Oversight Chairman Accused Of Leaking Misleading Information About Obamacare Implementation

[deminks]

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/11/08/2917701/oversight-chairman-accused-leaking-misleading-information-obamacare-implementation/

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are accusing Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) of selectively leaking misinformation about HealthCare.gov in an effort to portray administration officials as misleading the public about the implementation of Obamacare.

On Thursday, Issa appeared on Fox News and claimed that he had obtained documents proving that contractors working on Healthcare.gov believed that the site could only handle 1,100 users before launch, undermining claims from U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. Both had publicly stated that the administration believed that the site could handle 60,000 concurrent users.

But in a letter to Issa, Rep. Ellijah Cummings (D-MD), the ranking member on the Committee, pointed to an interview Issa’s own staff conducted with Henry Chao, the Deputy Information Officer. Chao explained that the 1,000 figure were “the results of a much smaller testing environment” and were not conducted “with final production testing of the system at full capacity.”

“The estimates for the full (Obamacare) website environment were considerably higher,” Cummings writes, adding, “(I)t is reckless and highly irresponsible to make unsubstantiated public allegations by taking information out of context, especially when the Committee has information in its possession that directly contradicts these unfounded allegations.”

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Issa, again. How can an oversight chairman make his career out of fake scandals? Isn't he supposed to investigate rather than fabricate? Wonder if he knows who launched the ddos against the ACA website.

[Scuba]

1. Since our side refuses to take the offensive, we'll always be defending the gish gallop.

[tanyev]

2. Didn't he already do that with OMGhazi?