Darrell Issa wants inspectors general to loop in Congress on big investigations

[alp227]

Last edited Tue Aug 7, 2012, 01:18 AM - Edit history (2)

Source: The Washington Post

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) sent a sternly worded letter Monday to the government’s 73 inspectors general asking that they inform Congress of serious violations under investigation.

In the letter, Issa, who is chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, expressed his displeasure that the inspector general of the General Services Administration failed to inform Congress of an investigation into a 2010 employee conference in Las Vegas that cost more than $823,000. While the inspector general had informed GSA’s senior leadership in May 2011, and the White House was informed the same month, Congress did not receive word of the investigation until The Washington Post broke the story on April 2, the day the GSA inspector general, Brian Miller, issued his report.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/issa-inspectors-general-must-alert-congress-on-probes/2012/08/06/6b8078d2-e00f-11e1-a19c-fcfa365396c8_story.html

[maindawg]

1. dear issa

Kiss my ass

[valerief]

2. There are only 73 inspector generals and Issa can't find a way to solicit info from them regularly?

What a useless douche.

[elleng]

3. Tough crap, darrell.

They'll inform Congress if its in the law that sets them up. THEY do their jobs, whether you do yours or not.

[Botany]

4. Haven't you done enough damage Darrel?

GOP REPORT FINDS NO CONNECTION BETWEEN WHITE HOUSE AND ‘FAST AND FURIOUS’ | Despite insistence from GOP leadership that the White House was behind the so-called “Fast and Furious” gunwalking program, a report from House Republicans released Tuesday names five officials at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms as culprits in the misguided effort. All five were reassigned before the release of the report — the first of three. The indictments in the report contradict House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) insistence that the President invoked executive privilege over the Justice Department’s information on ongoing investigations to protect his personal interests. The indication, however, is that the upcoming reports will try to tie the President to the program. It will “address the unprecedented obstruction of the investigation by the highest levels of the Justice Department, including the attorney general himself,” according to the Republicans who wrote the report.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/07/31/614491/fast-furious-report-white-house/

[shoreline]

5. Sorry Darrell...

...the applicable statute, The Inspector General Act of 1978 (as amended) is quite clear. Section 3A reads in part: "Each Inspector General shall report to and be under the general supervision of the head of the establishment involved or, to the extent such authority is delegated, the officer next in rank below such head, but shall not report to, or be subject to supervision by, any other officer of such establishment."

Let's look at the relevant line again, shall we? ...shall not report to, or be subject to supervision by, any other officer...

Issa's intent is clear. His witch hunts aren't generating the kind of dirt he wants, so now he's attempting to interject himself into ongoing IG investigations. The whole idea behind the IGs is that they operate without political or supervisory interference.

Go fuck yourself, Darrell...

[Lasher]

7. Good find.

[Jack Rabbit]

6. He just wants to know when he's under investigation

. . . so he can get a heads up and save his sorry, crooked ass.

[Skittles]

8. why doesn't he research the money spent on senseless war?

he's a repuke whore

[bucolic_frolic]

9. It goes beyond politics

These self-important crusaders who think they're going to turn the world
upside their way. It's personality - narcissistic, histrionic - dominance, and
religious zealotry too. The kind of people you just want to RUN away from.
Heaven help you if you have a family member or boss like this.

[sofa king]

10. "We, um, need a scandal."

The Republicans, who have problems with critical thinking, can't find one on their own. That is compounded by the fact that this President ain't a fucking criminal, unlike the last guy.

They stupidly threw their chips behind the gun-running scandal, too, which is going to blow up in their faces when it is revealed that the perpetrators were in regular contact with Republicans, but not the federal government.

But the House of Representatives' oversight role is weak. President Bush showed everyone how a House investigative committee could be literally sneered at and ignored, without reprisal.

So good luck, Issa. One of our boys will be by soon to feed you another fake scandal that hurts you more than us. Because when the fox actually tries to guard the henhouse, the fur-hunters have a target.

[dtom67]

11. Issa worthless Rich Fuck...

If the shtf, this guys house should be the first one looted.