Could it be possible to get to Ted Cruz with all the info that has been shared here and ask him to please sit Issa down and give him instructions on cross examination?
Gowdy would be my strong preference, but the point is "real lawyer, real litigator".
Sure, it would be "possible", but the person to "get to" would be Issa, IMO. I am sure either one of Cruz or Gowdy would be more than willing to confer and even to write out lines of questioning; but what we are seeing is reluctance on the part of Issa....and I say that because of what I've already stated, and he is furthermore proving it with his actions: If he, Issa, is not savvy enough to see that he is blowing it and is to this point failing to confer/take interrogation lessons from Gowdy/Cruz, after being roundly deflected 2-3-4 times in prior hearings, then he must not be smart enough to to go confer with those guys right now, today. And he is therefore also not smart enough to see the cumulative damage his getting skunked is producing.
He may have been a very successful businessman, but he ain't a lawyer and he's frankly not savvy enough to understand what he is doing. He's much more a blue-collar guy, if you look at his background. And that is no criticism, my point and my alarm is that he is doing serious damage, unwittingly, because he is (only) a pretend lawyer and he THINKS he knows what he is doing. And he doesn't. This is ego. He thinks he can go up against Harvard-grade New York-grade attorneys who are without question advising and running the other sides' playbooks and rehearsing their lines...while Issa ISN'T "rehearsing his". That is not a winning strategy. He isn't a lawyer of >>ANY<< kind, yet he thinks he can do battle with top-drawer REAL lawyers. He's going to get smoked, but what is worse, REAL top-grade attorneys will be able to twist this right back onto Issa by having his own incompetence (as a lawyer) serve to discredit not just him, but the investigation itself.
The most magnificent strategy in litigation is the ability to have the court construe your case (as plaintiff) into a structure that you actually end up suing yourself.
If you [generic you] are not smart enough to see that you are blowing your case, then you ought not to pretend you're a lawyer...and if you *have been* pretending you're a lawyer, you should STOP and seek professional help, as we say.