COMMENTARY | As a former political/business consultant, I have to laugh at the statements by the White House about the subpoena on Solyndra documents being "overbroad." This is an argument I have seen before, and have found it is one that is used to stall an investigation or to defer from particular information being found out. The arguments by the White House are more of a statement of guilt than one of persecution.
In times of a congressional investigation, it is the responsibility of the president, the administration and White House workers to turn over all of the information that is requested. Remember the hundreds of boxes that were pulled from the White House during the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinski scandal? This was also the case during the Watergate scandal and during the Church Committee's investigation of Project MKUltra. The Solyndra investigation is no different.
The White House has said the gathering of information would conflict with President Barack Obama's ability to meet his duties. Which duties would that be? Right now, all we have seen him do is tour the country and talk about how the Republicans are holding the jobs bill back. Is this a constitutional duty of the president? Where in the Constitution does it state that the president is responsible for blaming a Congress that he is "too busy" to meet with?
The White House refusal of the subpoena and saying it "is a significant intrusion on the Executive Branch interests." This sounds like a play right out of Dick Chaney's book. Is the Executive Branch above ever being questioned? Is the president too important to be questioned about a company like Solyndra that was given government money and flopped? Is the president worried about a paper trail?
If nothing illegal or unethical was done with the Solyndra case, we would see a White House statement to Congress that it can have all of the information it wants without question. If Solyndra and the White House had not been bedmates, Congress would have everything it needed and all the time it needed to go over everything.
Arguments that President Obama is some type of victim to party politics and that the information needed is too broad are stalling statements to try to get the uninformed on President Obama's side. That reads like an admission to me.
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