0bama defies request to turn over all documents related to Solyndra ("I AM above the LAW" ~ 0bama)

CNN ^ | Oct 14, 2011 | Jessica Yellin

[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."

[Volunteer]

Wait, did we have to buy Obama a special Blackberry when he became CIC because it had to be secure?

If so, you have to turn over the materials Obama. That phone belongs to us, the American taxpayers.

[manc]

good point

People have to sign into the white house but he has his blackberry where people do not have to sign in, no one knows who zero is talking to, for all we know it could be Mugabee, to Chavez, to Van Jones and I guarantee Soros

[Logical me]

Game over. Nothing will happen to Solyndra or thoses responsibe. America is being run by communists dedicated to turn America into a third world country and a dictatorship. An the power in now in the hands of the communists. Law abiding conservative Americans still don't get it and are too passive. The GOP is a sad excuse and are not Constitutional Americans. We are on the brink of a revolution that will turn into a civil war.

[schwingdoc]

can you say special prosecutor?

This president could solve the unemployment problem for lawyers just by assigning special prosecutors for every one of his corrupt “state department interests”.

[savage woman]

what a crock, hand it over.

Where is a good hacker when you need one?
I know there is someone out there who can get into it...
We deserve the truth and “Yes we can...handle it”.

[Cheerio]

Game over. Nothing will happen to Solyndra or thoses responsibe. America is being run by communists dedicated to turn America into a third world country and a dictatorship. An the power in now in the hands of the communists. Law abiding conservative Americans still don't get it and are too passive. The GOP is a sad excuse and are not Constitutional Americans. We are on the brink of a revolution that will turn into a civil war.

When does it start? Because nothing is getting done via the routine political channels.

[okie01]

Someone please bring us all up to date on the current status, if there is one, of any “Special Prosecutor” statute that could possibly be used to compel such an appointment.

Congress may request the appointment of a Special Prosecutor.

The request is directed to the President, who -- if he approves -- will direct the Attorney General to appoint same.

Can you see where this is going...???

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I had a friend years ago who believed (probably because he watched old Perry Mason episodes) that you COULD NOT be convicted of a crime unless you confessed.

Reminds me of a young woman I used to work with who swore that she couldn't get pregnant as long as she was "on top."

[Wu]

I was thinking the same but to do so would lead to CW II.

[Iron Munro]

He’s got them in the document lock box with the real birth certificate!

[reformedliberal]

So ‘transparent’ that he doesn’t have a blind trust and he made personal profits from personal investments in Solyndra.

[Aria]

What? Obama made personal profits from Solyndra? Can you elaborate?

[Brilliant]

Stonewall.

[NCC-1701]

Yes.......but not so much lately.

[American in Israel]

Brings a new meaning to the term Grand Theft.

[RockyMtnMan]

Coincidence, awfully timely if you ask me. Maybe a special effort to purge the data had side effects. I know it’s pretty tin-foil but when was the last time this happened?

http://news.softpedia.com/news/BlackBerry-Network-Down-Worldwide-10-10-2011-226678.shtml

[reformedliberal]

Ok, I retract that post.

I conflated Solyndra with LightSquared. His trust did invest in LightSquared.

As a Senator, his investment trust did purchase a drug manufacturer (AVI) with an anti-viral and Sen. Obama voted in support of legislation that benefited them, during the bird flue scare. Either that instance or a separate one whose details I don’t recall, lost money, which has been spun to exonerate him.

So, I don’t know that he invested in Solyndra or that he made a profit. But, there is past similar action on the part of his investment managers.

No excuses, but it is late and I am not only tired, I am furious with so much that I posted before checking.

Carry on.

[hapnHal]

Sounds like this would make a good script plot for LAW and ORDER.

[Mariner]

You folks need to get a handle on reality.

This President and every President cannot subject internal communication and deliberation to Congress.

Ever.

Under any circumstances except for circumstances determined by the executive branch to be appropriate.

Did you folks even take a civics class in High School?

[Mariner]

Folks, read the below and learn something.

Chief Justice Burger, writing for the majority in US v. Nixon noted: "Whatever the nature of the privilege of confidentiality of Presidential communications in the exercise of Art. II powers, the privilege can be said to derive from the supremacy of each branch within its own assigned area of constitutional duties. Certain powers and privileges flow from the nature of enumerated powers; the protection of the confidentiality of Presidential communications has similar constitutional underpinnings.United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683 (1974) (Supreme Court opinion at FindLaw)