Vice President Cheney Must Preserve Records Despite Defiance
V.P. Cheney has remarkably claimed that the Office of Vice President was not part of the executive branch therefore his records and papers are not subject to the Presidential Records Act in which papers during the President’s and Vice-President’s time in office are safeguarded for public record. Since the Vice President’s Office was not part of the executive branch, according to Cheney, all of his papers are not subject to the records act. A federal judge begged to differ and in a response to a federal lawsuit launched by the private group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, has recently ordered that Cheney must preserve all of his records during his time in office.
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