Information Security Oversight Office

Cost Of Cheney's Executive Office: $4.75 Million
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Reacting to the Office of the Vice President’s assertion that it is not an “entity within the executive branch,” Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) will introduce an amendment this week to cut off funding to Cheney’s office. Last night on MSNBC, he was asked how much money is spent on Vice President Cheney for an executive office he claims he’s not apart of:

MATTHEWS: Do you know, Congressman, how much money — how much money is spent by the taxpayer to give this guy a huge operations staff, a huge policy staff? He’s got travel all over the world. Do you know how big a budget he has right now?

Bush claims oversight exemption too

The White House says the president's own order on classified data does not apply to his office or the vice president's.

LA Times
Josh Meyer, Times Staff Writer

June 23, 2007

Overseeing the overseers?
WASHINGTON — The White House said Friday that, like Vice President Dick Cheney's office, President Bush's office is not allowing an independent federal watchdog to oversee its handling of classified national security information.

Cheney Power Grab: Says White House Rules Don't Apply to Him
Vice President Dick Cheney

ABCNews
by Justin Rood
June 21, 2007

Vice President Dick Cheney has asserted his office is not a part of the executive branch of the U.S. government, and therefore not bound by a presidential order governing the protection of classified information by government agencies, according to a new letter from Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., to Cheney.