While attention is focused on the Veep’s decapitation authority, the real issue of his declassification authority is not getting the attention it deserves. LiberalOasis has a nice analysis. I haven’t checked the original sources personally, but this seems very plausible to me.
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Now this stuff… This is the kind of stuff you can sink your teeth into. None of that pansy-ass ‘the President claims he can kill terror suspects while they eat dinner at TGI Fridays,’ and ‘Cheney’s accidental shooting of man worse than Kennedy leaving a woman to drown while he sobered up’.
This is the stuff impeachments are made of.