Cheney really has some nerve

I heard this report on TV and NPR this morning:

The Senate Oversight Committee has learned that over the objections of the National Archives, Vice President Cheney exempted his office from the presidential order that establishes government-wide procedures for safeguarding classified national security information. The Vice President asserts that his office is not an “entity within the executive branch.” The Vice President's staff proposes abolishing the agency within the National Archives that is responsible for implementing the President's executive order.

On the cable news channel I was listening to (CNN? MSNBC? I forget, since I switch between the two), they reported that this is part of a campaign Cheney has pursued since the 1970s - he asserts that there's too much oversight on the executive branch! The mind boggles. What I find really humorous (if it wasn't too painful to laugh about) is that he claims not to be part of the executive branch, but still has the authority of the executive branch to eliminate this office. You have to admire his complete willingness to suspend all obligation to logic.