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I am highly amused by Dick Cheney's defense of being in an indefinite state.

When Dick Cheney is in the office of veep, he exists in a state of half-executive and half-legislative until observed by a congressional committee. He's Schroedinger's Dick.

...in a box?

Not so much a box, but an undisclosed location. The principal is the same though, his wave function doesn't collapse until he's investigated.