WH Ignores House Subpoena For Solyndra Documents

Washington Examiner ^ | 22 Feburary | Joel Gehrke

[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."

[Fractal Trader]

Subpoena: We don't care about no stinkin' subpoena!

[Fractal Trader]

ping

[SMM48]

Listening at the door to Issa's office:

Crickets

[Tenacious 1]

I’m the F@#$%g president! You don’t subpena me! Who the hell do you think you are?

[GeronL]

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??

[Sgt_Schultze]

Why not ignore it? Republicans has shown there is no penalty for non-compliance.

[FrankR]

[skeeter]

Nor do they have to, with the news media completely silent about this today.

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.

[DH]

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.

[cuban leaf]

I seem to remember someone else had this sort of attitude for a while...

[Goreknowshowtocheat]

Yeah, I thought Obama was God now. He does not do subpoenas or court appearances. He is the “one” now.

[Qbert]

“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.

[Gator113]

Bring in the prison busses.

[Goreknowshowtocheat]

I was waiting for the “other shoe” to drop on Obama. No sense waiting, the pubbies only have one shoe.

[Goreknowshowtocheat]

I was waiting for the “other shoe” to drop on Obama. No sense waiting, the pubbies only have one shoe.

[Revel]

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.

[In Maryland]

"The Bush Administration has been one of the most secretive, closed administrations in American history. Our nation’s progress has been stifled by a system corrupted by millions of lobbying dollars contributed to political campaigns, the revolving door between government and industry, and privileged access to inside information-all of which have led to policies that favor the few against the public interest. An Obama presidency will use cutting-edge technologies to reverse this dynamic, creating a new level of transparency, accountability and participation for America's citizens."

Obama 2008 campaign

[unixfox]

F U B O !

[Not The Other One]

Obama’s White House learned its negotiating strategies from Sadam Hussein. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

[mo]

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...