Darrell Issa and his "investigation" shennigans.

Some time ago Darrell Issa called President Obama the most corrupt Presidents in history.

Issa: Dropout Limbaugh made me say Obama 'one of the most corrupt Presidents in modern times' - YouTube

First off, he's had plenty of time to investigate the Bush administration which flat out lost 9 billion dollars in Iraq. That's just the beginning. They contracted Halliburton, a company in which Dick Cheney was still recieving compensation from, and have been fined on multiple occassions for outright fraud and abuse. While working with the Bush administration there have been reports of, guess what, fraud and abuse. And it's not just what they were charging..it was shoddy work that caused the deaths of troops. And that's not even the half of it. Cheney held secret meetings with the heads of oil companies to determine energy policy for this country. Erik Prince of Blackwater was actually implicated in murder and tax evasion. It also looks as if Blackwater was a conduit for arming the terrorist group, the PKK. Issa, himself, is no stranger to criminal activity:

Issa dropped out of high school and enlisted for a three-year tour in the Army on his 17th birthday.[3][4] He served as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technician, defusing bombs, after having been shown a movie about soldiers in that specialty during World War II. He would later claim his unit had provided security for President Richard Nixon, sweeping stadiums for bombs prior to games in the 1971 World Series, and that he had always received the highest approval ratings during his service.[5] A 1998 investigation by the San Francisco Examiner found that these claims were not true: Nixon did not attend any of that year's World Series games, and at one point Issa was transferred to a supply depot after receiving an unsatisfactory evaluation. According to Issa, the Examiner reporter had misunderstood an anecdote he had related.[3]
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Twice during that year he was arrested. In March, Issa and his brother William were charged with stealing a Maserati from a dealer's showroom in Cleveland. Issa says it was a matter of mistaken identity by the Cleveland Heights police; the case was later dismissed.[3]

Before that had happened, in December 1972, police in Adrian pulled Issa over for going the wrong way on a one-way street and, as he was retrieving his registration, saw in the car's glove compartment what turned out to be a .25-caliber Colt semi-automatic handgun inside an ammunition box, along with a military pouch containing 44 rounds, a tear gas gun and two rounds for that. Issa was charged with carrying a concealed weapon; ultimately he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of possession of an unregistered firearm.
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A week before he was discharged, he and his brother were arrested again on theft charges. Near the end of 1979, William Issa, who by then had served federal and state prison time for theft, had sold his brother's 1976 Mercedes-Benz sedan to a San Jose dealership for $16,000, giving the dealer an Ohio license with Issa's name on it. Issa had soon reported the car stolen and told the police he had left the title certificate in the trunk.[3] Issa made conflicting statements to police about whether or not he had obtained a second license and also about his brother, whom he had recently seen at Christmas in Cleveland Heights. With the investigator suspicious that the brothers might have conspired to commit insurance fraud, they were indicted. Issa said he had no knowledge of his brother's intentions; William said Issa had given him power of attorney a few weeks beforehand and had authorized him to sell the car. Issa bought the Mercedes back from the dealership for $17,000 in February; in August, the case was dropped.[3]

In 2011, Issa acknowledged that he had tried to cover his brother's crime, avoiding incriminating him.[3] Both men say that William Issa planned and executed the scheme; William says Issa had "always kept the title stuff in his car".[3] According to Issa, he remained close to his brother in spite of his brother's activities and had ridden, as a boy, with William in cars he knew must have been stolen, saying in 2011 that "I admired my brother even when he was doing wrong.... I was always the kid at his ankles."[3]
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The Ohio state fire marshal never determined a cause for the blaze. The initial theory was that it was electrical, but the insurance company came to doubt the theory when a fire analysis report it commissioned outlined evidence that the fire could be arson. It had exhibited two distinct areas of origin, both with "suspicious burn patterns" but without any "accidental source of heating power."[3] Investigators believed that a stack of cardboard boxes, which had burned in a manner inconsistent with an accidental fire, may have had a flammable liquid spread on them. The black smoke and blue flames generated by the fire strongly suggested the use of a hydrocarbon-based accelerant, and the report said the same mix of four distinct hydrocarbons had been found in samples of burned material taken from different locations in the ruins.[3]
Darrell Issa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Astonishing. :eek:
He's the perfect ambassador for the repubs :D ;)
 
With Issa's record, he couldn't get a job in the financial industry or any other industry that deals with vasts amounts of liquidity or sensitive material.

How the heck is he chairing an investigation? Seriously?

Obama couldnt even be hired as an FBI agent.... his past would never allow it.
He would never pass the security checks..... but he is our POTUS!

Just sayin :eusa_whistle:
 
With Issa's record, he couldn't get a job in the financial industry or any other industry that deals with vasts amounts of liquidity or sensitive material.

