So EmptyWheel Today Shows Us How Cheney Screwed Tangerine, And Aided Biden -- In The "Secret Documents" Cases...

It centrally involves Trump's lawyer, Evan Corcoran -- and it is a rather convoluted federal statutory construction tale, to be sure.

But Dick Cheney sought, post 2003 (and Valerie Plame's outing), to make it harder for the executive offices to get into dutch for going after political opponents with what might be classified government information. But in the process, he made the penalties worse, for executives who willingly refuse to return classified materials, while more widely freeing up their use, if properly declassified, even by the same executive.

Do go read all of EW, as it is a rollicking good tale -- but here's the punchline (Dark Brandon wins this round!):

...But there’s good reason to believe that Corcoran’s arguments about Trump — for the little they’re worth — would apply equally to Biden as to Trump, thanks, in part, to Dick Cheney.

How about them apples, huh?....

And so -- thanks, Mr. Cheney -- you could not have known, two decades ago that you'd be helping Joe Biden -- and jamming Trump... but I suspect you are not unhappy about Trump... being jammed.

Sweet!