Darrell Issa threw a tantrum after he was
escorted out of the room for trying to crash a closed-door deposition
before the House Select Committee on Benghazi.
The Hill reported:
Former House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) tried to crash former Hillary Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal’s deposition before the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Tuesday.
Former House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) tried to crash former Hillary Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal’s deposition before the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Tuesday.
Issa marched into the closed-door
deposition and remained inside for about a minute before he was escorted
out by the panel’s chairman, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.).
The pair briefly exchanged hushed words in a nearby hallway before Issa stormed off, throwing an empty soda can into a nearby trash bin.
The pair briefly exchanged hushed words in a nearby hallway before Issa stormed off, throwing an empty soda can into a nearby trash bin.
Rep. Issa tried to crash the deposition that he was
not invited to because he is still bitter about John Boehner kicking him
off the Benghazi investigation. Issa responded to Boehner’s decision to
no put him on the House Select Committee investigating Benghazi by
trying to sabotage the investigation last year. In May of 2014, Issa
went to the media and discussed a confidential State Department memo
that debunked a big piece of the House Republican Benghazi conspiracy
theory.
At the time, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) explained
why Issa keeps trying to muscle in on the Select Committee, “I think
the Speaker has lost control of Issa. Mr. Issa’s trying to interject
himself into the Select Committee’s business. Keep in mind, Wolf, when
the Select Committee was formed what the Speaker said was everything
comes under the Select Committee. Now, here we have Mr. Issa trying to
bring the Secretary in, and the Secretary is saying, you know, I’m going
to come, but I’m just going to come one time. This is it. By the way,
Wolf, it undermines the Select Committee. It undermines them. This is
the very thing they were worried about.”
Issa is completely out of control. He is crashing
depositions and meetings that he has no right to be in. Things have
gotten so bad that his fellow Republicans are removing the Benghazi
crasher. Darrell Issa is still bitter and angry that Boehner took
Benghazi away from him. Issa used Benghazi to boost his own fame
and fundraising.
Darrell
Issa is throwing a fit because he has had his favorite toy taken away,
and Republicans are letting him crash their Benghazi party.
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