I don't buy into your allegation that "it's all politics", Bucco. The current flap and media reports may be politics, but the initial design of the program and it's concealment by the Vice President was definitely NOT politics. It was conduct by one branch of government that bordered on, if not crossed the line of illegality.

Forgetting whether the program concealed by Vice President Cheney was ever initiated or not--I don't know at this point. Does anyone think that this type of conduct on the part of the executive branch was what the framers of the Constitution had in mind for the relationship between the legislative and executive branches of government?

Somehow, I think not.