not care. he just release what is he wants to release. later in 2012, he held hearings on the attack in benghazi. the state department had released to him information about specific libyan nationals who had worked with the u.s. government in their country. at his hearings on benghazi, darrell issa revealed their identities, the libyans who were working with us. oh, what could possibly go wrong. congressman issa did not bother to redact the names of libyan civilians and local leaders mentioned in the cables. why would he? congressman darrell issa is a human sive. he s a piece of tupperware where the lids shrank in the dishwasher and will never close again. at least dan burton said he wanted to be able to freely released whatever documents he felt like as a form of political intimidation. darrell issa doesn t seem to be able to stop himself from doing it.
were able to sort of shut dan burton down a little bit. they were at least able to get a ruling from the congressional parliamentarian, that it s the whole committee not just one guy who has to decide how documents get handled and what documents could get released to the press. nothing that could stop dan burton from being the amazing congressman that he was for all those years that he was there. but the democrats way back in 1987, they were able to stop that one thing about him and him deciding what documents he was going to release, no matter how secret they were. now the republicans are bringing all that back. republican congressman whose now in charge of the oversight committee is darrell itssa of california. when darrell issa s committee held hearings on tsa security at airports the tsa submitted security breaches at u.s. airports. as soon as those confidential
that s a quote. if you really want to know what s going on with texas health care, i m afraid you re going to have to watch more fox news, guy that s in charge of texas health care. darrell issa is not the most amazing member of congress ever, but give him time. right now the obama administration is in a really big fight with darrell issa over what powers he has claimed for himself and the fact that he leaks like a sive when we gets any sensitive information. darrell issa is now calling himself the lead overseer of the nation. as such he is now traveling the country holding essentially sham congressional hearings at which he shows clips of the bill o reilly show and berates health care administrators about how they need to be watching more fox news if they really want to understand what s going on.
will be banned by law from explaining to people the differences between types of health insurance plans that are being offered. they will be barred by texas law from recommending to ning that they do sign up for health insurance. texas is doing everything it can to keep texans from having health insurance, by any means necessary. and darrell issa loves the texas strategy and to celebrate it, he brought his traveling anti-obama care road show to texas last night, specifically to go after the health care navigators issue the way that texas has. and although chairman issa did make a little progress, he did allow one democrat to speak last night. otherwise he just called on republican congressmen so they can talk about how much they hate obama care. that s what they call a hearing. there was this one amazing moment when one of the texas republicans decided to call essentially a new witness, at least to bring forth the new evidence, when he sprung a surprise on the people assembled
you can look at them. you can review them with your own staff and with your own experts, but you cannot have copies of this stuff, because any time you get copies of anything, you e-mail them to cnn. it s a fight that remains unresolved. yesterday the administration went so far as to go around darrell issa and write to john boehner as speaker of the house. it s a really interesting fight in congress. it is a legit fight and it is one for which there is lots of precedent earned in part by the man who called more than 34 witnesses and demanded attorney 34,000 documents to investigate this christmas card back in the 90s. our new version of dan burton, darrell issa is taking hiss show on the road. doing what he calls congressional field hearings. but which are essentially traveling darrell issa road shows. where he s arranged all the testimony in advance, he asks specifically for what he would