"'Here's a guy who raises 'executive privilege' to historic levels to exempt himself from all rules and oversight, and now he says he's not part of the executive branch?' said Silverstein. 'Here we have a subordinate part of the executive branch asserting independent constitutional authority even against its own superior. It is flabbergasting.'"The VP neither confirms nor denies he tried to abolish the National Archives' Information Security Oversight Office. National security didn't mean anything to him when it came to outing a CIA officer. Doesn't anyone have oversight over this philistine?
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If a political machine does not allow the people free expression, then freedom-loving people lose their faith in the machinery under which their government functions (re: The Battle of Athens.) ~~~ Eleanor Roosevelt