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Date: June 23, 2007 9:00:24 PM PDT
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Subject: Who's Your REAL Daddy?
BY RICHARD SISK
New York Daily News, June 23rd 2007, 4:00 AM
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/
2007/06/23/2007-06-23_cheneys_secret_pass_.html
WASHINGTON - The White House struggled to explain yesterday why
President Bush complies with rules and oversight on secret
documents but Vice President Cheney doesn't.
There were also no answers about why Cheney followed the rules in
2001 and 2002 but [only] began stonewalling on documents in 2003 as
the CIA leak case was breaking and weapons of mass destruction were
not to be found in Iraq.
"I will check into it," White House deputy press secretary Dana
Perino said. "I don't know when - I don't know why the change, and
I'll see if there was any different interpretation."
But Perino denied that Cheney tried to abolish the government
office charged with safeguarding documents, which was hounding him
for access.
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Oversight
Committee, disclosed Thursday that Cheney was refusing what had
been routine requests from the Information Security Oversight
Office of the National Archives about his handling of classified data.
Bush's order requires executive agencies to report the number of
times they classify material and the number of pages they declassify.
Perino said Bush fully meets the requirements of his own executive
order on disclosure to the Archives, but she suggested that Bush
had given Cheney an exemption.
"The President gets to decide whether or not he [Cheney] should be
treated separately, and he's decided that he should," Perino said.
Cheney has often cited executive privilege, due to holding office
in the [executive branch], as reason to reject requests from
Congress. But he also claims that because he presides over the
legislative branch, as president of the Senate, he is exempt from
the [obligations] of the executive branch.
Perino said Cheney is "not exempt from following the laws of the
U.S. He's exempt just from this reporting requirement in this
particular executive order."
The Archives has asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to order
Cheney to comply, but the Justice Department has yet to rule.
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