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White House asks Darrell Issa to drop subpoena
Politico ^ | 7/14/14 | Lauren French

Posted on 07/14/2014 1:07:17 PM PDT by Nachum

The White House is asking Rep. Darrell Issa to withdraw a subpoena of a senior adviser to President Barack Obama and is offering instead to a hold a private briefing on activities in the administration’s political affairs office. In a letter sent Monday, White House Counsel W. Neil Eggleston offered to brief Issa, a California Republican who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, on the role of the the Office of Political Strategy and Outreach on Tuesday. That’s one day before the office’s director, David Simas, is under subpoena to testify on potential violations of the Hatch Act.

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


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KEYWORDS: deadenddarrell; eggleston; issa; subpoena
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To: Nachum

Issa should just ignore it. 0bama never replies to any Republican congresscritter.


41 posted on 07/14/2014 1:41:05 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: Nachum

The attempt to lie in private is a joke


42 posted on 07/14/2014 1:43:33 PM PDT by Thibodeaux
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To: BigEdLB

This 6 minute video may help even the dullest no/low info morons understand what they have done. (Then again...) With assists from “academia”, liberal Jews (no, I am NOT an anti-semite but support Israel’s right to exist) and a few others, the 47% no/low info voters hooked on “free chit” put a MAD MAN in the Spite House! And if you thought the last 6 years were insane, wait until next year!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdaLIDaMuSo
PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!


43 posted on 07/14/2014 1:44:14 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (Ignorance is NOT BLISS. It is the ROAD TO SERFDOM! We're on a ROAD TRIP!!)
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To: Nachum
...and is offering instead to a hold a private briefing on activities in the administration’s political affairs office.

In other words, the White House wants to change the optics from advisors testifying before Congress, to Congress subordinating themselves in a White house office.

Move the home field advantage away from Congress and to the White House.

Stupid move if Issa goes for it.

-PJ

44 posted on 07/14/2014 1:50:41 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Don’t give into this pompous ass, let them sweat it out.


45 posted on 07/14/2014 1:54:34 PM PDT by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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To: BigEdLB

Or a yet-to-be revealed threat offered behind closed doors?


46 posted on 07/14/2014 1:55:49 PM PDT by ex91B10 (We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!)
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To: Nachum

No White House briefing. Send in a detachment of Marines for the old boy Obama is trying to hide. Wipe out the corrupt Secret Service blathers if they break away from their booze and naked women and try to stop the Marines.


47 posted on 07/14/2014 2:00:44 PM PDT by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning./)
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To: sarge83

I am paraphrasing but towards the end of the article, spokesman for Issa says as long as the briefing answers our questions all is forgiven, basically. Couple of lines before it says there is no chance it will be withdrawn.

Issa talks rough. WH says ok let’s do b instead of a. Issa folds. I see a pattern here.


49 posted on 07/14/2014 4:58:49 PM PDT by Foundahardheadedwoman (God don't have a statute of limitations)
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To: sarge83

My opinion precisely.
Issa will fold like a cheap umbrella!


50 posted on 07/14/2014 5:40:20 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and in politic)
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To: Nachum
Looks like Obama is not going to squirm out of it.

"But Issa’s office said there is little chance that the subpoena will be withdrawn."

51 posted on 07/14/2014 7:10:32 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Nachum

Issa is a fool who thinks he can catch a bit of light from obamas halo.


52 posted on 07/14/2014 7:50:26 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: Nachum; Kaslin; Diogenes; MeshugeMikey; humblegunner; BuckeyeTexan; Jane Long; LucyT; Windflier; ...

If the US Congress is a co-equal branch of Government, then the Administration is not “more equal” than Congress.

If, however, Issa allows his subpoena to not be honored, then the Administration is above Congress, and the Administration is above the Laws derived from the Constitution of the United States of America.

Will Issa fold like a cheap suit?


53 posted on 07/15/2014 8:10:33 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Graewoulf
I thought the White House already told Issa to go pound sand. What's this about them asking him to drop his subpoena?
54 posted on 07/15/2014 9:15:11 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Dick Bachert

Later


55 posted on 07/16/2014 3:52:37 AM PDT by I_be_tc
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To: BigEdLB
the pretense of utter control has cracked wide open

rumor has it that camp obama has cancelled its August "semester"


56 posted on 07/16/2014 6:23:03 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: Graewoulf

how about a video of the subpoena in fact being dropped....then picked up off the floor....and then being DELIVERED. ?


57 posted on 07/16/2014 6:24:32 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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