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

Twitchy ^ | 5-12-2013 | Twitchy Staff

[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....

[savedbygrace]

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.

[Norm Lenhart]

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....

[NonValueAdded]

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.

[FreedomPoster]

They need to bring in Petraeus as well.

[smoothsailing]

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

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

[what's up]

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

[devolve]

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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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[crosslink]

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

[.45 Long Colt]

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.

[opentalk]

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).

[Reo]

"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.

[opentalk]

... 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.

[Mark17]

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.

[Future Snake Eater]

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

[Lucky9teen]

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.

[keats5]

“Issa for speaker!”

Oh my. That would be wonderful!

[Old Yeller]

Dispose Hellery and Hussein too.

[Hotlanta Mike]

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

[Hotlanta Mike]

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

[tractorman]

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