Posted on 02/22/2012 1:28:58 PM PST by Fractal Trader
President Obama and his West Wing aides ignored a subpoena of documents pertaining to the Solyndra loan guarantee even after congressional investigators met with White House officials to negotiate the scope of the subpoena, according to the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
"The White House's failure to comply with today's document deadline is a sad milestone on the path chosen by this administration to obstruct and delay our investigation rather than cooperate and help deliver answers for taxpayers," committee chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee chairman Cliff Stearns R-Fla., said in a statement this evening.
House investigators requested 12 categories of documents designed to explore a range of issues, such as Obama donor and Solyndra investor George Kaiser's role in the solar company receiving a loan gaurantee.
White House counsel disputed the initial subpoena in November, calling it "a significant intrusion on Executive branch interests." Committee officials met with Obama's attorneys to negotiate the subpoena, but the White House failed to produce the documents by the February 21 deadline.
"Despite an all star cast of presidential aides that have their fingerprints on Solyndra," Upton and Stearns observed, "Larry Summers, Carol Browner, Ron Klain, Valerie Jarrett, David Axelrod, Jim Messina, Dan Pfeiffer, Jay Carney, Cecilia Munoz, -- the White House is having great difficult turning over relevant internal documents."
The investigators said that Obama's aides have not answered questions about the White House role in restructuring the Solyndra loan, who told Solyndra officials to delay announcing layoffs until after the 2010 midterms.
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"How much longer does the White House believe the truth needs to wait?" Upton and Stearns wrote. "The deadline has come, and we will do what is necessary to answer the many outstanding questions surrounding Solyndra."
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ping
Crickets
I’m the F@#$%g president! You don’t subpena me! Who the hell do you think you are?
Isn’t when, in a ‘normal’ situation, the SWAT team breaks down the door fires in tear gas, kills the dog and tasers the perp and carries him to the police station??
Why not ignore it? Republicans has shown there is no penalty for non-compliance.
The f'n US news media needs to be blown up and rebuilt from the ground up with some kind of moral consciousness and sense of obligation to the truth.
Yep! And all the sheepish Republicans do is make noises...nothing else.
The Republican party has been completely neutered and domesticated by Political Correctness.
They don’t represent anyone or anything other than their pitiful, weak and timid selves.
Yeah, I thought Obama was God now. He does not do subpoenas or court appearances. He is the “one” now.
“Why not ignore it? Republicans has shown there is no penalty for non-compliance.”
Unfortunately true.
I’m sick of talk- let’s see some real action.
Bring in the prison busses.
I was waiting for the “other shoe” to drop on Obama. No sense waiting, the pubbies only have one shoe.
I was waiting for the “other shoe” to drop on Obama. No sense waiting, the pubbies only have one shoe.
This is why the Republicans have disillusioned even their own base. Because they won’t take action and do what is right. They are bought and paid for just like the rest. They need to step up and defend the law. But they won’t do it.
Obama 2008 campaign
Obama’s White House learned its negotiating strategies from Sadam Hussein. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
the Solyndra cash heist appears to have been large enough to paper BOTH sides of the aisle and the MSM....leaving FLyover Country effectively un-represented in DC...
Ignore this subpoena at you own peril.
We all know how that works. Don’t we? LOL
No no no... That is the sound of John Boner — er — Boehner weeping because his old golfing bud dissed him again.
What peril? C'mon, let us in on it.
Gee, what a surprise.
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Clean Energy is Dirty
Obama knows he can snub his nose at the states and courts.
Obama knows he can snub his nose at the states and courts.
As well as congress.
If you haven’t, contact your Congressional delegation about this.
It matters. They never lead. They follow us.
...oh
Hail Caesar. NOT.
TOSS THE Czar/Tsar/Caesar SALADIN in 2012
Money laundering ping. Thanks Fractal Trader.
ANOTHER GOP talking point for the election ...
Yep. Back in the day when such an attitude caused a groundswelling outcry and impeachment and/or resignation eventually followed.
You don’t wait for the other shoe to drop on Obama. You do what Tobie Keith sang in “Red, White and Blue”, you put a congressional committee “boot in their ass”, hold them in contempt, and see if they can be arrested by either members of the Capitol Police or U.S. Marshals (there is congressional immunity but I’m not sure about White House flunky immunity).
TIme to start filling the jails and keep it going even after Nov. 6th. The jails ain’t half filled and I want to see perp walks of these arrogant, anti-constitution, elitist communists, crooks, crazies and cronies. (4C or C4).
Come on Upton. Your niece wasn’t afraid to hold back, so why should you.
Can’t this be brought before the Supreme Court? Although I’m not to sure what they would do with or about it.
(shrug) Why shouldn't they? Who's going to do anything about it?
Holder's FBI, lol?
We have been waiting for that other shoe since Clinton it will never drop, because the GOP wears that shoe, so they can’t drop it.
WH Ignores House Subpoena For Solyndra Documents
Thanks, Fractal Trader.
I’m sure the Republican leadership in the House will respond to this Presidential defiance with a strongly-worded letter, which will undoubtedly result in the White House’s immediate compliance with the subpoena.
Unfortunately true/real action
The REPUBS have decided it's hands off for our first Muslim President. Obama WANTS conflict, he wants the idiots to vote for him. He$#, Clinton could have been re-elected.
To give Obama impeachment gives him power to continue the destruction of America. Martial law would be just what the traitor wants, an opportunity for a race war.
>>”The White House’s failure to comply with today’s document deadline is a sad milestone on the path chosen by this administration to obstruct and delay our investigation rather than cooperate and help deliver answers for taxpayers,” committee chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee chairman Cliff Stearns R-Fla., said in a statement this evening.<<
Upton and Stearns then wet their pants and cried. No further action is expected from them.
of course they ignored
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