Issa on Sunday: ‘No Evidence Obama Is Involved’ - Today: ‘Obama Must Be Involved’

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Last Sunday hyper-partisan hitman Darrell Issa really screwed up and admitted on Fox News that after 18 months of investigating, he had absolutely no evidence the White House was involved in a cover-up in the “Fast and Furious” case.

Oops! Debunked his own fake outrage! Well, you can bet that Congressman Issa got an earful about this from his Republican cohorts, because after all, the whole purpose of this bogus investigation is to damage President Obama’s chances of reelection, and how can they do that if Issa just spills the beans like a big blabbermouth?

Today, Rep. Issa is trying to make up for this mistake by writing a crazed letter accusing President Obama of being directly involved — exactly what he just said on Sunday he had no evidence to support: Issa Accuses Obama of Involvement in Fast and Furious Operation.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) on Tuesday accused President Obama of either obstructing a congressional investigation or of involvement in the Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation.

In a seven-page letter to the president, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee leveled his most direct allegations yet at Obama just two days ahead of a full House vote on whether to place Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to respond to a subpoena.

Issa took issue with Obama’s assertion of executive privilege over a cache of documents at the Department of Justice — including a February 2011 letter later withdrawn by the agency — that Issa believes includes information on Holder’s role in Fast and Furious.

“Either you or your most senior advisers were involved in managing Operation Fast and Furious and the fallout from it, including the false Feb. 4, 2011 letter provided by the attorney general to the committee,” Issa wrote to Obama. “Or, you are asserting a presidential power that you know to be unjustified solely for the purpose of further obstructing a congressional investigation.”

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37 comments
1 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:27:37am

What a crock of shit this guy is.

2 Kragar  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:29:07am

Issa would never let anything like the complete lack of evidence stop him.

3 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:29:11am

I think the SCOTUS is stepping all over Issa's faux outrage machine this week. Fast and What?

4 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:29:26am

This would be why judges don't run for office every few years.

5 celticdragon  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:29:39am

If Obama wins re-election, this will be how they try to impeach him. A completely manufactured non-occurence that only matters to people trapped in the fever swamps of wingnuttia.

6 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:31:59am

re: #5 celticdragon

If Obama wins re-election, this will be how they try to impeach him. A completely manufactured non-occurence that only matters to people trapped in the fever swamps of wingnuttia.

If Obama gets re-elected, the calls for impeachment will not stop until January 2017...

7 wrenchwench  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:33:59am

Demanding reams of documents = looking for the cover up.

Being denied those documents = PROOF OF THE COVER UP!!!

8 Killgore Trout  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:34:54am

re: #5 celticdragon

If Obama wins re-election, this will be how they try to impeach him. A completely manufactured non-occurence that only matters to people trapped in the fever swamps of wingnuttia.

Yup

GOP senators press Holder for special prosecutor into potential national security leaks
Once they get a special prosecutor anything goes. Just like when Ken Star was appointed to look into Whitewater, it ended with Lewinsky. They'll do it again once they set the dogs loose.

9 RadicalModerate  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:38:22am

re: #8 Killgore Trout

Yup

GOP senators press Holder for special prosecutor into potential national security leaks
Once they get a special prosecutor anything goes. Just like when Ken Star was appointed to look into Whitewater, it ended with Lewinsky. They'll do it again once they set the dogs loose.

I thought the GW Bush administration did away with the Special Prosecutor's office on the heels of Valerie Plame's CIA outing.

10 iossarian  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:39:48am

re: #9 RadicalModerate

I thought the GW Bush administration did away with the Special Prosecutor's office on the heels of Valerie Plame's CIA outing.

Nobody expects the Special Prosecutor!

11 iossarian  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:40:51am

JOBS

12 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:41:34am

It's important that Issa and his party not be given a majority in the Senate, the White House, or more members in the House.

13 Kragar  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:42:28am

re: #12 HappyWarrior

It's important that Issa and his party not be given a majority in the Senate, the White House, or more members in the House.

Don't vote for a Republican at any level of government.

14 Feline Fearless Leader  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:43:51am

Frank says:
When did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children?

15 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:44:48am

re: #13 Kragar

Don't vote for a Republican at any level of government.

I won't though we already had our local election which is how McDonnell's party got the idea to propose the transvaginal ultrasound.

16 Areopagitica  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:47:53am

Can someone please explain how this jackass got elected? Are voters getting dumber? Issa is seriously one of the most intellectually dishonest politicians I've seen in a while. :(

17 William of Orange  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:49:01am

Darrell Issa, meet me on camera 3.

Sir, I know you're a decent, totally on the level, coherent and all around nice guy....

.....but I can't find any evidence to confirm that.

18 simoom  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:51:01am

Also of note is that after previously losing interest in the ATF Phoenix office and turning his focus almost entirely to the DOJ and AG Holder, with this letter (and zero evidence), Issa suggests he's expanding into the WH with his inquisition:

“To what extent were you or your most senior advisers involved in Operation Fast and Furious and the fallout from it, including the false Feb. 4, 2011, letter provided by the attorney general to the committee?” he continued.

Please also identify any communications, meetings and teleconferences between the White House and the Justice Department between Feb. 4, 2011, and June 18, 2012, the day before the attorney general requested that you assert executive privilege.

By directly going after internal WH deliberations I have to wonder if he's now deliberately fishing for a second invocation of executive privilege.

19 wrenchwench  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:51:06am

re: #16 Areopagitica

Can someone please explain how this jackass got elected? Are voters getting dumber? Issa is seriously one of the most intellectually dishonest politicians I've seen in a while. :(

He's very, very rich. That might have something to do with it.

