ifá don t think anybody assue they re goingq to get everything or even a photographic of what a fraction of what the administration is obliged to give them. look att(xd what happened to th. the went knocking on the labor department s door and said, give us these secret e-mailq account. they sa; you have to pay us a million dollars to get it, ha-ha-ha. neilpfi take it you don t believe anything of this.t(jfñ michelle, alwaysi] good seeingi] you. thank you very much. you bet. taker neil: get a load ofñr this. the hoopsçó wew3 all went throuo turns out two out of three ofñi them ain :g so sure they want part of this.e1 i don t make any decisions about who to hire
window. neil: there s some confusion as to how low level these personnel were, giving you this information from the justice department, that it was in fact eric holder s middle people, not just a low-level entity. furthermore that s disputes and you said possibly, you should go eric holder. if i m eric holder i think it s a kangaroo court and i m not going to give you squat. well, the congress is a separate and coequal branch of government with the executive branch, and also we have a responsibility to do oversight over the department. that was given to us by the framers of the constitution. now, oversight is always tough, and i got into some tangles with attorney general ashcroft in the publish administration because he was reticent to do oversight but a reading of the constitution says we re doing his job and he is obstructing us from being able to do it. neil: congressman, thank you very much. thank you. neil: forget running for the
irs. the rules and we were playing by the rules. we were we applied for our tax exempt status because we thought that was the right thing to do. we wanted to be accountable to the government, accountable to our members and we fell winded within to the boundaries and were following the rules-yet it was our fault? neil: trying to give the ben fit of the doubt to the irs because none of them come on the show, but we keep trying and hope springs eternal. maybe they were coming down because so many were applying for the status at the same time. that s their argumentment what too you say in response? well, there were as many progressive groups or even possibly more progressive groups and they weren t being looked as as closely as we were. so that argument fails. neil: becky, thank you. meantime, mam running for the presidential election, losing
start andok the epa head had a sock suspect richard windsor and when there are public groups pressing, a it s hard to figure out who is doing what when you have secret accounts. the lawsuitq that was filed last file and the ap followed up on with its own requests thatxd hae been ignored byçóñ5( the administration and subverted for months is theçó fact it s not jt a single agency. that as you said, cathleen sebelitq has been been a long-time history of subverting disclosure laws backok to herqr asfá governor. neil: you can say not only officialçócu.x e-mails, we wani them. will they claim theseq e-m3i(jñq don t count because therein lies the potential constitutional crisis?
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