Thread: Whats Good For Cheney Is Good For Bush

The White House said Friday that, like Vice President Dick Cheney's office, President Bush's office is exempt from a presidential order requiring government agencies that handle classified national security information to submit to oversight by an independent federal watchdog," the Los Angeles Times will report Saturday, RAW STORY has learned. Excerpts:
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"The executive order that Bush issued in March 2003 covers all government agencies that are part of the executive branch and, although it doesn't specifically say so, was not meant to apply to the vice president's office or the president's office, a White House spokesman said.
The issue flared up Thursday when Rep. Henry A. Waxman, D-Calif., criticized Cheney for refusing to file annual reports with the National Archives and Records Administration, spelling out how his office handles classified documents, or to submit to an inspection by the archives' Information Security Oversight Office.
The archives, a federal agency, has been pressing the vice president's office to cooperate with its oversight efforts for the past several years, contending that by not doing so, Cheney and his staff have created a potential national security risk.
Bush issued the directive in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks as a way of ensuring that the nation's secrets would not be mishandled, made public, or improperly declassified.
Read the full story here.

While I understand the fear of national secrets being released (thank you media,) this is just crap. There is no reason why this information cannot be released to the highest security level and then filtered down removing all classified information to the lower levels.

Cheney shoots old men in the face with a shotgun while drunk.
This man is leading our country. kudos right wingers.

With transparency comes accountability. We can not tolerate that in Amerika!

Originally Posted by UsedRugs

Cheney shoots old men in the face with a shotgun while drunk.
This man is leading our country. kudos right wingers.

That's why I call the pair of dufuses George The Monkey and Shotgun Dick

Amazing... Americans think their leader is great when he runs around with guns, the French thougth their leader was great because he had a wife and a mistress! Difference in view on life....

Bush and Cheney prove, once again, that they believe they are above the law.

Originally Posted by Vortex

Bush and Cheney prove, once again, that they believe they are above the law.

We are a nation of laws. When our leader does not follow them.
Do we have too?

Originally Posted by GOPrapesUSA

We are a nation of laws. When our leader does not follow them.
Do we have too?

Maybe that explains some of the lawlessness that we see on streets these days.

Originally Posted by Vortex

Bush and Cheney prove, once again, that they believe they are above the law.

Seems that 95% of DC have that disease. Sweep house, start over.

Here is the LA Times story:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-cheney23jun23,1,2991960.story?coll=la-headlines-nation