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5. Right after Darrel Issa is tried for leaking secrets
Sun Jul 17, 2016, 12:22 PM
Jul 2016
Darrell Issa can’t keep a secret
By Jonathan Capehart October 23, 2012

Okay, I think it’s time for someone to oversee the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The dead-tree edition of Dana Milbank’s column on how the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee blew the CIA’s cover in Libya had barely yellowed when chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) released sensitive documents that could endanger the lives of helpful Libyans.

As Foreign Policy reported last Friday, in his committee’s probe of the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi tragedy, Issa dumped 166 pages of “sensitive but unclassified State Department communications related to Libya” on the committee’s Web site. And he did so without bothering to redact identifying information about the Libyans working with the United States. As a journalist, I’m very much in favor of more information. But I also understand the considerable outrage generated by Issa’s actions.

More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/darrell-issa-cant-keep-a-secret/2012/10/23/701455be-1d11-11e2-b647-bb1668e64058_blog.html


While this is an opinion piece there are links to articles and sources that support the information about Issa and his committee leaking critical, maybe top secret, information.
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