Well, well, well….
Look how much the Bush Administration has spent for paper-shredding over the past few years.
Each bar off the vertical axis represents $500,000 dollars.
In 2000, the feds spent $452,807 to make unpleasant truths go away; by 2006, the "Cheney Effect" had bumped that number up to $2.9 million. And by halfway through 2007, the feds almost matched that number, with $2.7 million and counting. Pretty much says it all.