Sunday, June 24, 2007
Why is this an issue?
This is an internal executive branch matter dealing with the handling of classified information. It's not a constitutional issue. It's not a congressional issue, despite this reports "input" from the usual Democrat partisans. If the president doesn't direct the vice president to comply with an inferior executive branch office, even though his predecessor issued an executive order covering the entire executive branch, there's no issue. Or, the president could formally issue another executive order modifying the Clinton order and exempting the vice president's office from coverage.
Rather than arguing that the vice president, as president of the Senate, is exempt from coverage, I would have argued that this is a purely internal executive branch issue. Therefore, who cares what Dick Durbin, Rahm Emanuel or the Democrat front group CREW have to say about it.
There's really nothing here.
06/24 09:03 AM
