Cheney Decides Accountability “No Longer Necessary”

Executive Order 12958 requires the National Archives to conduct inspections of the Vice-Presidents office and for the VP’s office to provide data to Information Security Oversight Office on how much information is classified and declassified. Cheney initially responded to this by trying to abolish the Information Security Oversight Office. When this failed, he declared that the Vice-President is not part of the executive branch of government and therefore does not need to meet these requirement. The White House agreed, saying, “Accountability and Oversight are for douchebags.”

House Democrats responded by saying “”Everything we learned in U.S. government class was wrong. Evidently, the Vice President does not consider himself a part of the executive branch, and therefore believes he can obstruct meaningful oversight and avoid being held accountable.” Fully supporting the notion that Cheney should in no way be associated with the US government, they proposed an amendment to remove executive funding from the Vice-President’s office.