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White House rejects 'partisan' subpoena on Solyndra documents
platts.com ^ | 4Nov2011/612 pm EDT/2212 GMT | Herman Wang, herman_wang@platts.com

Posted on 11/04/2011 3:53:27 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Washington (Platts)--4Nov2011/612 pm EDT/2212 GMT

The White House Friday rejected a subpoena issued by the House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce Committee to produce internal communications and other documents related to now-bankrupt solar panel maker Solyndra's $535 million loan guarantee.

In a letter to the Republican leaders of the committee, White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler called the subpoena a partisan "vast fishing expedition" without legal justification.

"The committee's extremely broad request for documents -- now a subpoena -- is a significant intrusion on Executive Branch interests, particularly given that you have not made any effort to tailor the request to the legitimate interests of the committee," Ruemmler wrote.

"Moreover, responding to such an expansive request would require the devotion of substantial resources to gather and review many documents that are of no legitimate oversight interest," she continued.

Aides to the committee's Republicans could not immediately be reached for comment, and it is unclear what their next move would be.

(Excerpt) Read more at platts.com ...


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To: Mariner
It may be real but it has limits and this is probably not one of them...public interest overrides executive privacy interests in criminal prosectution for the truth. There is no national security interest.

......USSC

.... “To read the Article II powers of the President as providing an absolute privilege as against a subpoena essential to enforcement of criminal statutes on no more than a generalized claim of the public interest in confidentiality of nonmilitary and nondiplomatic discussions would upset the constitutional balance of ‘a workable government’ and gravely impair the role of the courts under Article III.” Because Nixon had asserted only a generalized need for confidentiality, the Court held that the larger public interest in obtaining the truth in the context of a criminal prosecution took precedence.........

61 posted on 11/04/2011 7:38:03 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: sergeantdave

No...it was my error.

My apologies for being overly sensitive and seeing something that wasn’t there.

Cheers to you! :-D


62 posted on 11/04/2011 7:38:19 PM PDT by Artcore
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Gambling in the private sector with tax-payer monies is not “fishing”. They are guilty of kickbacks and they know it. It’s the Chicago way.


63 posted on 11/04/2011 7:40:49 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: eyedigress
it actually looks like extortion ( the willful mis-appropriation of public funds for personal gain

the executive branch believes they are immune by virtue of the power they possess

64 posted on 11/04/2011 7:56:04 PM PDT by KTM rider ( with citizenship you get indentured servitude)
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To: KTM rider

Either definition creates one hell of a warchest for Obama. That bastard is laundering funds through failed companies back to his campaign.


65 posted on 11/04/2011 8:00:34 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: Artcore
He should be hung!

Only his boy toy Larry Sinclair knows for sure.

66 posted on 11/04/2011 8:54:57 PM PDT by metalurgist (I Want your country back? It'll take guns and rope. Marxists won't give up peaceably.)
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To: metalurgist

Somehow, I don’t think he is. I don’t think there’s much “substance” to him in general!


67 posted on 11/04/2011 9:02:19 PM PDT by KJC1
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“I agree. I don’t want this administration defeated. I want them humiliated and destroyed.”

“Count me in!

I want to crush them! I want them driven before me! I want to hear the lamentations of Moochelle!”

For some reason The Nuge singing Stranglehold comes to mind:

“here i come again now baby
like a dog in heat
tell it’s me by the clamour now baby
i like to tear up the street

now I’ve been smoking for so long
you know i’m here to stay
got you in a stranglehold baby
you best get out of the way

road i cruise is a bitch now baby
you know you can’t do me ‘round
if a house gets in my way baby
you know I’ll burn it down

you ran that night that you left me
you put me in my place
got you in a stranglehold now baby
then i crushed your face.”


68 posted on 11/04/2011 9:24:05 PM PDT by GunPkrBkr (I'd rather be judged by twelve, than carried by six.)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
IMPEACH NOW!!!
69 posted on 11/04/2011 9:24:54 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Artcore

I wish I was offered that. It’s been ages since I had some homestyle southern cooking.


70 posted on 11/04/2011 10:40:54 PM PDT by digital-olive
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

how does one reject a subpeona?


71 posted on 11/05/2011 1:42:38 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: GeronL
"how does one reject a subpeona?"

Executive privilege.

yitbos

72 posted on 11/05/2011 2:22:14 AM PDT by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds." -- Ayn Rand)
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To: Drill Thrawl

I didn’t know that one could “reject” a subpoena either!!!!!
Wow, just wow.
Time to get out the pitchforks.


73 posted on 11/05/2011 2:46:29 AM PDT by HotKat (“Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason.” Mark Twain)
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To: TheConservator

Impeach. TODAY! You HAVE THE VOTES! DO IT!


74 posted on 11/05/2011 4:29:38 AM PDT by Shady (The undeniable truth of the Obama Administration...The numbers do not lie.)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Problem is (and we all know this here) the Media is going to cover for these criminals...

They, however, cannot avoid covering the passage of articles of IMPEACHMENT!


75 posted on 11/05/2011 4:33:26 AM PDT by Shady (The undeniable truth of the Obama Administration...The numbers do not lie.)
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To: sergeantdave

I am drooling now!


76 posted on 11/05/2011 4:50:46 AM PDT by Shady (The undeniable truth of the Obama Administration...The numbers do not lie.)
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To: Shady
Mmmmmm collard greens!

Oh, and yeah the WH has some explaining to do.
77 posted on 11/05/2011 5:27:26 AM PDT by freebird5850 (Of course Obama loves his country...it's just that Cain loves mine!)
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To: freebird5850

I LOVE Collards when they are cooked masterfully by a real Southern cook! Or a Northern cook...I’m not geo-racist LOL!!


78 posted on 11/05/2011 6:18:05 AM PDT by Shady (The undeniable truth of the Obama Administration...The numbers do not lie.)
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To: George Varnum

Let’s go with your postulation.

If your hypothetical army of mex. Gangs, al queda rejects and ows hippies went up against americans in the mid west and south, how long would that conflict last?

As an answer, let me share a fact I once learned about armed americans. Last year, on the first day of deer season in WI, the total number of armed hunters was the 4th largest armed force in the world, goog luck BHO!


79 posted on 11/05/2011 8:24:13 AM PDT by SpringtoLiberty (Liberty is on the march!)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

bump


80 posted on 11/05/2011 9:34:27 AM PDT by CitizenM (Obama's legacy will be to be remembered as The architect of the decline of the USA)
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