Fox pundit: Cheney in 'secured undisclosed bunker of his mind'
Fox News Sunday held a round table discussion this morning regarding Dick Cheney's assertion that he is not part of the executive branch and should thus not be subject to an executive order concerning the handling of classified information by executive offices.
Host Chris Wallace wondered why the Vice President would have decided to stop complying with the executive order in 2003, since he had complied with it prior to then, and former Vice President Al Gore also complied with it.
Conservative pundit Bill Kristol replied that the measure was a "pain in the neck" for the executive staff and argued that there is no reason for archivists from the National Archives to "come investigate the security procedures of the Vice President's office."
"Maybe they have a reason because he stopped complying with the law," shot back panel member Juan Williams.
"There's no law," insisted Kristol.
"Yes. There's an executive order," said Williams. "What you have is, not only is it that there is classified documents, we don't know where they go, what happens to them, emails disappear in this White House, and you say, 'Well, what happened to the emails?' 'Oh no, we have a private account.' This is all a dodge, this is a game in order to keep Dick Cheney in, I guess, some sort of secured undisclosed bunker of his mind."
The following video is from Fox's Fox News Sunday, broadcast on June 24.
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