Cheney Is Told to Keep Official Records

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/20/AR2008092001627.html?hpid=topnews


A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction yesterday ordering Vice President Cheney and the National Archives to preserve all of his official records.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's order came in response to a lawsuit filed this month by the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. The group, joined by several historians and open-government advocates, warned that Cheney might destroy or withhold important documents as the Bush administration winds down if he interprets the Presidential Records Act of 1978 as applying to only some of his official papers.

That, in turn, could deprive historians and the general public of valuable records that illustrate Cheney's role in forming U.S. policy over the past 7 1/2 years, they argued. He is widely considered to be the most influential vice president in history.

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"Those unprotected documents could be transferred to other entities, destroyed, or not preserved, and if any of these events occur, the damage is inherently irreparable; once documentary material is gone, it cannot be retrieved," the judge wrote in her 22-page order.
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like its not gone already

[whistle]

1. Cheney has shredded or burned his official papers already

...and no trail will be left when he leaves office

[lame54]

2. Remember the fire in Cheney's office?...

[leeman67]

3. Yeah, like since when does Cheney follow a judge's orders anyway?

He'll just ignore the judge and dare anyone to do anything about it. I see Bush doing a mass pre-emptive pardon of his entire administration the day before he leaves office (similar to what his daddy did).

[opihimoimoi]

4. Cheney just gave the SALUTE and said FUCK YOU...as he burned more papers

with a SNEER too