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Posted on 10/14/2011 5:51:26 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Washington (CNN) - Congress isn't getting a glimpse of what's on President Barack Obama's Blackberry - or any more internal White House communications related to the bankrupt solar company Solyndra, which received a $535 million loan guarantee from the federal government.
House Republicans investigating the loan controversy had requested all internal White House documents about the issue. House Energy and Commerce subcommittee chair Rep. Cliff Stearns said that includes emails on the President's Blackberry.
On Friday the White House Counsel sent a letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee explaining they won't comply with the request because it "implicates longstanding and significant institutional Executive Branch confidentiality interests."
The response is hardly a surprise given past administrations' refusal to comply with similar congressional requests. The difference here? President Obama is the first Chief Executive to carry a Blackberry, so it's the first time a White House counsel has - even indirectly - turned down an attempt to peek at his email. Neither the Blackberry nor his personal email is explicitly mentioned in the letter.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
What telecom is his ISP? I thought they could be forced to turn over all logs and had to retain them for years. Isn’t this a matter of national security?
Nixon tried to claim Executive Privilege with the WH tapes - he lost. I see NO difference here ...
Send a direct appeal to SCOTUS !!!
Just get some teenager to hack the bloody thing and post it’s contents on the net.
Wikileaks, where are you?
David Lewis is a Tea Party candidate running against Boehner.
Agreed
David Lewis is a Tea Party candidate running against Boehner.
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David Lewis is too young, too inexperienced, and lacks the composure and polish needed for the job. The screaming sit-ins are unacceptable.
That only applies if your last name is Palin.
Correct , and its long, long overdue.
Correct , and its long, long overdue.
Obama can’t do this. Eventually he will be forced to cough up the requested information. Unfortunately, it won’t happen until after he’s out of office and nobody will care.
“Belonging to a real old generation, I have no idea how Blackberries work - except in pies!
Can’t messages be deleted from them?”
Here is a lesson for everyone to learn. In cyberspace, nothing really ever gets deleted. You may THINK you have deleted an e-mail or file from your PC, phone, etc, but either the service provider keeps it, it still resides on your hard drive or memory, or the NSA has a copy of it.
Even run-on sentences are not exempt!
That blackberry is a tool provided by Obama’s employer, ‘we the people’. Like any other employer, e-mails can be monitored. There should be nothing on that blackberry that could be classified as ‘top secret’ or a threat to National security. If there is, Obama should be considered a loose cannon. Cough it up Obama, quit disrespecting this Country, its laws and its government.
“”Even run-on sentences are not exempt!””
I like your wit. That sentence of yours wasn’t run-on. You’ve seen obozo’s, I’m sure. Now THOSE are run-on sentences - and on and on and on and on!! By the time he answers a question, the questioner has forgotten what the question was.
Tanx, wit I have, so I am not totally defenseless!
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