The latest back-and-forth comes as the panel is wrapping up work on its long-running investigation.

The White House and the House Select Committee on Benghazi are at a standoff over whether President Barack Obama should answer a series of questions about the 2012 terrorist attack in Libya that left four Americans dead.

Neil Eggleston, counsel to the president, blasted the committee for sending the president a list of questions about the attack — an inquiry the administration deemed inappropriate and a partisan attempt to frame the White House as uncooperative.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/white-house-benghazi-obama-224813

So is he trying to say that a servant of the people, charged with the powers of the CIC on that day, and in communication with the SOS and others as these events unfolded that day is above answering questions?

If so, why?

"Is he trying to say that a servant of the people, charged with the powers of the CIC on that day, and in communication with the SOS and others as these events unfolded that day is above answering questions?

If so, why?"

Trey Gowdy Slams Obama Over His Latest Insult

This made the White House go nuclear.

Politico also reports:

“Eggleston has encouraged Obama not to answer the committee’s questions “because of the implications of his response on the constitutional separation of powers,” according to a letter sent Saturday to Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) and obtained by POLITICO.

“If the president were to answer your questions, his response would suggest that Congress has the unilateral power to demand answers from the president about his official acts,” the letter reads.

Eggleston also accused the panel of asking questions it already knew the answer to — something the committee denies.”

Republicans on the committee believe the White House has obstructed their work from day one.

The administration has been less than forthcoming in producing witnesses.

And now they are stonewalling a legitimate inquiry – which does not threaten the separation of powers – made by the committee.

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