Cheney tried to nix agency targeting him

NY Times:

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, according to documents released yesterday by a Democratic congressman.

And on to the utterly absurd:

Rawstory:

Cheney tells agency that Vice President's office is not part of the executive branch
The Office of Vice President Dick Cheney told an agency within the National Archives that for purposes of securing classified information, the Vice President's office is not an 'entity within the executive branch' according to a letter released Thursday by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

So which branch of our government IS Cheney a part of? The Unitary Executive Branch?? Perhaps it might do him some good to read the Constitution instead of shredding it.