20 Vicious Michigan Union Thug  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:53:19am

...

21 wrenchwench  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:53:20am

re: #18 simoom

Also of note is that after previously losing interest in the ATF Phoenix office and turning his focus almost entirely to the DOJ and AG Holder, with this letter (and zero evidence), Issa suggests he's expanding into the WH with his inquisition:

[Link: thehill.com...]

By directly going after internal WH deliberations I have to wonder if he's now deliberately fishing for a second invocation of executive privilege.

He knows there was nothing to cover up, but he's going to find a cover up anyway.

BTW, as I understand it, all the stupidity of F & F emanated from the Phoenix ATF office.

22 William of Orange  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:53:40am

Poor guy. His father told him too many stories about the boogyman under his bed. And still, Darrell, he's there....

...but I can't find any evidence to confirm that.


(I feel a twitter meme starting! Hahaha!!!)

Who's next?

23 Targetpractice  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:53:41am

re: #18 simoom

Also of note is that after previously losing interest in the ATF Phoenix office and turning his focus almost entirely to the DOJ and AG Holder, with this letter (and zero evidence), Issa suggests he's expanding into the WH with his inquisition:

By directly going after internal WH deliberations I have to wonder if he's now deliberately fishing for a second invocation of executive privilege.

It's how you keep any good fishing expedition going: Keep adding onto the pile of things you demand be turned over, with refusal to do so "proof" of obstruction or cover-up.

24 Vicious Michigan Union Thug  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:54:18am

I posted a comment here that was supposed to go on one of the pages. I feel so stupid. :(

25 Charles Johnson  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:54:48am

Huge crackdown on hackers now going on:

26 wrenchwench  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:55:31am

re: #24 Learned Mother of Zion

I posted a comment here that was supposed to go on one of the pages. I feel so stupid. :(

My upding is not to be considered confirmation of your feeling.

27 William of Orange  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:55:54am

re: #25 Charles Johnson

Huge crackdown on hackers now going on:

[Embedded content]

Guess who told him. It's Darrell.

...but I can't find any evidence to confirm that.

28 RadicalModerate  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:56:34am

re: #17 William of Orange

Darrell Issa, meet me on camera 3.

Sir, I know you're a decent, totally on the level, coherent and all around nice guy...

...but I can't find any evidence to confirm that.

Having a personal history of arson, auto theft, and threatening behavior while brandishing a firearm, (charges that he avoided prosecution on because he also happens to be currently the 2nd-wealthiest member of Congress), I'd really think that he'd be the last person that Republicans would want to trot out on a law-and-order type of investigation.

29 Killgore Trout  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:56:58am

re: #25 Charles Johnson

Huge crackdown on hackers now going on:

[Embedded content]

Barrett Brown unavailable for comment.
/Just kidding, I'm sure he'll be giving interviews later this afternoon

30 William of Orange  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:58:43am

Little known fact:

Darrell Issa was the unofficial sixth member of the Scooby Doo gang.

31 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 11:00:51am

re: #28 RadicalModerate

Having a personal history of arson, auto theft, and threatening behavior while brandishing a firearm, (charges that he avoided prosecution on because he also happens to be currently the 2nd-wealthiest member of Congress), I'd really think that he'd be the last person that Republicans would want to trot out on a law-and-order type of investigation.

Why not? They never have a problem with moral hypocrites like Newt lecturing the rest of us.

32 William of Orange  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 11:02:11am

Little known fact:

His favorite tv-show was the "Twilight Zone".

33 mr.fusion  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 11:04:42am

Politico, 11/08/10

Issa’s specific plans bring a certain reality to what has been known for months: Oversight of the Obama administration and congressional Democrats will be a central purpose for the new Republican House.

To give an idea of how expansive Issa’s oversight plans are, look at the record of Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) when he chaired the oversight committee during in the 110th Congress during George W. Bush’s presidency. Waxman held 203 oversight hearings in two years; Issa has signaled he’s prepared to hold about 280 in just one year.

34 watching you tiny alien kittens are  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 12:51:04pm

Just another episode of the election year sound bite wars...

"You idiot! You said you had no evidence of White House Involvement! Now Obama's people will make ads trying to clear him with your own words!"

"Oops, sorry. Now What?"

"We need you to say that the White House is still under investigation, we don't need any proof, just the accusation is enough, ok?"

"Sure, I can do that."

"You'd better if you want any help from the party when your up for re-election..."

35 watching you tiny alien kittens are  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 12:56:27pm

Brought to you by the people who fabricate out of whole cloth outrage stories about their political opponents supposed misdeeds almost every day of every week so that they can more easily justify their own moral and ethical lapses by claiming that the "other side" did it first!

Effing hypocrites...

36 Sophia77  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 1:31:51pm

Of course, the GOP refuses to deal with the larger issue of guns, gun violence and gun control.

People should look at the murder statistics so far this year, the majority of which involve guns.

Then we should ask ourselves why we are panicking about the Middle East?

37 Mattand  Tue, Jun 26, 2012 2:01:01pm

re: #13 Kragar

Don't vote for a Republican at any level of government.

I've actually said this right to the faces of a few people running as a Republicans in my town including the GOP mayoral nominee.

I told them that while the local GOP generally doesn't reflect the overal craziness seen at the state and fed level, I have huge problems supporting a party that has gone bat shit insane (actual phrase used.)

One party rule is never a good thing, but given the GOP's transformation into the Christian Brotherhood, they're giving me little choice.


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