I just ask why this does not stand out as a GIANT RED FLAG......if there is nothing to hide....why bother....I no longer support impeachment...i now support imprisonment. These people are criminals.
CREW Sues Cheney Over Records - Court Orders VP Chief of Staff to Be Deposed
On September 8th, CREW, along with two eminent historians and three organizations of historians and archivists, filed a complaint against Vice President Cheney, the Office of the Vice President, the archivist and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). CREW's lawsuit alleges that Vice President Cheney is not preserving his papers as required by the Presidential Records Act (PRA). In an executive order issued in 2001, President Bush declared that the PRA applied only to the "executive records" of the vice president.
Since that time, the vice president has made the claim that he is not part of the executive branch. In addition, the archivist has claimed that the congressional records of a vice president are his personal, not presidential, records and that he is free to dispose of them at will. As a result of these unlawful policies, without judicial intervention, on January 20, 2009, the vast majority of Vice President Cheney's records will not be transferred to NARA for eventual release to the public, but instead will remain under the vice president's custody and control. CREW also sought an order mandating preservation of all of the vice president's records pending the lawsuit.
On September 20th, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction requiring Vice President Cheney, the Office of the Vice President, the Executive Office of the President, the archivist and NARA to preserve all vice presidential records.
On September 20th, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction requiring Vice President Cheney, the Office of the Vice President, the Executive Office of the President, the archivist and NARA to preserve all vice presidential records.
Four days later, the court granted CREW's request to take the depositions of David Addington, Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, and Nancy Smith, a NARA official responsible for presidential papers under the PRA. These depositions should help us discover whether critical administration records are being preserved or deliberately lost to future generations.
Finally, just this week, on the eve of the first scheduled deposition, Vice President Cheney and the other defendants took the extraordinary step of filing an emergency petition for a writ of mandamus with the Court of Appeals in order to stop the depositions from going forward.
This latest legal ploy by the White House is an effort to prevent the public from learning the truth about records that belong to the American people.
Read the September 8th complaint:
Finally, just this week, on the eve of the first scheduled deposition, Vice President Cheney and the other defendants took the extraordinary step of filing an emergency petition for a writ of mandamus with the Court of Appeals in order to stop the depositions from going forward.
This latest legal ploy by the White House is an effort to prevent the public from learning the truth about records that belong to the American people.
Read the September 8th complaint:
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