White House Directly Obstructing Congress
Posted on | April 18, 2007
White House staffers’ e-mails using their Republican National Committee accounts are of obvious interest to Rep. John Conyers as his House Judiciary Committee investigates the firings of several US Attorneys. The White House, though, has ordered the RNC to withold this evidence from Congress:
The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), wants to get its hands on those RNC-issued email accounts used by Karl Rove and other White House personnel. Congressional investigators want to know about Rove’s and his deputy’s involvement in the U.S. attorney firings. But the White House insists that it review the emails first, before handing anything over to Democrats. Last week, Conyers warned the RNC not to do that, saying that it would be “an unjustified delay” and “potentially… an obstruction of our investigation.”
And today, in a letter to the RNC, the White House made their position clear: you have to give them to us first. There “exists a clear and indisputable Executive Branch interest” in the emails on the RNC-issued accounts, wrote Emmet Flood, Special Counsel to the President.
What’s the Bush White House trying to hide, besides their play book for Campaign ‘08?
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