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Date: May 31, 2007 3:58:31 PM PDT
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Subject: It's Good to Be the (Co-)King
Cheney lawyer told Secret Service
not to keep visitor logs
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/29/cheney-lawyer-told-secret-
service-not-to-keep-visitor-logs/#comments#comments
“A lawyer for Vice President Dick Cheney told the Secret Service in
September to eliminate data on who visited Cheney at his official
residence, a newly disclosed letter states.”
The Sept. 13, 2006, letter from Cheney’s lawyer says logs for
Cheney’s residence on the grounds of the Naval Observatory are
subject to the Presidential Records Act.
The Justice Department filed the letter Friday in a lawsuit by a
private group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in
Washington, seeking the identities of conservative religious
leaders who visited Cheney at his official residence.
The newly disclosed letter about visitors to Cheney’s residence is
accompanied by an 18-page Secret Service document revealing that
the agency’s long-standing practice has been to destroy printed
daily access lists of visitors to the residence.
Separately, the agency says it has given Cheney’s office
handwritten logs of who visits him at his personal residence.
UPDATE: Such unethical secrecy is not new for the Vice President.
In 2005, the Center for Public Integrity discovered that “Cheney
and his staff have been unilaterally exempting themselves from long-
standing travel disclosure rules followed by the rest of the
executive branch, including the Office of the President.”
§ 2207. Vice-Presidential records
Vice-Presidential records shall be subject to the provisions of
this chapter in the same manner as Presidential records. The duties
and responsibilities of the Vice President, with respect to Vice-
Presidential records, shall be the same as the duties and
responsibilities of the President under this chapter with respect
to Presidential records. The authority of the Archivist with
respect to Vice-Presidential records shall be the same as the
authority of the Archivist under this chapter with respect to
Presidential records, except that the Archivist may, when the
Archivist determines that it is in the public interest, enter into
an agreement for the deposit of Vice-Presidential records in a non-
Federal archival depository. Nothing in this chapter shall be
construed to authorize the establishment of separate archival
depositories for such Vice-Presidential records.
Vice President Refuses to Report Classification Activity
For the fourth year in a row, the Office of Vice President Dick
Cheney has refused to disclose data on its classification and
declassification activity, in apparent violation of an executive
order issued by President Bush.
“The Office of the Vice President (OVP), the President’s Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB), and the Homeland Security
Council (HSC) all failed to report their data to ISOO this year,”
the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) noted in its new
2005 Annual Report to the President
http://www.fas.org/sgp/isoo/2005rpt.pdf
(at page 9, footnote 1).
The Office of the Vice President has declined to report such data
since 2002.
Yet it is clear that disclosure is not optional.
http://www.fas.org/ blog/ secrecy/ 2006/ 05/
vice_president_refuses_to_repo.html
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