White House Rejects Solyndra Subpoena; WH Says It's a "Fishing Expedition"

Pundit Press ^ | 11/4/11 | Aurelius

[therightliveswithus]

After the collapse of Solyndra, a solar company that received over $500,000,000 in loans from the Obama Administration, Republicans noted the unsettling amount of ties that the White House had with the defunct company.

Vice President Biden called on his advisers to hurry through the loan, President Obama toured the Solyndra plant in 2010, and the top executives of Solyndra donated heavily to then-candidate Obama in 2008. President Bush rejected loaning the company money, saying that it was too risky, and even President Obama's advisors told him in person that the half-a-billion-dollar loan was "not ready for prime time."

The Obama Administration has stated repeatedly that it did nothing wrong and would "not have changed" what he did if he had the chance. Mr. Obama has also said he has nothing to hide. And yet, today the Obama Administration rejected a subpoena on the Solyndra loan it pushed for, possibly confirming that the President does indeed have something to hide.

Kathryn H. Ruemmler, counsel to the president, stated officially that the rejection was because the subpoena was a "significant intrusion" into what the President has done in the White House. Her argument, in part, is that Congress has no need to know what Mr. Obama does or why.

She continued, "There is no basis for such a broad request beyond a 'vast fishing expedition.'"

[sten]

“you have no standing”

none of those with the subpoenas worked for solyndra or its competitors.

case dismissed!

[teeman8r]

as co equals in government... it is time to hammer down on the executive branch...

squeeze them until the czars fall from the sky...

start with the green czar.

under oath.

under threat of prosecution.

make it quick and painful.

t

[teeman8r]

say it isn’t so...

herman cain cannot beat biden in 2012...

ugh...

we are doomed.

t

[castlebrew]

This should make for a GREAT show from The Great One...

[william clark]

Fishing expedition in a very well-stocked lake.

[bray]

Then what have you got to hide? If it were a fishing expedition Waxman would be issuing the subpoenas.

Pray for America

[Chandalier]

They go to a federal judge.

[elephant]

Is the White house getting all “weed up”?

[windsorknot]

Fishing expeditions can be quite successful when the pond is well stocked.

[Caipirabob]

White House Rejects Solyndra Subpoena; WH Says It's a "Fishing Expedition"

In a barrel, for bottom-dwelling scum suckers.

What's Obama's point?

[drypowder]

If I had an employee tell me that it is none of my business if I requested documentation on something they've done, guess what my response would be.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Who also can’t do jack.

[Mr. K]

Huh?

“rejects” it?

ummm... you don’t say “no, thank you” to a subpoena. have this incompetant boob arrested

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

Seems like when the Dems had control, they always called their Bush fishing expeditions, “Oversight”.

[kcvl]

$500,000,000 in loans from the Obama Administration was a “significant intrusion” into TAXPAYER’S POCKETS, you A-HOLE!

[combat_boots]

yes.

Constitutional crises, one after another and another.

From a supposed Constitutional lawyer, no less. The man is a walking crisis.

This has been the WH’s governing SOP.

[kcvl]

Musical Chairs: Kathy Ruemmler from Latham Back to DOJ

Kathryn Ruemmler, a litigation partner at Latham & Watkins and an Enron prosecutor before that, has been picked to serve as Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General in the Obama Justice Department. That title is a mouthful, but lawyers inside the Beltway know it’s a Big Deal.

The revolving door between the DOJ and Latham swings again. Ruemmler has traded places with another fierce female litigator: Alice Fisher, who rejoined the firm after heading up the Criminal Division.

http://abovethelaw.com/2009/01/musical-chairs-kathy-ruemmler-from-latham-back-to-doj/

[liberalh8ter]

Does this mean all criminals can now refuse subpoenas as long as they proclaim the subpoena to be a 'fishing expedition'? No officer, you can't search my home for drugs because it's a fishing expedition.

The lawyer in the oval office has no respect for law.

[scooby321]

The whole House now Votes on the Subpoena.

Then Obama will make a stupid augment of executive privilege.

a judge will deny the White House claim.

[kcvl]

White House Counsel Kathryn H. Ruemmler shot back at House Energy & Commerce Republicans Friday, characterizing a subpoena the committee had approved along party lines Thursday as an “unreasonable burden on the President’s ability to meet his constitutional duties.”

Ruemmler didn’t invoke executive privilege, but chastised the Republican leaders of the House Energy & Committee and subcommittee for blowing her off and ploughing ahead with the subpoena that demands any and all documents relating to Solyndra (as opposed to specific documents that relate to oversight of the loan guarantee and communications between the White House and the Department of Energy.)

“I am disappointed and troubled that, despite our offer to work with the Committee on a more focused request that balances the important interests of both the Congress and the Executive Branch, the Committee decided to move forward with an overbroad subpoena that is unprecedented and unnecessary,” she wrote. The full letter is below.