Posted on 10/14/2011 6:02:13 PM PDT by R0CK3T
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.
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."
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
Honestly, this guy has done SO MUCH that is illegal, unethical, lied, broke “promise” after “promise” .....the man’s word is meaningless so it wouldn’t have surprised me if he had done the Solyndra thing...and the media would cover up for him.
We’re frogs in the boiling water...we’ve almost gotten used to the horrific things he has wrought. People either don’t know, or they make excuses for him, or they just say oh, they all do it. The sheer volume of his crimes have brought his best cover - apathy.
He may not have made a direct personal profit into his bank account. But, think about it. Obama is set up for life as a speech maker even if he loses in 2012. His wealth comes from holding office as president.
His profit comes from the donors who benefited from the government guaranteed loan that covered losses without hurting the private investors (Obama’s buddies).
Obama received campaign donations to maintain power. Not much different.
I did mean use - LOL!
I agree with you both.
Still, these are perilous times and I should have checked thoroughly before posting.
yah...that’s about what I figured.
Thomas Jefferson warned us about guys like Premier Hussein.
In his notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson wrote: “The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.”
By that it is clear we have a real mess on our hands because the wolf and all of his friends are already here, and we will be stuck trying to pull teeth and talons until we can vote them out of office.
Its also clear that the next President is going to be appointing quite a few Special Prosecutors once he takes office....lets hope it isn’t too late...
In other words, it seems he is claiming executive privilege in the matter.
TAPPER: Just a few days before the loan was approved, the chief investor, George Kaiser, met with Rouse, Jarrett and Goolsbee. The White House has said that they think that meeting was largely about some of his charitable work. Have you determined what entirely that meeting was about and whether or not the loan was brought up and discussed?
CARNEY: What — I would point you simply to what George Kaiser himself has said, that he did not lobby or discuss — you know, he did not lobby the administration officials with regard to this. He – with Solyndra. He was involved in a lot of charitable efforts and it’s our understanding that while we haven’t looked into every meeting and — that he might have had here, that that was the focus of his conversations, generally speaking, at the White House.
http://www.aim.org/don-irvine-blog/white-house-solyndra-execs-visit-was-for-charitable-purposes/
>>>In other words, it seems he is claiming executive privilege in the matter.<<<
Or in plan spoken words - its a Presidential coverup.
I guess all the President has to do to avoid evidence the WH played a role in getting 500 million to a political ally who lost the money is to claim executive privilege.
Or from Sarah Palin's emails from her Yahoo account?
Hey, at least it’s making money for GE (at the expense of the taxpayer, of course).
The normal practice -- a misbegotten political "courtesy", I suppose -- is for an incoming administration to sweep all the dirt left by the previous one under the carpet.
For example, GWB upon replacing the blatently corrupt Clinton administration.
In this regard, though, the Obama administration is clearly, well, different. The corruption has been so deep, so damaging, so subversive(!), that it simply must be exposed...and prosecuted!
Even if the principles have been pardoned, the public needs to know the gross depths these people plumbed. It should stand as a warning -- and object example -- to any future administration: Don't ever go there again.
Note also that, while the President has unlimited pardon powers, it extends only to federal laws. I've no doubt that multiple state laws were broken, as well.
If Eric Holder ends up in Florence (AZ), instead of Leavenworth (KS), I'll have no objection.
The next President bears a heavy duty. And his (her) willingness to undertake prosecution of the previous administration should be a prominent part of our primary selection.
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