Travelgate 2: Revenge of the Sneer. WaPo:
...Cheney has given 23 speeches to think tanks and trade organizations and 16 at academic institutions since 2001 -- apparently all at taxpayers' expense.
"[I]t appears that his office labels them 'official travel,' " the [Center for Public Integrity] said. "As a result . . . the public is kept largely unaware of where he and his staff are traveling, with whom they are meeting and how much it costs, even though tax dollars are covering the bill."
"Largely unaware" is an almost complimentary way to describe the borderline catatonic American public.