Cheney has been making the ridiculous claim that he is not actually a part of the Executve Branch
The reason for this was to help skirt record keeping requirements such as those secret meetings with oil executives.
Well it looks like reality has set in.
According to CNN
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly found that the records are not excluded from preservation under Presidential Records Act, which gives the national archivist responsibility over the custody of and access to the records at the end of a president's final term.
There have been some good folks working on this such as CREW The Committee for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (I know that sounds like an oxymoron).
Well one for the good guys I guess
UPDATE:
From MSNBC
In a 22-page opinion, the judge revealed that in recent days, lawyers for the Bush administration balked at a proposed agreement between the two sides on how to proceed with the case.
Cheney and the other defendants "were only willing to agree to a preservation order that tracked their narrowed interpretation" of the Presidential Records Act, wrote Kollar-Kotelly.
The administration, said the judge, wanted any court order on what records are at issue in the suit to cover only the office of the vice president, not Cheney or the other defendants in the lawsuit. The other defendants include the National Archives and the archivist of the United States.
I'm not sure what they mean by covering the "office" ,but not Cheney? I'm sure
Emptywheel will be all over this one.