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Article: With Cheney's Refusal to Follow Executive Order on Classified Information: CREW Asks 'Is the Vice President Creating a Fourth Branch of Government?'

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June 22, 2007
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Contact: Naomi Seligman Steiner of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, +1-202-408-5565

WASHINGTON, June 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In light of new revelations that Vice President Cheney is claiming that his office is not subject to an executive order governing the handling of classified information because as president of the Senate he has both legislative and executive duties, CREW asks if Vice President Cheney is attempting to create a fourth branch of the government?

Under his argument, if Mr. Cheney is not subject to executive branch security requirements, surely he must be subject to Senate rules.

To safeguard sensitive information, in 1987 ...

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