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Some time ago Darrell Issa called President Obama the most corrupt Presidents in history.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpq3Z4OZZHM]Issa: Dropout Limbaugh made me say Obama 'one of the most corrupt Presidents in modern times' - YouTube[/ame]
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:
Astonishing.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpq3Z4OZZHM]Issa: Dropout Limbaugh made me say Obama 'one of the most corrupt Presidents in modern times' - YouTube[/ame]
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.