Issa seeks DNC records of White House meeting

[The Northerner]

House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa now has the Democratic National Committee in his sights as he probes what he has called “potentially illegal fundraising activities within the White House.”

The California Republican sent a letter on Wednesday to DNC Executive Director Patrick Gaspard demanding all DNC records, including invitation lists and RSVPs, relating to a policy discussion President Barack Obama held with business leaders in the White House’s Blue Room on March 7. The session was organized by the DNC and all the guests were donors to Obama’s 2008 campaign.

Issa’s letter also seeks records of any other DNC events that took place or were planned in “any room of the White House, the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, the New Executive Office Building, or any other federal property on or off the White House grounds.” He also wants records regarding the use of the White House for a video Obama made for a raffle his campaign is running that seeks donations in exchange for a chance to win dinner with Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.

The White House has denied that DNC-organized events held on White House grounds, including the March Blue Room session and a February reception for DNC members, were fundraisers.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/58908.html

[bluestateguy]

1. Invoke executive privilege and cite Bush Administration precedents

then let them (Issa et al.) file a lawsuit that will take 5-7 years to wend its way through the courts.

[Historic NY]

2. Yup screw'em.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Republicons can stick this the same place as the Cheney energy corp meeting records

up a deep dark stupendously stanky body cavity

[Dawson Leery]

4. Obama should be bi-partisan and follow Bush's policy on this matter.

[vanlassie]

5. Asshat

[EC]

6. This is always one of the things you can count on

with the repubs...maybe even both sides, I do seem to remember us looking at the RNC.

[KittyWampus]

7. Well, the RNC had Abramoff and Tom Delay breaking the law.

[EC]

8. Yep.

just saying this was expected from Issa. I'm sure we kept our accounts as clean as we could.