Sirened

That was what Dick Cheney actually said about Iraq over two years ago. Did he really believe that? I don’t think so, he is far from stupid. Here we are two years later, with more troops, stuck in a war that is already lost.

The thing Dick Cheney does best is keep secrets and nothing angers him more than any kind of transparency, even when that in itself is a secret. He has recently come under fire from the National Archives for refusing to give them documents for the simple sake of record keeping. By law, the executive branch is required to give the National Archives classified information, but Cheney has not done so since 2002. The Chicago Tribune initially broke this story and Cheney has since argued that he is not a part of the executive branch since he performs legislative duties. But in 2002 he invoked executive privilege when he refused to name names in secret meetings he held with energy executives. So essentially he has proclaimed himself a fourth branch of government-The Cheney Branch.

Congressman Rahm Emanuel, an Illinois Democrat has suggested that funding for Cheney’s office be cut off until he officially decides which branch of government he is apart of. But apparently the secrecy of his branch is imperative to national security.

This is a great article in the NY Times outlining a great deal of the farce that this is, but the last paragraph is just classic “Cheney spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride said it was not ‘necessary to go through the law and history’ of the vice president’s role because Bush had already decided that Cheney does not need to provide the records.” That’s awesome! The ‘Decider’ decided and therefore it is law!

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