Subpoenaing Cheney's Office

I'm glad that the Senate Judiciary Committee has finally decided to subpoena Cheney's office. It's about damn time. I read an article in the New York Times regarding Cheney's decision to try and eliminate the Information Security Oversight Office, an office headed by the National Archives. The Information Security Oversight Office looks over any classified documents that were created by, in this case, Cheney and Cheney's staff, and after Cheney repeatedly resisted oversight, the Oversight Office objected. Shortly after, Cheney suggested annuling the Office.

Representative Henry A. Waxman (D-Ca), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, or the Oversight Committee, for short, thought the idea was absurd. Simply because Cheney wanted the office abolished did not mean that he had the right to "unilaterally [exempt] his office from Executive Order 12958, [Classified National Security Information][,] which establishes a uniform, government-wide system for classifying, safeguarding, and declassifying national security information".

The New York Times quoted Henry A. Waxman as having said, "'I know the vice president wants to operate with unprecedented secrecy. But this is absurd. This order is designed to keep classified information safe. His argument is really that he’s not part of the executive branch, so he doesn’t have to comply'". C'mon, Dick, this isn't even arguable, how are you NOT part of the executive branch? You're the Vice President of the United States of America!