Benghazi Review Board To Issa: Talk To Us In Public, Not In Private

[Tx4obama]

Benghazi Review Board To Issa: Talk To Us In Public, Not In Private

Ambassador Thomas Pickering and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Michael Mullen are refusing a request from Rep. Darrel Issa to meet in private, preferring a public airing.

Thomas Pickering and Michael Mullen called the proposed closed-door proceeding an “inappropriate precondition” to their testifying before the committee in a letter sent Thursday to Issa, the chairman of the House Oversight panel. The letter was made public by the State Department.

“In the past week members of your Committee have publicly criticized – in both an open hearing and in the media – the work of the Accountability Review Board [ARB],” the retired diplomat and the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff wrote. “Having taken liberal license to call into question the Board’s work, it is surprising that you now maintain that members of the Committee need a closed-door proceeding before being able to ask ‘informed questions’ at a public hearing.”

http://www.alan.com/2013/05/16/benghazi-review-board-to-issa-talk-to-us-in-public-not-in-private/

MORE details here: http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/terrorism/300127-benghazi-auditors-refuse-meeting-with-issa-

[clarice]

1. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. nt

[sharp_stick]

2. Good For Them

That Issa is a slimy piece of shit and it's pretty obvious that the only reason he want's to meet in private is to massage the questions and answers into a new ball of bullshit.

[Sunlei]

3. public hearings, no more republican closed doors!!

[Anansi1171]

4. Kick and Rec

[Cirque du So-What]

5. Oh SNAP

This isn't gonna sit well with the Maserati thief.

[zappaman]

6. God, I can't stand that man.

Such a piece of shit.

[rtracey]

7. HE CAN'T

The reason he wants to talk in private is because he knows what they are going to say, and it will look bad for him,if they prove Obama was not part of a cover-up or conspiracy. My thinking is they would say in private, then Issa would come out and say that their testimony is not relevant, and not put them in the public

[on point]

8. Squelch all those puke manufactured rumors!

[MNBrewer]

9. Good!

Issa is about as slimy an eel-like creature that ever existed. (No offense to eels.)

[joc46224]

10. This is hurting the GOP more than the White House

I work in an office where I am the sole Democrat. All my co-workers are either Republican's or right leaning Independents. When the whole Benghazi thing came out before the election it was all my co-workers wanted to talk about. Now the only thing they say about Benghazi is how sick to death they are of the whole thing. The polls show that America is tired of this issue and the more the GOP goes on and on about it (while ignoring real issues) the lower their approval ratings are. Plus that fact that they are trying to whip up scandal after scandal is actually diluting the impact of each. People are in scandal overload so are tuning out (except for the most rabid Obama haters whose rantings further weaken the credibility of the accusers.) I'm glad the GOP is trotting out all of this stuff now because by 2014 mid-terms no one will care. Sort of like how Hillary wore out the whole Reverend Wright/Bill Ayers issue in the primary so that it had very little, if any, impact during the general election.

[Tx4obama]

11. I can see why they are sick of it. Every time ...

Every time I've clicked around on the TV (the past several months) and stopped to see what they're talking about on FoxNews 95% of the time it's been Benghazi.

If I was a GOPer that watched FoxNews I'd have stopped watching all that Benghazi BS along time ago.

[Cha]

15. Interesting post, joc, thanks!

People are in scandal overload so are tuning out (except for the most rabid Obama haters whose rantings further weaken the credibility of the accusers.)

[tanyev]

12. What are you trying to hide, Darrel?

[Dawson Leery]

13. Issa is keeping the truth under cover.

He needs to keep this smear campaign against Obama/Hillary going.

[DCBob]

14. This is so hilarious.. Issa has been screaming about making everything public.

now when it looks like the real truth is finally coming out he wants it private. Such a despicable partisan hypocrit.

[summerschild]

16. These two guys won't put up with Issa's bullshit. It SHOULD be public.

It will be interesting to see if he tries his usual incivility, disrespect, and bullying on these two gentlemen.

I would love to see them make a total fool out of him - so spectacularly that every news outlet in the country reports it.

(I can dream, can't I?)

[Blue_Roses]

17. Good. Funny watching Issa

squirm. The man is nuts.

[Scurrilous]

18. K & R

[Beacool]

19. You got to love it.

“In the past week members of your Committee have publicly criticized – in both an open hearing and in the media – the work of the Accountability Review Board ,” the retired diplomat and the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff wrote. “Having taken liberal license to call into question the Board’s work, it is surprising that you now maintain that members of the Committee need a closed-door proceeding before being able to ask ‘informed questions’ at a public hearing.”

Good for you, ambassador!!!