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"Maybe the people who think there's a conspiracy out there are right," DeFazio said.
I just hope Congress gets this bastard out of office before he invades Iran.
WASHINGTON -- The White House formally declined Rep. Peter DeFazio's request to view the classified portion of a plan to operate the government after a catastrophe.
Last month the White House had said it would not provide the information to DeFazio, a senior member of the House Homeland Security Committee. So DeFazio and two committee leaders wrote wrote a letter to White House homeland security adviser Frances Townsend formally requesting he be provided access to the documents.
In a response dated Wednesday, Townsend wrote that the White House is "unable to share them with the membership and staff of the Committee."