Back in the Executive Branch

Politico, D.C.'s third most accurate daily political newspaper, is reporting that the administration is done trotting around the canard that Dick Cheney can ignore Executive Orders because he's not part of the Executive Branch.

Dick Cheney's office is abandoning a justification for keeping the Vice-President's secret papers out of the hands of the National Archives.

Officials working for Cheney had tried to claim he is separate from the executive branch, but they will no longer pursue that defense.

Well fine, but what does this mean? Does it mean that Cheney has seen the light and will now conduct himself and his office in a tempered way and that he'll invite the Information Security Oversight Office and other watchdog groups over to have a look around? Does it mean they're going to find some sort of new excuse for continuing their policies of obstruction? Or are they just going to retreat to the Nixon-era strategy of flouting the law in secret? I'm no clairvoyant, but my instincts are telling me both of the latter two.