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Vice President’s Office Exempts Itself From Information Safeguards

Vice President’s Office Exempts Itself From Information Safeguards: Image Article II of the United States Constitution, which covers the executive branch, makes six references to the vice president. And the Office of the Vice President received $5 million in executive branch funding in the 2008 budget. Yet Vice President Dick Cheney has reinterpreted the traditional role of his office, claiming not to be part of that branch. The dispute arose out of an attempt by the National Archives to fulfill its duties under presidential Executive Order 12958; the order directs the archives to establish a uniform, government-wide system for protecting classified national security data. The order further directs the archives to assure compliance with the order by conducting inspections of federal agencies and White House offices. But Cheney’s office blocked an archives inspection, arguing that it is not an “entity within the executive branch” and is therefore exempt from presidential executive orders. J. William Leonard, then-director of the National Archives Information Security Oversight Office, noted in a letter to the U.S. Attorney General that up until 2002 the Office of the Vice President had complied with the rule, and suggested that it should continue to do so. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman charged that the decision was part of a broader effort by the Vice President’s Office to avoid oversight and accountability. "I question both the legality and wisdom of your actions,” Waxman wrote in a letter to the vice president. The White House press office did not respond to a request for comment, but, in 2007, a spokeswoman defended the Vice President, noting: “He's not exempt from following the laws of the United States. He's exempt just from this reporting requirement in this particular executive order.”

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In September, U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelley, ruling in a lawsuit brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, issued a temporary injunction ordering the vice president to preserve all of his official records. That lawsuit is continuing and could yield a permanent order. In July 2007, Democratic Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, proposed that the Senate suspend funds for the Office of the Vice President until it complied with Executive Order 12958. The attempt passed on a 5-4 party-line vote in subcommittee, but the funds were restored on a 15-14 vote in the full committee. The Office of the Vice President continued to refuse to comply with the order and, since 2007, the Information Security Oversight Office has not bothered to request the information from them. On October 22, 2008, Republican presidential nominee John McCain said in an interview, “I don’t agree with Dick Cheney’s allegation that he’s part of both the legislative and the executive branch.”

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