Darrell Issa’s pathetic, error-laden obsession continues

[DonViejo]

At his latest Benghazi hearing, the GOP oversight czar quickly had to retract a central “coverup” claim. Oops

BY JOAN WALSH

All you really need to know about Darrell Issa’s renewed crusade to get the “truth” about last year’s Benghazi attacks is that his report on the alleged Accountability Review Board “whitewash” mentions former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton 33 times.

Oh, and it also got a key fact or two wrong. At least.

On Thursday the ARB chairs, Admiral Mike Mullen and former Ambassador Thomas Pickering, testified at a House Oversight Committee hearing arranged to promote Issa’s newest “scandal”: his claim that the ARB protected Clinton from responsibility in the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans at the Benghazi compound last year. (Issa does not appear to realize that Clinton immediately and repeatedly took full and public responsibility for the deaths.)

Sadly for Issa, he immediately had to retract one of his report’s most inflammatory charges: that Mullen had “undermined” the review board’s credibility by giving State Department Chief of Staff (and longtime Clinton aide) Cheryl Mills an inappropriate “heads up” before her testimony to the ARB. In fact, Mullen testified to the Oversight committee that he had notified Mills about the planned testimony of another State Department official, Charlene Lamb (who was ultimately among four employees singled out for criticism in the ARB report.)

Issa called the distortion of Mullen’s actual testimony an unintentional “typo” – even though he’s been hyping it as central to his “whitewash” charges.

full column:
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/19/darrell_issas_pathetic_error_laden_obsession_continues/

[Blue Owl]

1. He Issa Disgrace

n/t

[gopiscrap]

2. Issa is a waste, all he does is suck oxegyn

and bloviates!

[Blue Idaho]

3. What a piece of shit.

Maybe he should go back to torching his own businesses to claim the insurance money. At least he was reasonably competent at that.