Vice President Dick Cheney has exempted his office from a presidential classification order, refusing to make annual reports to the National Archive and turning away classification inspectors, claiming that his office is not an entity within the executive branch, according to letters from the Archive made public today by a Congressional oversight committee. HERE

President Bush has asserted that he is not necessarily bound by the bills he signs into law, and [day before] yesterday a congressional study found multiple examples [over 400] in which the administration has not complied with the requirements of the new statutes. HERE

E-mail records are missing for 51 of the 88 White House officials who had electronic message accounts with the Republican National Committee, the House Oversight Committee said Monday. HERE