Protecting our nation's secrets - why have deadlines passed with no apparent consequences?

Cheney has excused his entire office from oversight under the mistaken impression that he's a fourth branch of government that gets to choose whether it's part of executive branch or the legislative branch on a case-by-case basis. And yet we don't have any indications of progress on the part of the Oversight Committee weeks after the last deadline passed. I asked the Oversight Committee to comment about these issues...