If they don't keep the records then you can't subpoena them
*Carol Browner Is Not Obsessive About Keeping Records: *Either during the Clinton administration, or now <http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Browner-has-history-of-deceit-on-government-files-50358647.html>. Obama White House climate czar Carol Browner's instruction to auto executives to"write nothing down" on those secret negotiations to jump the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards up significantly higher was not the former EPA head's first time for trying to suppress official documents. Soon after leaving EPA at the end of the Clinton administration, Browner was implicated in a federal court decision against EPA for destroying official computer files. Here's how the AP reported the decision: "A federal judge held the Environmental Protection Agency in contempt Thursday for destroying computer files during the Clinton administration that had been sought by a conservative legal foundation. "U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth also ordered the EPA to pay the Landmark Legal Foundation's legal fees and costs because the agency disobeyed his order to preserve the electronic records of former chief Carol Browner. "Lamberth ordered the sanctions because he said the EPA had shown 'contumacious conduct' - obstinate resistance to authority." It has been suggested that one reason President Barack Obama appointed Browner to a White House "czar" position is precisely that such appointees advise the chief executive directly and thus are not subject to the normal disclosure rules, thanks to executive privilege. In this she is like Obama, who has "lost" so many records, including those from his time in the Illinois senate. If you are a Republican, or just ordinarily suspicious, you would suspect that the two have something to hide. - 7:23 AM, 10 July 2009 [link] <http://www.seanet.com/%7Ejimxc/Politics/July2009_2.html#jrm7599> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
