Cheney Defiant on Classified Material

Vice President Cheney's office has refused to comply with an executive order governing the handling of classified information for the past four years and recently tried to abolish the office that sought to enforce those rules, according to documents released by a congressional committee yesterday.
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Peter Baker

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Dick Cheney

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