Executive Order 13292, issued by President Bush on March 25, 2003, deals with the handling of classified material. That order was not an entirely new document but was, instead, an amendment to an earlier Executive Order, number 12958, issued by President Bill Clinton on April 17, 1995. Throughout Executive Order 13292, there are changes to the original Clinton order which, in effect, give the vice president the power of the president in dealing with classified material.
So, it would seem that even if the leak of Valerie Plame's name is tied to Cheney, the VP would be legally blameless because of fucking Executive Order 13292.
It makes me wanna puke.
[Sorry folks, I lost some data and had to repost this earlier entry.]
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
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jan said...
Goona puke? You should be careful where you order your chinese.
The outrageous part was him telling the archives who oversees how he handles classified material to go Cheney themselves.
WE know how he handles classified info. He declassifies it to out covert CIA operatives.
Did anyone see any of the hearing today with Joe Wilson? Grand.
July 11, 2007 8:30 PM
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Anonymous said...
[They] believe that any portion of power confided to me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly: for I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. But this is all they have to fear from me: and enough, too, in their opinion.
-- Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush
July 18, 2007 11:58 PM
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Ceroill said...
And now according to Cheney himself, so it seems, the VP office is a strange hybrid beast, neither and both executive or legislative as it suits his purpose.
July 19, 2007 3:54 PM
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Oh, don't you know that the VP is now officially the fourth branch of our three-branched government. It is a chimera-like black operations branch to be used for whatever devious purposes the veep wishes to pursue... oh, wait, until, of course, a Democrat is elected... then it will go back to being part of the executive branch. Can't allow those lefty liberals the same lattitude to do something crazy with the power, like, oh, I don't know, cleaning the air, stopping a war, or improving health care and education...
[By the way, that was sarcasm folks.]
Yep. You know that the republicans are finally starting to get concerned about all this now that election time looms and they might have to live with a Democrat with the same level of executive power as Bush. Not to mention Cheney.
”Who runs the CIA?”
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