Based on the revelations garnered from CREW's lawsuit seeking records of visitors to the residence of Vice President Dick Cheney, The New York Times [1] blasted Cheney's penchant for secrecy in an editorial yesterday:

Americans are accustomed to Vice President Dick Cheney’s waiting out a terrorist threat in a “secure undisclosed location.” Now it seems that Mr. Cheney wears the cloak of invisibility in secure disclosed locations.

The Associated Press reported that Mr. Cheney’s office ordered the Secret Service last September to destroy all records of visitors to the official vice presidential mansion — right after The Washington Post sued for access to the logs. That move was made in secret, naturally. It came out only because of another lawsuit, filed by a private group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, seeking the names of conservative religious figures who visited the vice president’s residence.

This disdain for accountability is distressing, but not surprising. Mr. Cheney has had it on display from his first days in office, when he refused to name the energy-industry executives who met with him behind closed doors to draft an energy policy.

The Times editorial states Dick Cheney "has privatized the job of vice president of the United States."  But, it's not a private job.  Dick Cheney is a public servant.  And, CREW wil continue to challenge Cheney's consistent efforts to prevent the nation's laws from applying to him.