How the heck is he chairing an investigation? Seriously?

Obama couldnt even be hired as an FBI agent.... his past would never allow it.
He would never pass the security checks..... but he is our POTUS!

Just sayin :eusa_whistle:

What exactly leads you to believe that?

He passed the bar.

He was a lawyer.

Issa couldn't get a job at a law firm. He sure as heck couldn't get a job in the financial industry. And he wouldn't be able to work in law enforcement.
 
Wake up Sallow. The American People aren't your enemy, The Federal Reserve is.

Are you so blind that you can't see beyond the "left-right" paradigm?
 
Obama and Holder have American blood on their hands and the Obama Fluffers think it's funny

You don't seem to care much that Bush and Cheney have MUCH more American blood on their hands.

As well as the blood of innocent Iraqis.

And neither does Issa.

More troops were killed by Halliburton and their incompetence..then were killed by anything the Obama administration has done.


More troops were killed by Halliburton and their incompetence..then were killed by anything the Obama administration has done

links please.
 
Some time ago Darrell Issa called President Obama the most corrupt Presidents in history.

Issa: Dropout Limbaugh made me say Obama 'one of the most corrupt Presidents in modern times' - YouTube

First off, he's had plenty of time to investigate the Bush administration which flat out lost 9 billion dollars in Iraq.
Darrell Issa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Now the conservatives are braying about 1/2 a billion that was used to help jump-start alternative enery. Not a peep from them about billions in oil subsidies either eh? :eusa_eh: :clap2:
 
Some time ago Darrell Issa called President Obama the most corrupt Presidents in history.

Issa: Dropout Limbaugh made me say Obama 'one of the most corrupt Presidents in modern times' - YouTube

First off, he's had plenty of time to investigate the Bush administration which flat out lost 9 billion dollars in Iraq.
Darrell Issa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Now the conservatives are braying about 1/2 a billion that was used to help jump-start alternative enery. Not a peep from them about billions in oil subsidies either eh? :eusa_eh: :clap2:

fossil fuels are effective.
 
Obama and Holder have American blood on their hands and the Obama Fluffers think it's funny
Yep.
"Fuck the Law! Fuck the Constitution! Fuck the Economy! Just protect our Dear Reader the Messiah!" :uhoh3:

And listen to and watch only those radio stations and TV channels that don't report something they don't want to know...why....it isn't fair......:eusa_whistle: ( out of sight, out of mind )
 
Now the conservatives are braying about 1/2 a billion that was used to help jump-start alternative enery. Not a peep from them about billions in oil subsidies either eh? :eusa_eh: :clap2:

:doubt:They are not "subsidies" idiot they are called right offs for the costs of doing buisness like any other buisness has. Get off your talkng points.


Why Oil & Gas Tax Treatments Are Not Unique or &#8220;Subsidies&#8221;
Contrary to what some in politics and the media have said, the oil and natural gas industry currently enjoys no unique tax credits or deductions. Since its inception, the US tax code has allowed corporate tax payers the ability to recover costs and to be taxed only on net income. These cost recovery mechanisms, also known in policy circles as &#8220;tax expenditures&#8221;, should in no way be confused with &#8220;subsidies&#8221;, i.e., direct government spending.


http://www.api.org/policy/tax/upload/Oil-Gas-Tax-Treatments-Not-Subsidies_April2011.pdf
 
Now the conservatives are braying about 1/2 a billion that was used to help jump-start alternative enery. Not a peep from them about billions in oil subsidies either eh? :eusa_eh: :clap2:

:doubt:They are not "subsidies" idiot they are called right offs for the costs of doing buisness like any other buisness has. Get off your talkng points.


Why Oil & Gas Tax Treatments Are Not Unique or &#8220;Subsidies&#8221;
Contrary to what some in politics and the media have said, the oil and natural gas industry currently enjoys no unique tax credits or deductions. Since its inception, the US tax code has allowed corporate tax payers the ability to recover costs and to be taxed only on net income. These cost recovery mechanisms, also known in policy circles as &#8220;tax expenditures&#8221;, should in no way be confused with &#8220;subsidies&#8221;, i.e., direct government spending.

http://www.api.org/policy/tax/upload/Oil-Gas-Tax-Treatments-Not-Subsidies_April2011.pdf

The morph of Capitalism into multitudes of 'socially permissible' hands entering your pockets.....
 
Now the conservatives are braying about 1/2 a billion that was used to help jump-start alternative enery. Not a peep from them about billions in oil subsidies either eh? :eusa_eh: :clap2:

:doubt:They are not "subsidies" idiot they are called right offs for the costs of doing buisness like any other buisness has. Get off your talkng points.


