Cheney says he’s in government’s legislative branch – Cox (6/22/07):

Vice President Dick Cheney, in resisting routine oversight of his office’s handling of classified information, says that his office isn’t actually part of the government’s executive branch.

In a simmering dispute with the National Archives that heated up Thursday, Cheney has long maintained that he doesn’t have to comply with an executive order on safeguarding classified information because, in fact, his office is part of the legislative branch of government.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., when asked about Cheney’s claim to be part of the legislative branch, quipped: “I always thought that he was president of this administration.”