House Committee Requests Testimony from White House Official

Sharyl Attkisson ^ | 6-19-2014 | Sharyl Attkisson

[dragnet2]

No biggy....

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

More kabuki. The North American Kabuki Invitationals. Subpenas without consequence for lying because no perjury charges will ever be brought. Questioning by amateur pretend lawyers with no litigation experience who don't know how to educe the answers they want. Hearings without specifying documents to be produced, so that it's always "I'll have to get back to you on that."

All stupid, dilettante amateur posturing that accepts any old bogus proffered script....like emails can be lost when a local hard drive crashes...when nobody with the slightest notion of IT systems believes that in the first place. And it's not a matter of belief, it's a matter of direct, multi-decade professional experience. But Issa, see, he will follow the idea that Lerner's HD crashed until the end of the earth when he should have impounded it over a year ago, work or not, and subpenaed the IT workers who were employed by the IRS at the time for their testimony. Nothing ever comes from these endless hearings because they are being conducted by Issa, Mister "I don't have a second act in my Kabuki theater. Am I supposed to?"

Lerners' hard drives should have been seized on day 1.

I actually like Issa in a general way but him not being a lawyer, only pretending to be one, he is not capable of understanding how much he is actually damaging the entire case against the IRS....by far, the clearest, most direct-evidence case against the admin and to my mind, the most serious.... by his bungling and grasping at stuff that turns out to be worthless. That's because the people on the other side have real lawyers, smart lawyers, REALLY smart lawyers, and they know exactly the mistakes pretend-lawyer Issa is making and they are knowledgeably staging him to sabotage himself. And they are succeeding beautifully. This is exactly what happens when amateurs pretend to be lawyers! If Issa was smart, or smarter, he would realize that. He isn't and he doesn't, and this investigation is being botched badly.

[jamaksin]

Psst ... C-O-N-T-U-M-A-C-Y.

[USS Alaska]

Issa does NOT have the required “fire-in-the-belly” to ask the required follow up questions to get to the truth.

Issa has no balls, he is just pleased as punch to have Greta rub his leg once a month and call him "Sir".

I had very high hopes for Issa in the beginning of the 2011 term, but he has proven himself to be just another "go along to get along DC insider".

Thank God that Trey Gowdy got boner to let him head up the hildabeastbenhur select committee, because if Issa had been chosen, it would go no where.

[EVO X]

Other email from the time period in question exists, it must have been restored from backup to the replacement disk. Why were these emails not restored for Lerner? Why were these emails not restored for these other particular persons?

They are going to blame their crappy backups and limited server space to a lack of funding...

[Graewoulf]

Agreed, and well said!

BTW, Issa made his millions by inventing a truck back-up device - - - sort of what he does now at taxpayer expense: when the going gets tough, BACK UP!