Cheny and classification/declassificaion

Cheney's office is, apparently, exempt from all rules of government.

The Swamp - Chicago Tribune - Blogs.:

"The government slowed down somewhat last year in the classification of top secret and confidential information, and it also declassified slightly more documents than had been opened up the year before.

But the numbers still rank among record-levels: With 14 million decisions made last year to classify information, a slight decline from the 2004 record, and 29.5 million pages declassified last year -- far fewer than the 100 million pages declassified in 2001. And once again, Vice President Dick
Cheney, who has refused to report on his office's classification activities since 2003, is missing from the count.

Despite an executive order signed by President Bush in 2003 requiring all agencies or 'any other entity within the executive branch that comes into the possession of classified information,' to report on its activities, the vice president's office maintains that it has no legal obligation to report on its classification decisions."