Cheney Power Grab: Says White House Rules Don't Apply to Him
https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/21/2021/
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Vice President Exempts His Office from the Requirements for Protecting Classified Information
https://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1371
Informant: ranger116
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Waxman decries Cheney security exemption
Norwalk Hour
06/21/07
House Democrats on Thursday denounced Vice President Dick Cheney’s idea of abolishing a government office charged with safeguarding national security information — and criticized him for refusing to cooperate with the agency. Cheney’s office — over the objections of the National Archives — has exempted itself from a presidential executive order that seeks to protect national security information generated by the government, according to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform...
https://tinyurl.com/38kt59
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Cheney Under Fire for Stance on Secrecy
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.
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062207J.shtml
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Waxman
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Vice President Exempts His Office from the Requirements for Protecting Classified Information
https://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1371
Informant: ranger116
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Waxman decries Cheney security exemption
Norwalk Hour
06/21/07
House Democrats on Thursday denounced Vice President Dick Cheney’s idea of abolishing a government office charged with safeguarding national security information — and criticized him for refusing to cooperate with the agency. Cheney’s office — over the objections of the National Archives — has exempted itself from a presidential executive order that seeks to protect national security information generated by the government, according to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform...
https://tinyurl.com/38kt59
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Cheney Under Fire for Stance on Secrecy
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.
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062207J.shtml
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Waxman
rudkla - 21. Jun, 22:43
