Let the Madness Begin: GOP likely to urge Obama officials not to shred documents

[Emillereid]

GOP likely to urge Obama officials not to shred documents
By Jordy Yager and Bob Cusack - 11/03/10 10:32 AM ET
Republicans are likely to urge the Obama administration not to shred documents as they transition to the House majority. 



Before the election, GOP officials on Capitol Hill privately discussed the issue but refrained from publicly tackling it, not wanting to assume what would happen on Election Day.

 Now that Republicans will control the House, the shredding matter will move front and center. 




No one is accusing the Obama administration of destroying documents, but Republicans are expected to try to ensure that all records — on a range of issues — are kept intact.


Darrell West, a political scientist and director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution, said Republicans likely will formally ask the administration not to shred or delete any relevant documents that could be requested in a congressional probe.



“That’ll happen right away, because they want to make sure that the documentary record is preserved so that they have something to investigate,” said West.



Armed with the House majority, Republicans next year will enjoy subpoena power — something they have not had in four years.

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[democrat_patriot]

1. WH response: Eat shit. The people have spoken, they want Bush back.

shred, shred, shred....

[sharp_stick]

2. And Obama has the precedent of Executive

Privilege that shrubbo, his AG and the puke members of both houses of Congress all supported so strenuously after 2006.

Precedent and video replays will have a lot of weight when Darryl Issa and his merry band of assholes make a phone call. I anticipate a lot of the White House telling the House GOP to go fuck themselves on documents and subpoenas.

[lumberjack_jeff]

3. Why didn't we think of that? n/t

[T Wolf]

4. I would advise them to shred everything. And burn what won't shred. And refuse to cooperate

with any of the witch-hunts launched by the pukes.

But I predict the Dems will meekly give in, just as they have done for the past 30 years.

[TwilightGardener]

5. He should keep them in the same safe place as the Bush WH emails were kept.

The "delete" file.

[dennis4868]

6. Repubs have shredded our jobs...

but they don't want Obama shredding documents...FUCK THE REPUBS.....THEY SHOULD ALL GO TO HELL WHERE THEY BELONG.

[vi5]

7. I'm sure he'll just reach across the aisle and it will be o.k.

He'll just turn on that charm and reach across the aisle for some folksy bipartisanship and then they'll go "Oh heck. We don't need to investigate you. I mean you're reaching out for cooperation and moderation. How can we be mad at that?"

I mean that's exactly what's going to happen, right?

[baldguy]

8. Obama should appoint two Special Prosecutors.

One to ostensibly "look into" alleged crimes of the administration - and of course find nothing to each allegation.

The second would thoroughly investigate foreign funding of American political campaigns - and anything else that comes up. Each Republican Senator & Representative would be confronted with a team of 20-30 lawyers with subpoenas for every piece of paper & bit of information in their personal & professional lives in the last 30 yrs, and would continue until something was found on each one.

If the GOP wants a witch hunt, Obama should give them one. Or 286 of them.

[Uben]

9. Oops! We lost 5 million emails !

It won't happen again.

[Champion Jack]

10. Fuck the republicans

[kick-ass-bob]

11. He'll just say 'there's nothing to shred'

And then they'll just shred the "nothing" there is to shred.

[sweetapogee]

13. hello???

I'm sure no one will appreciate this now, but nothing invites investigation more than missing data. Nixon did himself no favors by erasing 16 minutes of magnetic audio tape.

All of the meetings in the capitol (WH/halls of Congress) are logged in. This cannot be shredded. The repugs, unless they are totally incompetent already know what documents they want. The same holds true for dems investigating pukes.

[Vincardog]

12. Obama should send them EVERY non classified document in the National Library. Every Scrap of paper

, email videotape and tweet that concerned aWoLs war crimes ASAP.

[qazplm]

14. I hope it happens

it's the quickest easiest way to ensure re-election for Obama and a third consecutive changeover in the House.

PLEASE, do what you did to Clinton, be blatantly ridiculous. Worst thing that could happen would be for the Republicans to start being quasi-reasonable.