Don't you know, when it suits Dick, he is not even an employee of the Executive branch of the government? My guess is that little will be left. Perhaps that alone can be used to make the point of how thorougly irresponsible and reprehensible this guy was.

Moreover, lets just watch and see who does and does not come under consideration for AG.

No, it will not be RFK Jr.

No way would he sign off on a hands off position regards war crimes. This one issue is likely to become the sorest point between major Dems in congress and the new admin.

Check out what Andrew Sullivan has to say today regards war crimes.

Don't take away Cheney's files! He is going to need them as he transitions to his new and secure office located deep beneath a Virginia mountain and continues with his long standing pet project Continuity of Government.

This is begninning to sound like an Onion posting.

"Senate Dems issue sternly worded letter to fourth (hidden branch of government)"

We may be lucky to find out what happened but as to being held accountable for fraud, lying, cheating and stealing, nothing is going to happen to these people and Obama has already signaled that.

"I would not want my first term consumed by what was perceived on the part of Republicans as a partisan witch hunt, because I think we've got too many problems we've got to solve."

Democrats are too heavily involved in the wrong doing and the coverups to have it expose them as well.

You don't have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.

Why do they even try? It is starting to be embarrassing. No. It is embarrassing. Spineless bastards them Dems.

Cheney will do whatever he wants because the Dems are too scared to challenge him. I'd love for them to make a surprise move on him right now, but it's not going to happen.

I half believe the conspiracy theories that say Cheney is going to run a shadow foreign policy when he's out of office, using Blackwater and the billions missing from Iraq spending.

Hayden NEEDS to go.

I don't know if you guys realize this, but the committee that Joe Lieberman chairs ("United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs") is in charge of overseeing the National Archives and Records Administration.

Senate Democrats can say whatever they want to the Bush administration, but the likelihood of any consequence for failure to preserve those records is small while Lieberman remains.

Zachary --

Was it the "Dems" who ordered it, or was it CONGRESS acting OFFICIALLY?

This seems like a fine letter that the Senators sent. But one name seems conspicuous by its absence. The Senate has an oversight committee whose jurisdiction includes the Archives of the United States and "government information." That committee is the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. According to published reports, the Senate Democratic Caucus may consider whether to remove the current chairman of that Committee for supporting the nominee of the other party for president. Did Senators Whitehouse, Leahy, Rockefeller, and Feinstein ask Chairman Joe Lieberman to sign this letter? Did he decline? Or did they simply think it wasn't worth the trouble?

It is most difficult for me to come to terms that nothing legal will be done to convict Bush, Cheney and company for their multitude of corruption and wrong doing. However, it is apparent that all time available will be needed to get our economy back on track first and then proceed with the plans for CHANGE the Obama team has promised for All Americans.