Peter Suderman asks an excellent question:
The administration had evidence indicating that a young advance team member, who was also the child of a lobbyist-and-donor-turned-administration-staffer, was involved in a potentially embarrassing incident with a prostitute while serving as a member of the presidential advance team—and yet explicitly denied that this was the case, and also appears to have pressured independent investigators to delay and withhold evidence until after the election was over.
And the question the story raises is: If the White House was so determined to cover up this embarassing but relatively minor incident, what larger stories has the White House suppressed or covered up that we don’t know about?
Yes. And that doesn’t even count the ones that we do know about.
It’s in fact similar to the question I asked about Penn State that resulted in Michael Mann suing me.
[Update a few minutes later]
Why the Columbia prostitute scandal matters:
More than sex, the story is about nepotism, favoritism, credibility, and the president’s safety.
Yes, it sort of encapsulates the depths of hypocrisy, criminality and corruption of “the most transparent administration in history.”
This is the first purported scandal of the Obama administration that appears to involve an actual White House cover up. The original “crime” — a volunteer hiring a prostitute in a city where prostitution is legal — is no big deal. And I can understand not wanting to lump that in with the Secret Service agents’ wrongdoing. But covering it up, and retaliating against investigators trying to get the whole story, is over the line.
So there IS a line. Good.
Now that you’ve opened your eyes a crack, you may want to glance at Fast and Furious. Or the whole Benghazi videotape thing. Or the IRS. Or the NSA. Or Enterovirus. Or voter ID.
Not holding my breath.
Enterovirus?
On the subject of voter ID, a GAO study concluded that voter ID laws cut turnout by 2%, disproportionately among the young and minorities. Such laws are clearly more effective at stopping legitimate votes than they are at stopping vote fraud.
You’re so predictable. I appended one thing on my list that isn’t actually an Obama administration scandal, and that’s where you focus. I gave you a squirrel and you chased it up a tree.
Oh, and don’t pretend you haven’t heard of the polio-like virus that has magically appeared in US schools, which is completely unrelated to the flood of illegal immigrant children this summer.
Then again, I suppose if your worldview depends on you not seeing the obvious, feel free to close your eyes again. Things are always better in imaginaryworld.
It’s too bad the hard drives didn’t crash. Why don’t you say its a War on Women like everyone else?
“This is the first purported scandal of the Obama administration that appears to involve an actual White House cover up.”
You have the DOJ coordinating political attacks with Democrat activist media groups and document leaks with congressional Democrats. The IRS continues to persecute political dissidents. These things don’t happen over and over without White House approval.
I don’t agree. It was an intern. Come on. Hell of a lot more important things to investigate about Obama.
Bob Clark
Besides, it’s only about sex — right?
Now if HE was doing Obama in the White House that would be a story.
Bob Clark 😉
What makes it an issue is that the Obama administration lied about it. It was a small thing, why bother lying? But then again, this administration lies all the time out of habit, even when they don’t need to.
Other than being caught in another lie, I am not sure what else there is to discover. Obama lied and punished career people while letting his cronies get promotions. Pretty much the story of his administration. In this case, doesn’t look like a law was broken.