John Kerry won't testify before House Oversight Committee after all(Issa backing Gowdy Select Comm.)

The Washington Examiner ^ | 5-30-2014 | Joel Gehrke

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TOPICS: HOUSE OVERSIGHT

John Kerry won't testify before House Oversight Committee after all

BY JOEL GEHRKE | MAY 30, 2014 | 2:08 PM

Secretary of State John Kerry won't testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about the Benghazi terrorist attacks after all.

Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., dropped his subpoena in order to eliminate a State Department argument against Kerry appearing before the House Select Committee on Benghazi chaired by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., who sits on the regular oversight panel with Issa.

"We have been clear that we're willing to work with the committee, despite the fact that the Benghazi oversight has been consolidated under the select committee," State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters last week.

"We believe the secretary’s appearance before HOGR will eliminate any need for the secretary to appear a second time before the select committee," Harf said.

Issa released Kerry from the subpoena Friday. “Seeing Secretary Kerry and others, who have worked to obstruct critical oversight of Congress’ investigations into Benghazi, attempt to use the upcoming June 12 hearing as a shield against the Select Committee tells me it’s time to reassess," he said.

"As much as we fought to learn what we could, bring critical witnesses forward, and shame the administration into disclosing more than it originally intended, I expect the select committee’s unified jurisdiction will afford it better access to the complete picture than any of its investigative predecessors," Issa said.

"In attempting to cover up documents like the September 14 e-mail from Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, President Obama, Secretary Kerry, and other officials have no one but themselves to blame for the increased scrutiny they should soon expect,” he said.

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yea, a real secretary of state would have brought our Marine back from that Mexican jail cell long ago...

let’s get a real secretary of state
and then there will be a vacancy open up
down there
for Kerry

just as you say
thanks

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Good news indeed! Issa is shutting down, making way for a united front behind Trey Gowdy and the Select Committee.

Kerry, Obama, and Clinton are deeply saddened. Cummings has gone in to therapy.

HA~!

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Exactly. I knew you’d know what I meant! B^)

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Issa really is doing the right thing, I imagine he and Gowdy had some kind of serious conversation on this. :-)

Cummings has gone in to therapy.

LOL! I love it!

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Jaz, FYI. Mrs. Smooth bought a change purse at the Dollar Store the other day and found this tag on it when she got it home. No joke! Neither one of us had ever seen a tag like this before. Have you? LOL!

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PERFECT !!!

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I suppose that warning tag on something from CA doesn’t surprise me though like you and the wife I’ve never seen or heard of it, I even called to Mrs. Jaz to ask her and she hasn’t either.

Though CA is our home state we don’t miss it in the least and it has to be much worse now than when we moved north.

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That didn't take long for John Fraud Kerry to chicken out.
Rather like three imaginary Purple Heart wounds to cut & run from Viet Nam.

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maybe he consulted his magic hat.