The Dick

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The Angler

Across the board, the vice president's office goes to unusual lengths to avoid transparency. 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. 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. Cheney is refusing to observe an executive order on the handling of national security secrets, and he proposed to abolish a federal office that insisted on auditing his compliance.

OK, we realize this guy deserved a break under the Equal Rights for Americans Who are Completely Evil Act, but, isn't it time for him to toddle off to an undisclosed location?

From Henry Waxman's report:

• The White House regularly ignored security breaches. The security officers described repeated instances in which security breaches were reported to the White House Security Office by Secret Service or CIA agents, but were never investigated. In one case, the White House Security Office took no action after receiving a report that a White House official left classified materials unattended in a hotel room. In numerous instances, reports that White House officials left classified information on their desks went uninvestigated.

State secrets you can leave on your bed at Holiday Inn. But, nobody gets to see Dick's Sooper Sekrit schedule, or even the name of the admin who runs the shredder? Good gawd.

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It's obviously been centuries since Loki, er Cheney that is, has taken high school civics class.. he can't be expected to remember all that technical stuff! (sarcasm)

counting the days til 2008!