Posted on 06/16/2015 9:56:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Outspoken Republican Congressman Darrell Issa tried to crash a deposition Tuesday on Benghazi, but was promptly escorted out from the closed-door panel on Capitol Hill.
Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., the chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, had no qualms about personally kicking out Issa, the former House Oversight Committee chairman.
"I'm a prosecutor, we always follow the rules," Gowdy later told NBC News. "[Issa] is not a [Benghazi] committee member and non-committee members are not allowed in the room during the deposition. Those are the rules and we have to follow them, no exceptions made."
The moment just after Issa was booted from the room was also caught on camera. Gowdy threw his hands up as Issa, R-Calif., stormed off.
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***Toothless Tigers Alert***
What’s Issa trying to pull?
Issa to Gowdy: Just checking that you’re f——ing up the investigation as well as I did.
“Issa to Gowdy: Just checking that you’re f——ing up the investigation as well as I did.”
Man is that ever the truth! Issa is just another worthless GOPE turd doing Boner’s bidding. I just wished we had enough votes to topple him now, and the will to do it.
Wow. Kabuki theatrics inside a Kabuki theater.
Issa has yet to accomplish a damn thing with his endless investigations, he should be booted out. Enough of his kabuki BS.
Not even half a year and the House GOP has jumped a fleet of sharks.
I realized he was insane when I saw him on HBO on the Maher show.
Attention Whore Mental Case.
The antics tonight are just Lagniappe.
Trying to do for Benghazi what he did for F&F.
I’ve been saying this for a while. Issa (who actually has quite the blue-collar background, not that there’s anything wrong with that) but is absolutely no way no how a lawyer, has this thing where he likes to pretened he is a lawyer. And this unfortunate trait has very seriously impeded if not outright sabotaged previous investigations because he does NOT know the art of cross-examination. He ask questions that do not entrap the witness which is exactly the aim of cross examination. Instead, with his sloppiness, he allows the witness to create a bi- or tri- furcated answer and this in turn creates an ever-expanding field of uncertainty. It is exactly the wrong thing to do. Instead of narrowing down, the effect of his clumsy questioning is to widen out.
He was!!! LOL
And by the way, the $1K/hour attorneys defending Lois Lerner picked up this “let’s pretend I am a lawyer” thing on Issa’s part and IMMEDIATELY exploited it.
Sidney Blumenthal claims no first-hand knowledge of Benghazi, says personal email hacked
Come on!!....give him 2-3 more terms and he’ll solve all this “kabuki” $hit...
“I’ve been saying this for a while. Issa (who actually has quite the blue-collar background, not that there’s anything wrong with that) but is absolutely no way no how a lawyer, has this thing where he likes to pretened he is a lawyer. And this unfortunate trait has very seriously impeded if not outright sabotaged previous investigations because he does NOT know the art of cross-examination. He ask questions that do not entrap the witness which is exactly the aim of cross examination. Instead, with his sloppiness, he allows the witness to create a bi- or tri- furcated answer and this in turn creates an ever-expanding field of uncertainty. It is exactly the wrong thing to do. Instead of narrowing down, the effect of his clumsy questioning is to widen out.”
Committee chairmen have staff lawyers, Issa was a highly successful businessman, so no excuse.
Don’t forget though, the witness is hostile, it is political, and they too have lawyers.
Issa’s prank is lowgrade. I believe Gowdy would be upset that it demeans his professional effort.
Come on!!....give him 2-3 more terms and he’ll solve all this “kabuki” $hit...
Frankly, I liked Issa. I thought he did fine, but with as many as five committees competing on the same subject, it was a confusing matter of who’s on first, who’s on second and the cover up was in full sail at the time.
Now there is ONE committee and a the clever, cute kid running it is a prosecutor with a reputation. Trey Gowdy.
He is the best I’ve seen and there have been some greats at questioning witnesses.
I like him because he has said from the beginning that expectations are low that while under this president and this Justice Department that the Benghazi events will ever be resolved.
He will build the case block by block anyway, so that after 2016 maybe we can hope to hear it and resolve it. It will haunt Hillary nicely next summer, right during the heat of the her campaign battle. That suits me fine.
Then he should be able to produce an email to Hillary advising her that all those first-hand, on-the-ground reports "he" sent her were BS, hacked by Islamists....
And Issa, by trying to crash Gowdy's panel, is just adding more confusion to the process. He had his chance. Now he should get out of the way! It's Gowdy's turn to drop the ball.
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