Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Cheney's lawyer to Secret Service: eliminate logs at Dick's house.



From Thinkprogress:

“A lawyer for Vice President Dick Cheney told the Secret Service in September to eliminate data on who visited Cheney at his official residence, a newly disclosed letter states.”

The Sept. 13, 2006, letter from Cheney’s lawyer says logs for Cheney’s residence on the grounds of the Naval Observatory are subject to the Presidential Records Act.
The Justice Department filed the letter Friday in a lawsuit by a private group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, seeking the identities of conservative religious leaders who visited Cheney at his official residence.

The newly disclosed letter about visitors to Cheney’s residence is accompanied by an 18-page Secret Service document revealing the agency’s long-standing practice has been to destroy printed daily access lists of visitors to the residence.

Separately, the agency says it has given Cheney’s office handwritten logs of who visits him at his personal residence.

UPDATE: Such unethical secrecy is not new for the Vice President. In 2005, the Center for Public Integrity discovered that “Cheney and his staff have been unilaterally exempting themselves from long-standing travel disclosure rules followed by the rest of the executive branch, including the Office of the President.”

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

can you imagine what historians will have to say about these jerks

KittyBowTie1 said...

OK, so which one of these stories is Surprise #2?

SP Biloxi said...

LOL! Yeah right. The actual secret is an animal that shall be nameless who needs to get his teeth clean, lose some weight, and quit eating bon bons with his owner. Can you get the mystery animal that I referring to? ;-)

"can you imagine what historians will have to say about these jerks"
or laughing their ass off to why we put a moron and daddy warbucks in office twice?

Anonymous said...

And Cheney using Air Force One for a Duck Hunting trip, what this guy is getting away from in the article, that we as taxpayers are paying for, this guy is the most arrogant, relentless, corrupt individual in the White House.