White House Refuses To Release Documents On Air-Quality Policy

[Echo In Light]

White House Refuses To Release Documents On Air-Quality Policy
Officials Again Cite Executive Privilege

By Spencer S. Hsu and Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writers

The Bush administration yesterday invoked executive privilege and refused to turn over key documents sought by a House investigative committee, escalating a fight over the White House role in U.S. policy on greenhouse-gas emissions and ozone air quality standards.

Rep. Henry L. Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, called off a threatened contempt of Congress vote against Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen L. Johnson and a White House budget official while congressional Democrats decide how to respond.

Lawmakers say the two Bush administration officials refused to respond to subpoenas for documents about communications between the White House and EPA. The papers concern White House intervention in Johnson's December decision to overrule EPA officials who were in favor of granting California and 17 other states permission to mandate a reduction of vehicle emissions by 30 percent by 2016.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062002068.html?hpid=topnews

[spanone]

1. the arrogance of bu$hco is breathtaking

[Bandit]

6. No it is completely rational considering how docile Congress is

especially under Democratic Majority...

[jimshoes]

2. All that "transparency in government" the chimp was spewing

about Saddam Hussein turns out to be nothing but more hot air and lies that took us into an illegal war. Biggest hypocrite that ever lived.

[Echo In Light]

3. Rightists take hypocrisy to a new level vis a vis projection...

Much of the rhetoric they use against their various enemies is loaded with descriptions and accusation that they themselves are far more guilty of than those they attack and condemn.

It's like happening upon a group of children having an argument, and the one who provoked and keeps on antagonizing the situation is usually the one who proclaims innocence the loudest, while pointing fingers at the others.

[pleah]

4. Waxman called off a threatened contempt of Congress vote, while

congressional Democrats decide how to respond? WTF! HOLD THEIR ASSES IN CONTEMPT! GDI!

:banghead:








"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." - Denis Diderot

[G_j]

5. they've been shown, they can do whatever they want to do

what does anyone expect?

[ColbertWatcher]

7. I saw the thread title and wanted to make a smart-assed comment about...

...how he would probably invoke executive privilege.

So, I click on it to read it and in the first sentence, I see:

"The Bush administration yesterday invoked executive privilege and refused to turn over key documents sought by a House investigative committee..."

Damn, there goes my joke.

Maybe.