A week ago (4/24) I wrote about the waste of taxpayer money and the incivility with which Darrell Issa (R-CA) treats his senior colleague on the House Government Oversight Committee. His obsessions with finding and/or creating Democratic scandals is rivaled only by the late Joe McCarthy himself.
Issa latest tactic -- still obsessing about Benghazi, trying to create a scandal out of that -- is to have some retired Army General come before the committee as a star witness and testify about what might have, could have, should have been done to prevent the deaths of our personnel. That's the way Issa does things: partial truths, innuendos, selected leaks of misleading information, and retired military "experts" eager for the spotlight. Then Issa presents all this unholy mix of half truth and distorted snippets of truth as The Truth -- and then cries Scandal !!!!
This time, A FELLOW REPUBLICAN HAS CALLED FOUL. Within hours of the general's testimony before Issa's committee, Rep. Howard McKeon (R-CA) challenged the general's testimony, pointing out that he did not serve in a capacity that gave him reliable insight into operational options available to commanders during the [Behghazi] attack, not did he offer specific courses of action [that were] not taken."
In other words, Rep. Issa, you have to realize this: A fellow House colleague, who is also from California, and also a Republican -- and who also chairs the powerful House Armed Services Committee -- has shot down your star witness in your show (mis)trial.
That's a pretty strong slap in your face, Darrell Issa. Time to wake up and realize you've gone too far, and your fellow GOP colleagues may not tolerate it much longer.
Ralph
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Obviously, Issa hasn't got the message yet. Immediately after I posted the above, headlines were blaring that Issa has summoned Sec. of State John Kerry to testify before his committee on May 21. Kerry wasn't even connected with the State Department when Benghazi happened.
ReplyDeleteOf course, one of the movtives behind this witch hunt is a pre-emptive strike at Hillary Clinton's presidential bid. She was Sec. of State during that time.