Issa's witch hunt flops

[rpannier]

House Government Reform and Oversight Committee Chairman Darrel Issa has led one partisan witch hunt after another since his party became the majority and he became committee chair. But his latest grasping-at-straws attempt to shame Democrats has blown up in his face.

Rep. Issa accused Democratic appointees on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) -- the independent commission established in 2009 to investigate the causes of the financial crisis -- of financial mismanagement, disclosing confidential information, conflicts of interest and unethically pursuing a partisan agenda. But the documents produced in this investigation not only failed to substantiate these claims, they actually demonstrated improprieties by some of the Republicans on the Commission.

Outrageously, upon canceling a committee hearing on the FCIC accusations, an Issa staffer was quoted as saying, "they had found some documents at the last minute that didn't fit the narrative." A report by committee Democrats, based on 400,000 internal FCIC emails, memos and other documents, shows that those documents didn't just "not fit" Issa's narrative, they outright refuted them!

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There is evidence that Republican FCIC Commissioners Peter Wallison and Bill Thomas violated ethics guidelines and shared confidential information about the commission's work with political insiders and Republican consultants. And contrary to the FCIC's mission, Republican Commissioner Wallison repeatedly urged his GOP colleagues on the FCIC to use their positions on the Commission to help Republicans in their efforts to repeal the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill.

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I don't have a link for this. It came from to my e-mail from People for the American Way ( www.PFAW.org ) but I can't find it on their webpage

I did find this link with the story
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/dems_issa_scraped_hearing_on_financial_commission_because_docs_wouldnt_fit_his_narrative.php

[AmandaRuth]

1. based on 400,000 emails.....

Well,,,,,,

It's not like they are digging, or anything.

[pinboy3niner]

2. K&R

Did Issa go through with his plans to double the committee staff to investigate Democrats? He'd said he wanted to do that, which was pretty funny coming from the guy who once told Glenn Beck that voters ought to throw out anyone--Democrat or Republican--who supported bigger government.

Although I'm not in Issa's district, I donated to his challenger last year.