I thought I might run a spot-check as to whether or not Dick Cheney's claim to be immune to legislative oversight on the grounds that his office isn't really part of the executive branch was genuinely as crazy as it appeared to be. Surfed over to the old
Volokh Conspiracy and the answer is . . .
yes! Orin Kerr agrees that this is absurd.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/06/and-the-winner-is/42866/