CHENEY: THE FOURTH BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT YOU'VE ALWAYS WANTED!

The Information Security Oversight Office is legally required to inspect Dick Cheney's office to ensure he handles Classified National Security documents in a safe and secure manner. Instead, Dick BLOCKED THE INSPECTION and then attempted to SHUT DOWN the INFORMATION SECURITY OVERSIGHT OFFICE! Henry Waxman, Chairman of the Government Oversight Committee, outlines Dick's refusal to help us PROTECT NATIONAL SECURITY SECRETS in an eight-page letter sent Thursday to the vice president and posted, along with other documentation, on the committee’s Web site. “Your office may have the worst record in the executive branch for safeguarding classified information,” Mr. Waxman wrote to Mr. Cheney. A spokeswoman for Mr. Cheney, Megan McGinn, said, “We’re confident that we’re conducting the office properly under the law.” She declined to elaborate. The executive order, last updated in 2003 and currently under revision, states that it applies to any “entity within the executive branch that comes into the possession of classified information.”Cheney allowed inspections in 2001 and 2002. But beginning in 2003, the Vice President’s office began refusing to supply the information. In 2004, it blocked an on-site inspection by the oversight office that was routinely carried out across the government to check whether documents were being properly labeled and safely stored.