>> Vice President Dick Cheney is claiming that, for the purposes of securing classified information, his office is not part of the executive branch. Exactly which branch are you in then, Mr. Vice President? [Raw Story] >> Are you ready for another severe thunderstorm alert? The National Weather Service just issued one from now until 10 p.m. >> There’s a book launch party tonight for Murray Waas’ The United States vs. I. Lewis Libby. Somehow…

If you’re into the Washington City Paper, approach this week’s issue with care — it’s not a quick read. This week the city’s premiere alternative weekly profiles investigative journalist Murray Waas, using some 21,514 words over the course of three articles to attack his journalistic standards and detail a long-running feud between the paper’s staff and Waas. If that many words don’t mean much to you, think of it this way — only 11,000 or…

When Mayor-elect Adrian Fenty announced last week that he’d chosen Cathy Lanier, a 16-year veteran of the Metropolitan Police Department, to replace Charles Ramsey atop the police force, local media didn’t do much more than throw together a few details on her history and her ideas for fighting crime in the District. The City Paper, though, started digging. The paper trail they uncovered on Lanier makes for relatively interesting reading by City Paper standards, though…