Snow: Congress Has No “Oversight Responsibility over the White House”

By Paul Kiel, tpmmuckraker.com

It’s official, this is a talking point. Just to show that this morning was no slip-up, here’s Tony Snow during today’s briefing:

…There are — in this particular case, the Department of Justice — the Congress does have legitimate oversight responsibility for the Department of Justice. It created the Department of Justice. It does not have constitutional oversight responsibility over the White House, which is why by our reaching out, we’re doing something that we’re not compelled to do by the Constitution, but we think common sense suggests that we ought to get the whole story out, which is what we’re doing.

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