Issa: More Than 20 Obama Officials ‘Lost or Destroyed’ E-mails After House Launched Probes
By Joel Gehrke
August 7, 2014 5:27 PM
The revelation that Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Marilynn Tavenner did not retain her e-mails means that more than 20 witness in the Obama administration to lose or delete e-mails without notifying Congress, according to the top House investigator.
“The Obama administration has lost or destroyed e-mails for more than 20 witnesses, and in each case, the loss wasn’t disclosed to the National Archives or Congress for months or years, in violation of federal law,” House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) said ofTavenner’s lost e-mails.
“It defies logic that so many senior Administration officials were found to have ignored federal recordkeeping requirements only after Congress asked to see their e-mails,” he continued. “Just this week, my staff followed up with HHS, who has failed to comply with a subpoena from ten months ago. Even at that point, the administration did not inform us that there was a problem with Ms. Tavenner’s e-mail history. Yet again, we discover that this administration will not be forthright with the American people unless cornered.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/384906/issa-more-20-obama-officials-lost-or-destroyed-e-mails-after-house-launched-probes
Yet one of his biggest campaign thenes was to be the most transparent administrations ever.
No different than any other hypocrite politician.
But the difference is Obama made transparency one of his key campaign platforms. Yes, the rest may be similarly untrustworthy, but I don’t recall any Presidential candidate running on the issue of transparency. Another one of his was special interests and pork.
Deliberate destruction of documents legitimately demanded by Congress pursuant to its oversight role. Clearly done by underlings at the behest of the top dogs. An impeachable offense. The fish stinks from the head down. The underlings must have felt confident enough to do this because they believed that the attorney general would never prosecute them, and that the next administration will be just as uninterested ad the current one in faithfully enforcing the law.