Hoyer Challenges Issa to Show E-Mails (hey Issa, produce the emails show you're not a Joe McCarthy)

[Bill USA]

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/26/hoyer-challenges-issa-to-show-e-mails/

(emphases my own)

...Representative Darrell Issa, Republican of California, appeared on national television on Sunday to say he had e-mails showing that the architects of a federal gun-smuggling investigation intended to use the operation to build a case for reinstating the lapsed ban on assault-weapons sales.

[font color="red"]“We have e-mail from people involved in this that are talking about using what they’re finding here to support the — basically assault weapons ban or greater reporting,” Mr. Issa, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said on ABC’s “This Week.”[/font]

On Tuesday, Representative Steny H. Hoyer, Democrat of Maryland and the House minority whip, challenged Mr. Issa to prove it.

“If he has those documents, he should show them,” Mr. Hoyer said.

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"I have emails"

"I have a list."
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[monmouth]

1. Wow. Steny???? Who knew..n/t

[ChazInAz]

2. Really?

Did you find them in a pumpkin patch, Darrell?

[zbdent]

3. a "friend" just posted on her facebook page that she "likes" the movement of

"making the Senate and House obey the same laws they make the rest of us obey" ...

and my first instinct was to say "I agree. Darrel Issa just committed what anybody else would be executed for as Treason ... let's make him abide by the rules the rest of us have to follow."

[rhett o rick]

5. Ask your friend if she would produce all her email records if you decided it was important. nm

[Jim Lane]

10. False analogy, because it was Issa himself who decided the (alleged) emails were important.

In law, there's a doctrine that the one who makes the allegation has the burden of proving it.

This isn't a lawsuit, so Issa is under no legal compulsion to back up his charge -- but Hoyer is perfectly within his rights to request that Issa do so. If Issa doesn't produce any emails, all of us are entitled to conclude that his original statement was a lie.

[DearAbby]

4. Put up or shut up.

[bahrbearian]

6. I want to know who sent the E-mails? , Ted Nugent, that I would believe.

[yurbud]

11. after reading how he dodged the draft by marinating in his own shit for a month...

I can't believe any right winger is willing to be seen with him or even acknowledge they know who he is.

[Iliyah]

7. He can't produce what he doesn't have

better yet, I want to read the e-mails during Bush era.

[BlueMTexpat]

8. Steny must be getting vertebrate transplants!

I'm pretty much loving what he's been saying in recent days. That hasn't always been the case.

[myrna minx]

9. So Dems *do* fight back, on occasion! Good for Hoyer!

I suppose Issa will evoke confidentiality of some sort, but that's ok, he can just have it put in the Congressional record to side step that.