You don't have a right to know

......boy, oh boy.....there is more.....

That is what was said during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing.

Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the congressional delegate from the District of Columbia, had a rather angry message for the American people that Obama’s White House should not be held up to Congressional scrutiny. She said there’s “no right to know” what Barack Obama is doing behind closed doors.

“You don’t have a right to know everything in a separation-of-powers government, my friend. That is the difference between a parliamentary government and a separation-of-powers government,” Norton said.
Flying in the face of liberal democratic notions of openness and transparency – especially with a presidency that claims to be “open and transparent,” she argued the very committee charged with oversight shouldn’t be asking questions.
She made the comments while protesting the committee’s Republican majority for voting to ignore a claim by the White House that David Simas, director of it’s Office of Political Strategy and Outreach, was immune to a congressional subpoena to testify. Republicans believe the office is being used a political campaign operation, a violation of federal election law.
The White House’s use of executive powers has enabled it to ignore practically every congressional inquiry – lying, refusing to answer congressional inquiries and ignoring subpoenas.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland), gave a “me too” to Norton’s comments, thanking her and making it perfectly clear that we don’t have the right to know what’s going on in the White House.

Need we have to remind these people that WE pay their salaries and have EVERY right to know????
We are well past the expiration date on all these "folks".