Congress May Subpoena White House Phone Logs From NSA

Talk about something coming back to bite you in the ass! I doubt if the White House ever thought that there was a downside risk to NSA's metadata collecting but if Congressman Steve Stockman has his way it could the biggest White House revelation since Alexander Butterfield told Sam Erwin's committee about the White House taping system. In a letter to Darrell Issa Stockman asks him to subpoena all NSA records of phone calls between employees of the White House and the IRS. OMG!

“Obama says the PRISM program is perfectly legal, so there should be no problem whatsoever in providing the information on White House and IRS phone calls.”

Here is Stockman's letter:

Chairman Issa:

Thank you for your ongoing efforts to investigate abuses of civil liberties by employees of the Internal Revenue Service.
These abuses seem to indicate a larger, higher pattern of ideologically-driven harassment of Americans which Congress has an obligation to fully investigate with every tool at our disposal.
Frankly I am disappointed by revelations Obama administration personnel have been less than forward about what they knew and when they knew it.
As you know, recent revelations the National Security Agency has been keeping an “ongoing, daily” log of every domestic phone call in the United States.
I respectfully request your Committee subpoena the records of every phone call made from all public and private telephones of all IRS personnel to all public and private telephones of all White House personnel.
If President Obama is collecting such information, he certainly would want us to use it.  If he has nothing to hide he has nothing to be afraid of.
Warmest wishes,
STEVE STOCKMAN
Member of Congress