Stonewalling

MANIFESTO

The White House has indicated that it may or may not cooperate with the House's U.S. attorney investigation. It's certainly no surprise that we're finding this out on a Friday afternoon.

From John Conyers' press release:

The White House Counsel's office advised us this afternoon that the White House would not be providing documents to the [House Judiciary] Committee, or providing the White House's position with respect to the Committee securing the testimony of White House officials today. This is contrary to earlier expectations that the Committee would receive these answers and documents today and is, therefore, very disappointing. The Counsel's office has assured me that they will continue to work in good faith to get answers to those questions by early next week.

Mere words can't express how irked I am at this too familiar strategy.


UPDATE — I'm reminded of the Sage of Baltimore's incisive observation: All government, of course, is against liberty.