More Historically Unprecedented Transparency: WH Blocks Party Crasher Testimony

This simply begs the question: What are they trying to hide? Remember now, every time they announce something it's touted as historic!, it's unprecedented!, it's transparent!, except, uhhhh, now it sure looks like they're desperate to hide something.

The White House on Wednesday invoked the separation of powers to keep Desiree Rogers, President Obama’s social secretary, from testifying on Capitol Hill about how a couple of aspiring reality television show celebrities crashed a state dinner for the prime minister of India last week.

And the couple will not testify, either, according to a statement released late Wednesday by a public relations firm.

The statement says that the Virginia couple, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, have provided to the Secret Service and to the ranking members of the House committee conducting the hearing “all relevant e-mails and cellphone records that detail communications with a White House official,” and can do nothing else to help in the inquiry.

That evidence, the statement says, shows that no laws were broken, that White House protocol “was either deficient or mismanaged” and that there were “honest misunderstandings and mistakes made by all parties involved.”

Earlier Wednesday at his regular briefing with reporters, Mr. Obama’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, said Ms. Rogers would not testify. “I think you know that, based on separation of powers, staff here don’t go to testify in front of Congress,’’ he said. “She won’t — she will not be testifying in front of Congress.’’

So their claim to "get to the bottom" of this mess is nonsense.

The woman named Michele Jones, who works for Robert Gates, should also be testifying.

Imagine the media howls if it was Dick Cheney or George W. Bush pulling a stunt like that. Bu the Obamamedia will simply let it slide.