Democrat Rep. to Republican Colleagues: ‘You Don’t Have a Right to Know Everything’ Going on in Government

◼ Speaking during a Congressional hearing Friday on the White House decision to ignore a House subpoena of David Simas, Obama’s director of the Office of Political Strategy and Outreach, Norton admonished her Republican colleagues with the following statement: - IJ Review

“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.”

Aside from the fact that this administration promised to be (and claims that it is) the “most transparent administration in history,” Norton is telling the Congressional Oversight Committee – whose very charge is overseeing the Executive Branch of the Federal Government – that it doesn’t have a right to do so....