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Cheney in Dispute on Oversight of His Office

By SCOTT SHANE

Published: June 22, 2007

For four years, Vice President Dick Cheney has resisted routine oversight of his office's handling of classified information, and when the office in charge of overseeing classification in the executive branch objected, the vice president's office suggested that the oversight office be shut down, according to documents released today by a Democratic congressman.

The oversight office, a unit of the National Archives, appealed the issue to the Justice Department, which has not yet ruled on the matter.

The effort by Mr. Cheney to shut down the oversight office was disclosed by Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California and chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Mr. Waxman, who has played a leading role in the stepped-up efforts by Democrats since they took control of Congress to investigate the Bush administration, outlined the matter in an eight-page letter sent today to the vice president and posted, along with other documentation, on the committee's Web site.

Cheney In Dispute On Oversight Of His Office

Bush now nearly as unpopular as Nixon

US President George W Bush's approval rating has plunged to a new low of 26 per cent, making him the least popular US president since Richard Nixon.
The Newsweek magazine poll showed that only 26 per cent of Americans approve of the job Mr Bush is doing, marking his lowest level of backing since taking
office in January 2001. "In fact, the only president in the last 35 years to score
lower than Bush is Richard Nixon," the report said.

Bush Now Nearly As Unpopular As Nixon

secret Cheney's business

'A Different Understanding With the President'

By Barton Gellman and Jo Becker
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, June 24, 2007; Page A01

Just past the Oval Office, in the private dining room overlooking the South Lawn, Vice President Cheney joined President Bush at a round parquet table they shared once a week. Cheney brought a four-page text, written in strict secrecy by his lawyer. He carried it back out with him after lunch.

In less than an hour, the document traversed a West Wing circuit that gave its words the power of command. It changed hands four times, according to witnesses, with emphatic instructions to bypass staff review. When it returned to the Oval Office, in a blue portfolio embossed with the presidential seal, Bush pulled a felt-tip pen from his pocket and signed without sitting down. Almost no one else had seen the text.

Cheney's proposal had become a military order from the commander in chief. Foreign terrorism suspects held by the United States were stripped of access to any court -- civilian or military, domestic or foreign. They could be confined indefinitely without charges and would be tried, if at all, in closed "military commissions."

Lower than old uncle tricky Dicky

Poll says Bush 'is worst US president'
Tuesday Sep 4 10:06 AEST

More than half of all Australians believe George W Bush is the worst president in American history, a new poll shows.

The Galaxy poll, commissioned by the Medical Association for the Prevention of War (MAPW), found 52 per cent of Australians believed Mr Bush was the United States' worst-ever president.

Just 32 per cent said he was not, while the remainder were undecided.

MAPW spokesman Robert Marr said it was timely for gauging the Australian public's view of the US president, who will arrive in Sydney for the APEC summit.

"We thought it was important to get an accurate opinion of Australians' views towards President Bush," Dr Marr told ABC radio.

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Gus: see cartoon at the top of this line of blogs... 

Blaming others for his own hubris

Envoy’s Letters Counter Bush on Plan for Iraq
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
Published: September 4, 2007

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 — A previously undisclosed exchange of letters shows that President Bush was told in advance by his top Iraq envoy in May 2003 of a plan to “dissolve Saddam’s military and intelligence structures,” a plan that the envoy, L. Paul Bremer, said referred to dismantling the Iraqi Army.

Mr. Bremer provided the letters to The New York Times on Monday after reading that Mr. Bush was quoted in a new book as saying that American policy had been “to keep the army intact” but that it “didn’t happen.”

Letter from L. Paul Bremer to George W. Bush, May 22, 2003
Letter from George W. Bush to L. Paul Bremer, May 23, 2003

Gus: either Bush is telling more porkies or his memory is failing and we cannot have either — as the world he's created is more unstable that ever... But methink he's just full of his own careless Bushit — nothing new.