AP reports:
A Senate appropriations panel chaired by Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., refused to fund $4.8 million in the vice president’s budget until Cheney’s office complies with parts of an executive order governing its handling of classified information.
At issue is a requirement that executive branch offices provide data on how much material they classify and declassify. That information is to be provided to the Information Security Oversight Office at The National Archives.
Cheney’s office, with backing from the White House, argues that the offices of the president and vice president are exempt from the order because they are not executive branch ”agencies.”
The funding cut came as the appropriations panel approved 5-4 along party lines a measure funding White House operations, the Treasury Department and many smaller agencies.
2 comments:
AHHHH! At least they're not taking his shit anymore.
Speaking as someone with experience in intelligence matters... Dick's idea that he and Bush are above oversight is an outrage. Then again what has he done that hasn't been an outrage.
Unbelieveably, I just read that this measure did not pass, by ONE VOTE! Sen. Ben Nelson is the latest spineless Democrat on the Hill to cave in to the Bush-Cheney war machine.
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