I call on Mitt Romney to demand the immediate resignation of Rep. Darrell Issa from his chairmanship of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. And I call on Rep. Darrell Issa to immediately resign from Congress in disgrace. To stand for reelection after endangering the lives of Libyans working in cooperation with the United States or seeking our assistance would be an insult to our country. If he doesn’t resign, he should be treated exactly as Julian Assange has been treated. Doing indiscriminate document dumps of sensitive government records is a crime, and when a chairman of a government committee does such a thing in a nakedly partisan attempt to influence an election, they should no longer serve in Congress.
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No, no, cost-benefit analysis dictates that Issa must stay.
Sure, he’s burning foreign-intelligence assets. But the safety of the nation is on balanced better served by getting That Awful Negro out of the White House than it is harmed by Issa purposefully leaking like a colander.
Extremism in the defense of extremism is no vice.
All the “lack of transparency” in what the administration said about it is connected with these issues. Romeny et al. are such amateurs. dangerous amateurs at that.
This is reminiscent of Valerie Plame.
The actual execution of foreign policy, the well-being of our people in other countries – none of that matters a whit if there is a political point to be scored.
I couldn’t agree with you more, but as a San Diegan I can tell you that Issa, far from resigning, will likely take a victory lap.
I wish I could see a way this becomes the scandal it ought to, but likely not. The major local paper, the Union-Tribune, is owned by the local wannabe oligarch, Doug Manchester, whose models of civic responsibility are the Koch bros.
I certainly would love to be wrong.
Likely the Democratic opposition to Issa is ignoring this breach of national security for the sake of the tone of the campaign. Right?
My guess is they’re trying to avoid making things worse for those on the ground and be professional re: intelligence issues
This.
If Issa’s document dump really did cause any problems, the worst thing the administration can do is confirm the importance of the documents by making a big stink.
yes, exactly
There’s a Democratic opposition?
A bit of gallows humor. There are certainly Democrats in San Diego, but the thing you have to understand about our local politics is that it is thoroughly racist, just like our fair city. Our politics is basically 3-2 in favor of the GOP. Our Democratic Party is led by older white people who are good at fielding candidates (and carrying signs) but not so good at forming electoral coalitions with the diverse peoples who, were they to vote proportionally to their numbers, might give us a better politics.
Our current mayoral race is between a good Democrat, Bob Filner, and the worst Republican of the lot, Carl DeMaio. Filner has real credentials. Freedom Rider, etc. He is not a racist prick. However, he’s a product of the politics as is, and has not built the new coalition that we need.
None of this would rid us of this Issa, however. He represents the northeast part of SD. This is Tom Metzger territory. There is a lot of organization to do to get Democratic voters throwing his ass out on the pavement. I think the quicker cure might be to have him arrested.
What needs to happen in San Diego is that white Democrats need to let go of their monopoly on positions of privilege in the local organization. We do have Democrats of color winning elections, but in ghettoized elections, people representing “their group” and their group only. That’s not to say that the individuals see it that way, but that’s systemically how it works.
My reply is re: national discussion, not the locar race (don’t know anything about it). thanks for your informative comment
And Bradley Manning must be immediately freed.
Wikileaks gave the Department of State the opportunity to redact the names of sensitive personnel (which State contemptuously ignored) and worked with news outlets to release the information without endangering lives. And they had the point of providing needed information to the American public about what was being done in their name–which the US public never registered.
Issa’s political malice has endangered lives and he did not take due diligence with the information entrusted to him.
Now, can we get rid of the “state secrets” nonsense that fools no one but the American people. And is used so hypocritically by politicians.
But as usual IOKIYAR as far as the Wall Street Media is concerned.
Why do you think Bradley Manning should be immediately freed? I guess I’m confused as to what you think the American people should have registered that would give Manning a pass for violating laws.
By order I am not allowed to look at the Wikileaks materials but I’ve seen bits and pieces here and there from newspaper headlines. Nothing seemed particularly outrageous in the context of what I knew of the Bush years.
If I’m reading him correctly, his comment is not so much a defense of Manning, as an indictment of Issa.
Issa and his gang of idiots also did a televised hearing recently of their Libya grandstanding where they compromised an active CIA site in Benghazi as well. When they figured it out, they shut down the hearing – too late. Dana Milbank wrote about it.
This has been another episode of IOKIYAR. Thanks for watching, see you next time.
I hope that Obama specifically calls on Romney to condemne Issa’s actions during the debate.
as most likely Romney will not be pressed on it otherwise.
No, definitely not – see comments above.
Issa is a traitor, and a Fascist.
He’s the one to blame for bankrupting the USPS so that the government would have to sell it off for scrap, AND break the USPS Postal Union.
Issa deserves a lot more ire from We The People than just resigning and going back home. I’m thinking France, ca. 1793.
A whole lot of traitors and Fascists deserve a lot more than losing an election. And the more they push, the closer they get. I’ll volunteer for a black hood position when the time comes. Oh, the smile I’ll be wearing under that hood…
Memory cells reminding me of a Rep Congressman blabbing that we were tracking UBL via his SAT phone useage, UBL tosses his SAT phone;
AQ strikes on 9/11 and Bush comes out of the bunker long enough to listen to Cheney quack about tying Iraq to the strike.
Valerie Plame and her CIA team get in Cheney’s way and he blows not just her cover, but the team’s cover and any allies working with them.
The Rep wonder why the Intelligence Community doesn’t get things perfect in every instance, well if they weren’t fighting to survive stupid white Congressmen’s big mouths maybe they’d have a better chance.
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Gee whiz, what about that Republican brain wave after decades of failed US foreign policy, And about half of the American people want to put US security in the hands of a new Neocon clan with Mitt Romney as puppet? [Bush clone with some dna damage] NO WAY!
My congressman,
I’m so proud.
One thing’s for sure: Eric Holder will not investigate whether Issa broke any laws.
The Honorable Congressman from California must know he his putting the cart before the horse by exposing classified assets of the Libyan operation while claiming there was not enough “security”.
He is simply throwing lit cigarettes toward a powder keg, hoping it will blow up. It’s the only “honorable” thing to do…