“In an extraordinary internal challenge

to the unruly Office of the Vice President,” the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) has formally petitioned the Attorney General to direct Cheney’s office “to comply with a requirement that executive branch organizations disclose statistics on their classification and declassification activity to ISOO. For the last three years, Cheney’s office has refused to divulge its classification statistics to ISOO, despite a seemingly explicit requirement that it do so.”