House Panel Wants to Question Obama Aides The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday asked President Obama to allow seven top aides to be interviewed by Congressional investigators about recent reports in the news media about such national security matters as cyberwar against Iran and the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Several of the reports appeared in The New York Times. In a letter to Mr. Obama, the committee chairman, Representative Lamar Smith, Republican of Texas, asked for interviews with the White House national security officials Thomas E. Donilon, Antony Blinken, Denis R. McDonough, Audrey Tomason and John O. Brennan, as well as with the director of national intelligence, James R. Clapper Jr., and a former White House chief of staff, William M. Daley. A White House spokesman declined to comment.