Darrell Issa’s Lies Create an Uncomfortable Scrutiny of His Criminal Background (LINK FIXED)

[Tx4obama]

Darrell Issa’s Lies Create an Uncomfortable Scrutiny of His Criminal Background

Ari Melber, co-host of “The Cycle”, joined Martin Bashir on his show Thursday evening to denounce Darrell Issa’s unprecedented behavior and charges toward Obama and Eric Holder. Ari pointed out that Issa’s unfounded accusations have caused several journalists to begin digging into his checkered past. It’s not pretty.

People in glass houses…

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Rest of article here: http://www.politicususa.com/darrell-issas-lies-create-uncomfortable-scrutiny-criminal-background.html

LOTS of good stuff in the article, so much so I couldn't decide what to use in the excerpt.

A Good Read

[donco]

1. your link goes

to post page.

[Tx4obama]

4. Link up in OP is fixed now. Sorry about that :(

[gateley]

2. Ooooh -- thanks! I'd seen a reference (but no real info)

on Issa's "record", so I'm looking forward to seeing this.

[Tx4obama]

6. I fixed the link up in the OP, sorry about that.

[gateley]

12. Got it -- thanks!!

[immoderate]

3. Got a link that works?

--imm

[Tx4obama]

5. Link up in OP is fixed now. Sorry about that :(

[immoderate]

7. Thank you kindly!

--imm

[patrice]

8. K&R& Shared.

[Cha]

9. Yeah, how'd that work out for him?..

Naturally, this is the man the Republicans vested with total power to investigate the Obama administration for any reason at any time. You don’t appoint someone with actual ethics to do your dirty work, because, well, that wouldn’t work. “Now that he had been given the power to subpoena, investigate, and harass the Obama Administration, Issa was being described as a future leader of his party—and the man most likely to weaken the President before the 2012 election…”

thanks Tx

[Thinkingabout]

10. Let's see, I don't think Issa has released all the information we need on himself. We need to

subpoena his records and have a hearing. I wonder how he will survive this trash on himself, just what we need a criminal in Congress. Probably why he would be against criminal background checks.

[Samantha]

17. Doesn't matter

Boehner said he wanted to know who was going to jail and now we have a head to hand him.

Sam

[pacalo]

11. "Sounds as though the man's *torching* his own position as head of that very oversight committee."

I love Bashir's biting humor.

Issa's "rap sheet":

1. Issa was arrested for stealing a red Masserati.

2. Issa was later arrested in another incident for having a .25 Colt & 44 rounds of ammo & a tear gas gun with two rounds of ammo for it.

3. While in the Army, Issa was arrested again for car theft; this time, he was indicted for grand theft.

4. Soon after evading prosecution for grand theft, Issa committed a "hit & run".

5. As owner of a car alarm factory, Issa fired an employee by giving him a box with a gun in it.

6. Officials highly suspected, but were unable to prove, that Issa committed arson of his factory.

MARTIN BASHIR: Just on that, sorry, before we move off, that warehouse and that fire seemed to coincide with him just before the fire raising his insurance policy from $100,000 to $400,000.

ARI MELBER: That’s right. He took out a significant increase in the insurance and there was also an accident report that “The New Yorker” discovered that talked about the fact that the nature of the fire didn’t match up with the kind of — kind of accidental arson — nonarson, I should say, accidental fire that could have occurred.

[Jim Lane]

13. In Issa's defense, he didn't bilk the insurance company.

Of course, that's because the company was very suspicious of the fire and refused to pay more than a fraction of the claim:

Joey Adkins, the former owner of Steal Stopper, provided the main evidence against Issa. On the afternoon of September 20, 1982, in a lengthy recorded interview with an insurance investigator, he described a series of suspicious actions by Issa before the fire. Adkins, who still worked for Steal Stopper, said that Issa removed the company’s Apple II computer from the building, including “all hardware, all software, all the instruction books,” and also “the discs for accounts payable, accounts receivable, customer list, everything.” According to Adkins, Issa also transferred a copy of every design used by Steal Stopper from a filing cabinet to a fireproof box. He also said that Issa put in the box some important silk screens used in the production of circuit boards. Insurance officials noted that, less than three weeks before the fire, Issa had increased his insurance from a hundred thousand dollars to four hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars. “Quite frankly,” Adkins told the investigator, “I feel the man set the fire.”

The Ohio state fire marshal never determined the cause of the fire and no one was ever charged with a crime. According to Issa, St. Paul paid Quantum twenty-five thousand dollars, but refused to pay his claim for the Steal Stopper inventory. Issa sued St. Paul for a hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, and the two parties eventually settled out of court for about twenty thousand dollars. (from "Don't Look Back", in The New Yorker) (emphasis added)

IOW, on a policy for $462k, he collected $45k. Someone didn't want that case to go to trial.

[Segami]

14. Just another punk crook in a cheap suit!

[MNBrewer]

15. It would be really nice if that scum bucket took a fall

[silvershadow]

16. I will gladly bump for more scrutiny on Issa. I am as happy to type the words scrutiny on Issa

any chance I legitimately get as I am to type the words Joe Scarborough's dead intern any chance I get when the opportunity arises.

[Samantha]

18. When you look into the abyss

yada yada yada....

Issa has been staring it down for decades.

Sam

[blkmusclmachine]

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