[Perfect subject line. As one commentator complains, too bad the article wasn't published 6 1/2 years ago.]
[Fun list from Today's Papers on How Secret Is He:]
http://www.slate.com/id/2169002/fr/nl/
TP's Top Five List ... The top five most secretive things about Dick
Cheney from the WP lead:
5. "In the usual business of interagency consultation, proposals and
information flow into the vice president's office from around the
government, but high-ranking White House officials said in interviews
that almost nothing flows out."
4. "Man-size Mosler safes, used elsewhere in government for classified
secrets, store the workaday business of the office of the vice
president."
3. "Even talking points for reporters are sometimes stamped 'Treated
As: Top Secret/SCI.' "
2. "Cheney declines to disclose the names or even the size of his
staff, generally releases no public calendar and ordered the Secret
Service to destroy his visitor logs." (Three in one!)
1. "His general counsel has asserted that 'the vice presidency is a
unique office that is neither a part of the executive branch nor a part
of the legislative branch,' and is therefore exempt from rules
governing either."