Gonzales fails to rule on Cheney's refusal to allow review of records. There was just no way to see this coming.

Cheney's position so frustrated J. William Leonard, the chief of the Archives' Information Security Oversight Office, which enforces the order, that he complained in January to Gonzales. In a letter, Leonard wrote that Cheney's position was inconsistent with the "plain text reading" of the executive order and asked the attorney general for an official ruling. But Gonzales never responded, thereby permitting Cheney to continue blocking Leonard from conducting even a routine inspection of how the veep's office was handling classified documents, according to correspondence released by House Government Reform Committee chair Rep. Henry Waxman.

My guess is that Gonzales is scared shitless of Cheney.

I mean the man lives off of the blood of babies, you just know he would rip Gonzales into little tiny Hispanic pieces if he tried to tell him what to do.

I actually think that it is laughable that this Leonard guy thought he would get any help from anybody in this administration in dealing with Dick Cheney. He must be new or something.