the house oversight committee has subpoenaed a top white house adviser, the political director to appear at a hearing over whether he might be doing political campaign activities on white house time which could be a violation of something called the hatch act. the white house has asked darrell issa to withdraw the subpoena saying there aren't any reasons given or evidence presented as to what issa thinks that this director david seamus might have been doing wrong and further the white house top advisers have immunity and seamus will not be testifying. also yesterday, the white house sent a bunch of staffers to issa's office to talk about all of this and they were, shall we say, more than annoyed that issa himself did not show up. for his part, issa says he saw this more as a meeting among staff members and what he really needs to do is question seamus directly. democrats though, including the top democratic on issa's own committee, are calling this ridiculous, false controversy and theater. michaela.