Wednesday, March 04, 2015

The Republican Subpoena

I don't see how any House Committee can subpoena any records directly from Former Secretary Clinton. It is not her's to release. 

The documents from the US State Department are the owners of their employees work. It is the responsibility of the State Department to be clear they have all the documents from her work. There are going to be some documents they can't release because of the sensitivity of the content. That means Executive Privilege comes to bear on those documents. That is not obstruction it is the way the USA Constitution has been constructed. The Executive Branch has a great deal of autonomy from the Legislature AND the Judicial Branch.

If there is content reserved by the Obama State Department as Executive Priviledge that simply returns the dysfunction of the legislature back to a House Committee that was unwilling to accept the work of the independent investigation on Benghazi because it doesn't serve their politics.