-whatever-the-fuck-we-wantism.In an article in The Washington Post, Peter Baker reports that Cheney has for the last four years refused to comply with an executive order governing the handling of classified information. Moreover—shades of the Saturday Night Massacre—he tried to abolish the office that sought to enforce those rules.
Cheney has famously tried to keep secret the names of energy industry executives whose views he sought when crafting the nation’s energy policy, but as it turns out, he has really tried to keep everything he does a secret. In doing so, he’s defying an executive order—an order from Bush!
Cheney’s excuse? He says that order applied to executive branch agencies, but not to him.
It might be funny if it wasn’t so frightening.
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