5 Worst VP’s of All Time – And the Winner Is…

1 – Dick Cheney

History is still being written about Dick Cheney, but here’s some of the things we know so far.

• Shot Friend in the Face
• Exposed Name of CIA Agent to get revenge on her husband
• Lied about Iraq’s WMD’s
• Lied about Iraq’s connection to 911 (there was none)
• Planned to dress US Marines as Iranians and fake an attack on US Navy
• Shady sweetheart (no-bid) deals with former company Haliburtan
• Abu Ghraib and the use of torture on prisoners of war
• Gitmo
• Fourth Branch of Government argument

Seriously I don’t have time or expect you do either for me to go into all of these reasons why Dick is #1 with a bullet on our list of 5 Worst US Vice Presidents of all time. Let’s just take a look at the great “Fourth Branch of Government argument” scandal.

Back in the summer of 2007 a little known arm of the government, the Information Security Oversight Office, ISOO, requested some information from Dick Cheney. Dick, being a dick, didn’t respond to their request, claiming he was “exempt.”

Here’s what Time Magazine wrote in June of 2007:

Cheney’s office, according to a story first reported by the Chicago Tribune, has resisted attempts by a tiny federal agency to compile information — in accordance with an executive order signed by George Bush himself — on the classified documents being held by the Vice President’s operation. Cheney’s office argued that the Vice President’s office, because it has both executive and legislative branch duties, is exempt from the order.

Essential Cheney claimed he was above the law, and outside of it, a fourth branch of government, not Executive, not Legislative nor Judicial; just evil.

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