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Darrell Issa: House Oversight Committee to depose Pickering and Mullen over Benghazi
Twitchy ^ | 5-12-2013 | Twitchy Staff

Posted on 05/12/2013 12:11:33 PM PDT by smoothsailing

May 12, 2013

Darrell Issa: House Oversight Committee to depose Pickering and Mullen over Benghazi

Twitchy Staff

Darrell Issa reports that the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which he chairs, will depose Ambassador Thomas Pickering and Admiral Mike Mullen over Benghazi....

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To: smoothsailing

Depose? Sounds a lot more serious than the usual congressional hearings.

And that is appropriate. What we have here is a lot more serious than some bureaucrats rewriting talking points.

What we have here is the President of the United States REFUSING to send military help to an Ambassador and others who were under deadly terrorist attack.

And the national media has been trying to whitewash it.


41 posted on 05/12/2013 1:02:57 PM PDT by savedbygrace (But God.)
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To: Travis McGee

Considering that pretty much every other base on the planet has aircraft ‘on alert’ or close to it pretty much 24/7/365 I don’t know how this fool thinks the couple closest to the problem miraculously didn’t...In a rather ‘hot’ spot of the world, no less...On Sept 11....


42 posted on 05/12/2013 1:04:01 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Shadow44

Please, Issa, proceed at a pace slightly faster than a glacier this time. I mean, Fast and Furious? That sure as heckfire does not describe your progress to date.


43 posted on 05/12/2013 1:04:22 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (3 guns when you only have one arm? "I just don't want to get killed for lack of shooting back")
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To: smoothsailing

They need to bring in Petraeus as well.


44 posted on 05/12/2013 1:04:46 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Uncle Chip

Then Hillary’s by definition wasn’t a deposition...

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/deposition


45 posted on 05/12/2013 1:10:04 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: bigbob

Once Issa hit the EO on F&F there’s not much more he can do other than wait for the court’s decision.


46 posted on 05/12/2013 1:19:02 PM PDT by what's up
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To: Travis McGee

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20 hours - to prepare - launch - get to Benghazi

Isn’t Dempsey the little homo-General that said Fort Hood should be kept quiet and not blame that Muzzie or terrorism?

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47 posted on 05/12/2013 1:21:54 PM PDT by devolve ( ------- I*ve gotcher magic bullshiite right here 0pansy ---------)
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To: Travis McGee

Pickering also admitted they did not record any of the testimony of any of the witnesses . How convenient .


48 posted on 05/12/2013 1:37:13 PM PDT by crosslink (Moderates should play in the middle of a busy street)
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To: Shadow44

I wouldn’t mind Issa for Speaker. But since Speaker doesn’t have to be a sitting House member I would love to see them appoint someone with spine who would blow liberal minds, someone like Colonel West or Ben Carson or Walter Williams or Thomas Sowell. Of course he need not be black, but somehow I love the idea of the regime having to deal with a bold and effective black conservative.


49 posted on 05/12/2013 1:37:57 PM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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To: smoothsailing

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3016780/posts

... it was during Mullen’s tenure on the Joint Chiefs that the Defense Department labeled the Fort Hood atrocity “workplace violence,” filing a lengthy investigative report that –in Benghazi ARB fashion –omitted any mention of “Islam” and “jihad” in analyzing thirteen murders carried out by a jihadist who,after consulting with al Qaeda’s Awlaki,screamed “Allahu Akbar!” as he pumped round after round into American soldiers. It was also during Mullen’s stint that the Defense Department purged intelligence training materials of information Obama’s Brotherhood consultants found to be disparaging of Islam (i.e.,any information demonstrating that Islamic supremacist ideology is virulently anti-Western and leads,inexorably,to violence).


50 posted on 05/12/2013 1:49:59 PM PDT by opentalk
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To: Cap Huff
"I understand that Pickering was on one of the Sunday talk programs oozing some . . . . spin."

Pickering was on MTP and was interviewed along with Issa by DNC Dave. Pickering looked to me to be very defensive and nervous, while Issa seemed confident and very much in control of both his facts and the conversation. DNC Dave, as usual, looked like a dork.

51 posted on 05/12/2013 1:50:28 PM PDT by Reo (the 4th Estate is a 5th Column)
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... What a surprise that Pickering and Mullen should conduct an embarrassment of an investigation that fails to interview key witnesses (including,of course,Mrs. Clinton),and that fails to grapple with key events –like the infamous Susan Rice “talking points” that became increasingly fraudulent precisely because Clinton’s State Department kept pressing for more massaging of the facts.


52 posted on 05/12/2013 1:52:13 PM PDT by opentalk
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To: Shadow44
Issa for speaker!

I would suspect that Issa already knows the answers to many of the questions he will ask, when those dirt bags lie under oath.

53 posted on 05/12/2013 2:01:26 PM PDT by Mark17
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To: smoothsailing

Mullen’s a real piece of work. This could be interesting.


54 posted on 05/12/2013 2:10:10 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: Uncle Chip; Cowboy Bob; kitchen
From http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/deposition

Deposition testimony is taken orally, with an attorney asking questions and the deponent (the individual being questioned) answering while a court reporter or tape recorder (or sometimes both) records the testimony.

Deposition testimony is generally taken under oath, and the court reporter and the deponent often sign affidavits attesting to the accuracy of the subsequent printed transcript.

From http://www.expertlaw.com/library/expert_witness/deposition_prep.html

A deposition is a question-and-answer session that takes place in an attorney’s office. Usually present are the attorneys for the parties, the parties themselves, and a court reporter. The answers you give at a deposition are testimony. The court reporter swears you in and you answer the questions under oath. It is no different from you testifying in court.

From http://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?selected=495

deposition

n. the taking and recording of testimony of a witness under oath before a court reporter in a place away from the courtroom before trial. A deposition is part of permitted pre-trial discovery (investigation), set up by an attorney for one of the parties to a lawsuit demanding the sworn testimony of the opposing party (defendant or plaintiff), a witness to an event, or an expert intended to be called at trial by the opposition. If the person requested to testify (deponent) is a party to the lawsuit or someone who works for an involved party, notice of time and place of the deposition can be given to the other side's attorney, but if the witness is an independent third party, a subpena must be served on him/her if he/she is reluctant to testify. The testimony is taken down by the court reporter, who will prepare a transcript if requested and paid for, which assists in trial preparation and can be used in trial either to contradict (impeach) or refresh the memory of the witness, or be read into the record if the witness is not available.
55 posted on 05/12/2013 2:16:30 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.~Thomas Jeffer)
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To: Shadow44

“Issa for speaker!”

Oh my. That would be wonderful!


56 posted on 05/12/2013 2:27:28 PM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: smoothsailing

Dispose Hellery and Hussein too.


57 posted on 05/12/2013 2:28:25 PM PDT by Old Yeller
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To: smoothsailing

Poor 80+ year old Pickering is going to have a heart attack...


58 posted on 05/12/2013 2:30:25 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great natiorn is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: Travis McGee; All

The twelve minute video that could make Jay Carney curl up in the fetal position

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/05/the_twelve_minute_that_would_make_jay_carney_curl_up_in_the_fetal_position.html


59 posted on 05/12/2013 2:33:48 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great natiorn is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: Mark17

A good lawyer never asks a question without knowing the answer.


60 posted on 05/12/2013 2:41:27 PM PDT by tractorman (I never miss a chance to tweak a liberal.)
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