Dems: Issa Scrapped Hearing On Financial Commission Because Docs Wouldn't Fit His Narrative

[kpete]

Source: Talking Points Memo

Democrats are accusing House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) of canceling a hearing on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission this week because his committee uncovered documents which wouldn't have fit his narrative about what went wrong with the agency.

Peter Kadzick, an attorney for FCIC Chairman Phil Angelides, told TPM that Angelides arrived in D.C. on Sunday night for the Wednesday morning hearing but was told by an Issa staffer on Monday evening that "they had found some documents at the last minute that didn't fit the narrative."

The Democrat's report on the committee's investigation says that Issa's accusations about the FCIC were "largely unsubstantiated."

In addition, Democrats said the information uncovered by congressional investigators "raise a host of new ethical questions about Republican Commissioners and staff, including evidence that they leaked confidential information to outside parties on multiple occasions."

Read more: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/dems_issa_scraped_hearing_on_financial_commission_because_docs_wouldnt_fit_his_narrative.php?ref=fpa

[aquart]

1. Oops.

[lob1]

2. Issa is a card carrying asshole.

[aggiesal]

4. It's in his back pocket !!! n/t

[donheld]

12. It's on his forehead.

[damntexdem]

5. Now that is just unfair -- after all, assholes do carry out important functions.

And that is quite unlike Issa. ;-)

[Downwinder]

3. Worked for Joe McCarthy.

[mulsh]

6. Issa was 4 years old when tailgunner joe died.

Issa is a scummy, lieing car thief and who knows he probably would have worked for Joe if he were older. DA has plenty of skeletons waiting to be unearthed with out making up anything.

[Downwinder]

8. I was thinking of having your narrative without regard for the facts.

[JDPriestly]

7. Issa is no Henry Waxman.

Waxman really has integrity.

Issa -- doesn't really even value integrity, so how in the world is he qualified to investigate anything or anyone?

[SoapBox]

9. Issa is SCUM!

...he's a dirt bag and has done NOTHING good since being in office.

Wake up dumbass voters! Vote this SLIME out!!

[dmosh42]

15. He's also a sack of shit! n/t

[savalez]

10. Here is more on this:

~snip~

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, led by Republican Rep. Darrell Issa of California, sought to investigate allegations that the bipartisan Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission was mismanaged by its Democratic majority, misused taxpayer funds, was compromised by conflicts of interest and colluded with Democrats in Congress as they sought to pass a financial reform bill.

Instead, the 400,000 emails and documents obtained by the investigative committee show that Republican commissioner Peter Wallison broke confidentiality rules by leaking documents to Ed Pinto, a colleague of his at the American Enterprise Institute, a prominent right-leaning Washington-based research and policy organization.

The misconduct did not stop there, according to the report. The assistant of Bill Thomas, the panel's vice chairman and another of the four Republican commissioners, shared information about the commission's hearings, targets and investigative direction with one of Thomas's colleagues at law firm Buchanan, Ingersoll, and Rooney, one of Washington's top lobbying shops. In one case, Thomas's colleague, Alex Brill, asked Thomas's assistant in a March 31, 2010, email about an upcoming hearing on Citigroup for his "friend who represents Citi." The bank was concerned it would be unfairly singled out at its hearing, wrote Brill, who is also the chief executive of economic and political consulting firm Matrix Global Advisors.


read: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/13/financial-crisis-panel-leaks-lobbyists_n_897186.html

[wordpix]

11. not just an asshat, but he has a criminal background/record - indicted on insurance fraud, for one

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Issa

Arson, insurance fraud, car theft...one of the worst of the bad repugs

[riderinthestorm]

13. Kick back to the top for an important story. nt

[ck4829]

14. Kick