What a shock! Someone in this administration hindering a congressional investigation? Say it ain’t so…….. And what has become of the previous cases of administration hindering investigations. Oh that’s right……NOTHING!!

Days after Waxman announced they’d be investigating the Blackwater incident, Condi made several calls to Blackwater and wrote a letter telling them they cannot provide any information to the committee without written approval from the state department.

An ongoing battle between Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and a House committee investigating Iraqi government corruption and the activities of the Blackwater security firm erupted into another skirmish yesterday as Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) accused Rice of interfering with the committee’s work and preventing administration and Blackwater officials from providing pertinent information.

In the latest of a series of exchanges, Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, wrote Rice to urge that she “reconsider the unusual positions you are taking.” Congress has a “constitutional prerogative” to look into the issues, he wrote, and she is “wrong to interfere with the Committee’s inquiry.”

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