Wait… What?
4 comments June 23rd, 2007at 12:30am Posted by Eli
Apparently the President isn’t part of the executive branch either:
“The White House said Friday that, like Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, President Bush’s office is exempt from a presidential order requiring government agencies that handle classified national security information to submit to oversight by an independent federal watchdog,” the Los Angeles Times will report Saturday, RAW STORY has learned. Excerpts:
“The executive order that Bush issued in March 2003 covers all government agencies that are part of the executive branch and, although it doesn’t specifically say so, was not meant to apply to the vice president’s office or the president’s office, a White House spokesman said.”
Who knew?
So… if neither Bush nor Cheney are actually in the executive branch, then who has all this accumulation of unitary executive power been for?
Entry Filed under: Bush,Cheney,Constitution,Corruption/Cronyism
4 Comments
1. whig | June 23rd, 2007 at 2:19 am
Karl Rove. :)
2. Ruth | June 23rd, 2007 at 6:13 am
Having listened to the White House presser yesterday in which Perino maintained continually that it was the cretin in chief’s executive order and he was the decider (Okay, the decider wasn’t her words), it would seem that the c-i-c is establishing a principle of not being responsible even for his own edict. That would mean that all those signing statements are also inactive if they prove inconvenient. We now have government by Whim. Or Whatever I Say At The Moment Goes.
They’re more than dangerous, they’re mentally incontinent.
3. Karin | June 23rd, 2007 at 8:59 am
They meant to include it in the executive order. This is what happens when you use attorneys from Regent University.
And since I’m not being stranger, let me add, off topic, this is right up your alley, photography-wise: Eugene de Salignac (1861-1943) served as photographer for the New York City Department of Bridges/Plant and Structures for the first three decades of the 20th century. His tens of thousands of striking images of New York’s bridges, buildings, roads, and subways document the emergence of the modern city, while at the same time providing a unique aesthetic vision of the built environment and the people who created it.
Sounds like your dream job.
4. Eli | June 23rd, 2007 at 9:22 am
Maybe Dubya forgot to add a signing statement to the Executive Order?
Karin, that sounds awesome. I wish fourlegs and I had known about that when we were in town.