Forbes.com: Group accuses White House of obstructing Cheney suit: Judicial Watch said its process server went the White House on July 22 to deliver the lawsuit to the vice president, who was chief executive of Halliburton (nyse: HAL - news - people) from 1995 to 2000. But the group said the courier was turned away by the Secret Service and allegedly threatened with arrest.
     "We have served many a lawsuit on Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Hillary Clinton when they were in the White House ... Never before have our process servers been threatened with arrest," said Larry Klayman, who serves as chairman and general counsel of the 8-year-old legal foundation that has filed a number of highly publicized lawsuits against government officials.
     Cheney adviser Mary Matalin dismissed the claims as a public relations stunt and said the lawsuit should have been served on Cheney's private attorney.

"Stunt" it almost certainly was. Nonetheless, given Judicial Watch's specific history, it was almost certainly not the sort of stunt she means. After all, they've served the White House many many many many many MANY times before. They had no reason to expect that the papers would be flatly refused. (In fact, the particular method of refusal is so impressively illegal that both the vice president and the man who allegedly threatened Judicial Watch with arrest should themselves be arrested.)

I don't expect the attempt to get Cheney sanctioned to go anywhere -- I fully expect that after they try this particular stunt a time or two more, the judge will tell them to go to Cheney's lawyer just to get the thing served -- but it ought to be thoroughly amusing to watch and not at all helpful to the administration's efforts to paint this whole mess as pure obstructionism.