DOJ misled, stonewalled, and hasnow admitted that it is not investigating and will not rule
on the January complaint of the chief of the Archives' Information Security Oversight Office. We're on our own, now folks....Waxman is our only hope....as most of us are "busy" with NASCAR, Baseball, Budweiser, and making sure that we install that <a href="http://www.acehardware.com/product/index.jsp?productId=1787731">MR. Clean Autodry filter </a>on our garden hoses that eliminates water spots when we "towel down" the hood of our "ride"..... DOJ and the AG are totally compromised. Do you think that today, transfer of an investigation, due to an internal judgment of a conflict of interest, like the one transferred to Patrick Fitzgerald by Asst. AG James Comey, would even be considered by this corrupt DOJ management?
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19391241/site/newsweek/
A New Cheney-Gonzales Mystery
Newsweek
July 2-9, 2007 issue
.....Cheney's position so frustrated J. William Leonard, the chief of the Archives' Information Security Oversight Office, which enforces the order, that he complained in January to Gonzales. <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19390442/site/newsweek/">In a letter</a>, Leonard wrote that Cheney's position was inconsistent with the "plain text reading" of the executive order and asked the attorney general for an official ruling. But Gonzales never responded, thereby permitting Cheney to continue blocking Leonard from conducting even a routine inspection of how the veep's office was handling classified documents, according to correspondence released by House Government Reform Committee chair Rep. Henry Waxman.
Why didn't Gonzales act on Leonard's request? <b>His aides assured reporters that Leonard's letter has been "under review" for the past five months—by Justice's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC)</b>. But on June 4, an OLC lawyer denied a Freedom of Information Act request about the dispute asserting that OLC had "no documents" on the matter, according to <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19390650/site/newsweek/Cheney">a copy of the letter obtained by NEWSWEEK</a>. Steve Aftergood, the Federation of American Scientists researcher who filed the request, said he found the denial letter "puzzling and inexplicable"—especially since Leonard had copied OLC chief Steve Bradbury on his original letter to Gonzales. The FOIA response has piqued the interest of congressional investigators, who note Bradbury is the same official in charge of vetting all document requests from Congress about the U.S. attorneys flap. Asked about the apparent discrepancy, <b>Justice spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said the <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19390652/site/newsweek/">OLC response</a> "was and remains accurate" because Leonard's letter had generated no "substantive work product."</b>
Waxman told NEWSWEEK he now plans to investigate the handling of the issue by Justice as well as Cheney's refusal to comply with the executive order, which he called part of a "pattern" of stonewalling by the veep. Cheney spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride said, "We're confident we are conducting the office properly under the law." She also pointed to comments by White House Deputy Press Secretary Dana Perino, who said that Bush, not the National Archives, was the "sole enforcer" of the executive order relating to classified information.
—Michael Isikoff
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