Darrell Issa’s Doc Dump on Benghazi May Put Lybians Work With the US at Risk
Rep. Darrell Issa (Douchebag - CA) has released a whole bunch of documents related to the attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi in an effort to back up claims of malfeasance, or even more nefarious objectives (like why the President put the word “acts” in front of the word “terrorist” and not behind it), and in the process, may have put some Lybians who are helping us get to the bottom of that attack at risk.
Once again, the Republican Party puts political interests over national interests, and raises douchebaggery to a new disgusting level.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) compromised the identities of several Libyans working with the U.S. government and placed their lives in danger when he released reams of State Department communications Friday, according to Obama administration officials.
Issa posted 166 (pdf) pages of sensitive but unclassified State Department communications related to Libya on the committee’s website afternoon as part of his effort to investigate security failures and expose contradictions in the administration’s statements regarding the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi that resulted in the death of Amb. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.“The American people deserve nothing less than a full explanation from this administration about these events, including why the repeated warnings about a worsening security situation appear to have been ignored by this administration. Americans also deserve a complete explanation about your administration’s decision to accelerate a normalized presence in Libya at what now appears to be at the cost of endangering American lives,” Issa and Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) wrote today in a letter to President Barack Obama.
But Issa didn’t bother to redact the names of Libyan civilians and local leaders mentioned in the cables, and just as with the WikiLeaks dump of State Department cables last year, the administration says that Issa has done damage to U.S. efforts to work with those Libyans and exposed them to physical danger from the very groups that had an interest in attacking the U.S. consulate.