Former Vice President Dick Cheney refuses to send his records to the future Bush Library at Southern Methodist University. Described as "The most dangerous Vice President we've had" by current Vice President Joe Biden, Cheney created a long list of abuses of authority that violate the principals of the Constitution, and checks and balances of the three branches of the Government during his "reign" as Vice President. They include:

· Claiming to wield executive privilege independent of the President of the United States, and making extravagantly petty claims of secrecy. For example, he orders the Secret Service to destroy logs of visitors to his residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington despite the 1978 Presidential Records Act that is contrary to his demand

· In 2003 President Bush signed an Executive Order 12958 that requires agencies and "any other entity" within the executive branch to report to a division of the National Archives on their classification and declassification activities. But, since 2003, Cheney's office points to his position as the President of the Senate to justify his refusal to comply

· During one of his refusals to comply with classified documents, Cheney deems the Office of the Vice President to be a hybrid branch of government that is both executive and legislative, which becomes his reason for non-compliance

·  Cheney's lawyer, David Addington, claims that Congress lacks any authority to examine Cheney’s behavior on the job. This is claimed specifically in response to requests from by Congressional Democrats for David Addington, Cheney's chief of staff, to testify about his involvement in the approval of interrogation tactics used at Guantanamo Bay. Coincidentally, Jay Bybee, a Mormon who graduated from the J. Reuben Clark School of Law at BYU, drafted the “Bush Torture Policy”, Cheney's wife is Mormon and his son works in Salt Lake City

· Cheney’s Lawyer states that Cheney's conduct is "not within the [Congressional] Committee's power of inquiry", and "Congress lacks the constitutional power to regulate by law what a vice-president communicates in the performance of the vice president's official duties, or what a vice president recommends that a president communicate”.

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