Cummings (D) Blasts Issa (R) For Breaking Own Rules On Trip To Libya

[Tx4obama]

Cummings Blasts Issa For Breaking Own Rules On Trip To Libya

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), the ranking member on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, blasted Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) on Friday for violating his own rules dictating committee travel on a newly announced trip to Libya.

Issa scheduled a congressional delegation to Libya next week as part of his investigation into the attacks upon a U.S. consulate in Benghazi last year. In a letter sent Friday, Cummings called on Issa to postpone the trip because it failed to specify a clear enough purpose and provide sufficient opportunity for Democratic lawmakers to join the delegation.

“Although you claim that your investigation of the Benghazi attacks is bipartisan, your efforts to secretly plan an official trip to Libya—and then deliberately exclude Democrats from joining—is part of an unfortunate pattern of partisanship that undermines the credibility of this investigation," Cummings said. "The problem with these actions is that they effectively deny Democratic Members the ability to effectively investigate this incident.”

Read the full letter below:

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Article with copy of the full letter, here: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/cummings-blasts-issa-for-breaking-own-rules-on-trip-to-libya

[Thinkingabout]

1. Darrel Issa is still a crook, he is desperate to keep Benghazi alive so the scandal is about

Issa trying to make nothing stick, he is just wasting time and money. There was no way our jets could have arrived in time and so many other details could not have been changed.

[Marie Marie]

2. Issa blows.

And, I am sick of his ass face and the gas that spews from it. That is all.

[davidpdx]

3. How long is Issa going to get away with this shit?

[Cha]

5. Hopefully not past 2015!

[Cha]

4. K&R for Elijah! thanks Tx!

[DFW]

6. Cummings disregards the one rule that trumps all others in the House:

The IOKIYAR rule supersedes all others, including rules made up by the Republicans who then violate them.

[Sunlei]

7. was to be a 'secret trip' untill plans were exposed. We still don't know WHO he was to meet with!!

My personal red flags scream a warning over this. More than anything republicans have been caught at in years.

[Purveyor]

8. Libyan Leader Says Conditions Not Favorable For Successful Benghazi Probe Into US Deaths

Libyan Leader Says Conditions Not Favorable For Successful Benghazi Probe Into US Deaths

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023713099