Why Oil & Gas Tax Treatments Are Not Unique or &#8220;Subsidies&#8221;
Contrary to what some in politics and the media have said, the oil and natural gas industry currently enjoys no unique tax credits or deductions. Since its inception, the US tax code has allowed corporate tax payers the ability to recover costs and to be taxed only on net income. These cost recovery mechanisms, also known in policy circles as &#8220;tax expenditures&#8221;, should in no way be confused with &#8220;subsidies&#8221;, i.e., direct government spending.

http://www.api.org/policy/tax/upload/Oil-Gas-Tax-Treatments-Not-Subsidies_April2011.pdf

The morph of Capitalism into multitudes of 'socially permissible' hands entering your pockets.....

The thing is these people want to demonize certain buisness and use that to futher their political ideology, all buisness gets write offs, I have a small buisness, i write off my costs supplies, insurance, labor cost ect..However I do think we need to simplify the tax code.
 
Obama and Holder have American blood on their hands and the Obama Fluffers think it's funny

Who gave cluster bombs and military assistance to Israel that blew innocent Lebanese men, women and chilren to bits. Invaded Iraq and killed a million innocent Iraqis? Kept blacks in slavery for 200 years. Imprisoned Japanese Amerians in interment camps and took their belongings.
Holder should receive a medal because those guns were used by drugs cartels to kill other drug cartels and when and where there is war their is always callateral damage and casualties of war.
Bush must be bathing in blood.
 
Darrell Issa is gonna' get the Ken Starr treatment from partisan hacks like Swallow who know their "Dear Reader" is in huge trouble.

I'm sure that'll discourage him. :rolleyes:

No "swallow" for you little quifter.

And if anyone is hoping that this guy is going to be some kind of "white knight", they got another thing coming.

Issa is a partisan hack. He's got many, much more damaging and expensive "crimes" to pursue from the previous administration.

He hasn't done that. In fact he's brushed it under the carpet, queer boy.

And one only has to look into his VERY REAL CRIMINAL past to see he's not an honest broker.

And when Dims were in control of the House they failed to pursue said "crimes" because? I mean crimes are crimes and they certainly had no love for the previous administration, so something smells a little fishy now.
 
Now the conservatives are braying about 1/2 a billion that was used to help jump-start alternative enery. Not a peep from them about billions in oil subsidies either eh? :eusa_eh: :clap2:

:doubt:They are not "subsidies" idiot they are called right offs for the costs of doing buisness like any other buisness has. Get off your talkng points.


Why Oil & Gas Tax Treatments Are Not Unique or “Subsidies”
Contrary to what some in politics and the media have said, the oil and natural gas industry currently enjoys no unique tax credits or deductions. Since its inception, the US tax code has allowed corporate tax payers the ability to recover costs and to be taxed only on net income. These cost recovery mechanisms, also known in policy circles as “tax expenditures”, should in no way be confused with “subsidies”, i.e., direct government spending.


http://www.api.org/policy/tax/upload/Oil-Gas-Tax-Treatments-Not-Subsidies_April2011.pdf

Hilarious. :clap2:

American oil is probably the most heavily subsidized industry in the world. Exxon has been the most profitable corporation in the history of capitalism. It's made more money then every other industry in history, combined.

Not only are they given all sorts of goodies to explore for oil, but the US provides security for oil companies overseas in the form of the US military at a huge cost to American Tax Payers. Additionally the CIA conducts all sorts of spook ops to keep the type of politicians the oil companies want in oil producing nations. And if that weren't enough..we invade other countries that oil companies want invaded, like Iraq.

All that "cheap" gas we've had for years comes at a big price.

The blood and treasure of our nation.

Which is why this barking dog carnival act that Issa is putting is so great.

It draw attention away from some very real corruption. Which is why that a criminal like Issa is hosting this. He knows the game.
 
Darrell Issa is gonna' get the Ken Starr treatment from partisan hacks like Swallow who know their "Dear Reader" is in huge trouble.

I'm sure that'll discourage him. :rolleyes:

No "swallow" for you little quifter.

And if anyone is hoping that this guy is going to be some kind of "white knight", they got another thing coming.

Issa is a partisan hack. He's got many, much more damaging and expensive "crimes" to pursue from the previous administration.

He hasn't done that. In fact he's brushed it under the carpet, queer boy.

And one only has to look into his VERY REAL CRIMINAL past to see he's not an honest broker.

And when Dims were in control of the House they failed to pursue said "crimes" because? I mean crimes are crimes and they certainly had no love for the previous administration, so something smells a little fishy now.

I'm not sure if it was a "Well, where do you start", thing or a "Well, the country is in big trouble now, so it's best we put this off", thing, but in my opinion it would have been a good idea to get some investigations underway. The Republicans used the lack of answering for anything to do a quick make over..and they won big.

It's astonishing how flat footed the Democrats have been about this.
 

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