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Saturday, October 20, 2012

But Who Will Investigate Darrell Issa?

      Issa has long been a dangerous crank promising to find another trumped up scandal against the President every day of the week if possible. He has one goal and that's to harm the Administration in any way he can. If the President does win-I believe he will-Issa may still be a thorn in the side-unless the American people have the good sense to get rid of the House GOP-which according to some is actually a distinct possibility.

      http://themonkeycage.org/blog/2012/09/24/do-democrats-have-a-75-chance-of-taking-back-the-house/

      Until now, Issa's most ludicrous crusade was in claiming that Fast and Furious was all about a nefarious plot by the Obama Administration to take away everybody's guns. That the operation started in the Bush Administration is the kind of  pesky fact that Issa doesn't trouble himself with. No doubt he's no more impressed by the fact-checkers than is Mitt Romney.

      Now in his zeal to embarrass the President and play the blame game on the terrorist attacks on our embassy in Libya which claimed 4 tragic lives-including our Libyan Ambassador, Chris Stevens-whose father has asked Romney to stop trying to politicize his death-Issa has shown he couldn't be a doctor anyway, as he has already done a lot of harm.

      First do no harm is not an edict he lives by, evidently. In his investigations on the attacks he's managed to compromise sensitive CIA information that shouldn't have been released to the public. Not only has the CIA's cover been blown-can't help but recall Valerie Plame, another instance of the GOP compromising our national security and those officers who are there to protect it for partisan political gain-many Libyan civilians are now at risk if their names were on the released dossiers.

     As John Kerry says, it's simply unforgivable:

     "Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) criticized House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R- Calif.) for releasing 166 pages of "sensitive but unclassified" State Department cables that contained the names of Libyans working within the United States."

     "It is irresponsible and inexcusable, and perhaps worst of all it was entirely avoidable," Kerry said. "It is profoundly against America's interests in a difficult region."

     "The Obama administration has also criticized Issa for leaking the documents, which relate to the September attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and four others."

     "Administration officials told Foreign Policy magazine the leak, along with Issa's failure to redact the names of Libyan civilians and local leaders mentioned in the cables, could have "unintended consequences."

     "This does damage to the individuals because they are named, danger to security cooperation because these are militias and groups that we work with and that is now well known, and danger to the investigation, because these people could help us down the road," an administration official said.

     http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/20/john-kerry-darrell-issa-_n_1992826.html?ref=topbar

  

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