you're not paranoid if you have real enemies

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

[from SLATE] Top Five List … The top five most secretive things about
Dick Cheney from the [Washington POST] 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."

--
Jim Devine / "The price one pays for pursuing any profession or
calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side." -- James Baldwin