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Agency Is Target in Cheney Fight on Secrecy Data

For four years, Vice President Dick Cheney has resisted routine oversight of his office’s handling of classified information, and when the National Archives unit that monitors classification in the executive branch objected, the vice president’s office suggested abolishing the oversight unit…

Why should the National Archive monitor Cheney’s office since they do such a stellar job of handling classified information?

Mr. Waxman added that in May 2006, a former aide in Mr. Cheney’s office, Leandro Aragoncillo, pleaded guilty to passing classified information to plotters trying to overthrow the president of the Philippines.

“Your office may have the worst record in the executive branch for safeguarding classified information,” Mr. Waxman wrote to Mr. Cheney.

Not to mention Scooter Libby Jr., the VP’s former chief of staff who  was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice for lying to a grand jury about revealing the classified identity of a CIA agent who was an expert on weapons of mass destruction.

The lipstick is great, but you might want to skip the make-up

A British biochemist says women who use make-up daily are absorbing almost five pounds of chemicals a year.

On the other hand a spokesman for The Cosmetic, Toiletry and Perfumery Association says all the compounds in make-up are certified to be safe. Spokesmen seem to have a tendency to act like a vending machine, you put in a quarter and the disclaimers pop out.