Congress asks for Obama's emails on Solyndra

[babsbunny]

Congress asks for Obama's emails on Solyndra

By Eamon Javers

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44808523/ns/business-cnbc_tv/

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama is the first president to use email, and now he has likely just become the first president to have his emails requested by investigators.

On Wednesday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee broadened its investigation into the failed solar company Solyndra, sending a letter to the White House counsel’s office requesting all West Wing communications regarding the decision to use taxpayer loan guarantees to back up the clean technology firm.

On Wednesday evening the committee clarified to CNBC that it is specifically asking for the White House to turn over any emails on the matter that were sent by the president himself.

[bluestateguy]

1. Just invoke executive privilege

It will take 4 or 5 years for the courts to hash it all out.

[lumberjack_jeff]

2. "I'll trade you for a jobs bill." n/t

[deminks]

3. +1

[ProSense]

4. These

Republican assholes are just counting on the media to go along with their bullshit. When one claim fails, they simply move on to the next.

Stearns: Oops, The White House Did Deliver Those E-Mails To Us After All

[FormerDittoHead]

5. He should just lose them like the bush whitehouse did...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_e-mail_controversy

The Bush White House e-mail controversy surfaced in 2007, during the controversy involving the dismissal of eight U.S. attorneys....

...In 2009, it was announced that as many as 22 million emails may have been deleted.