Issa Sets Sights on WikiLeaks, Government Regulation and Afghanistan for Future Hearings

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Fox News:

The WikiLeaks debacle, corruption in Afghanistan and Obama administration regulation are all on the agenda as Rep. Darrell Issa prepares to take the helm of the top House committee tasked with watch-dogging Washington.

Fox News has obtained a tentative outline of the hearings Issa plans to hold when he takes over the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The California Republican's game plan is being closely watched as Democrats worry about the lengths to which he'll go to pull back the curtain on the alleged missteps of the past two years.

Issa has tried to tamp down concerns about his agenda, but does not deny he'll be in a state of "constant battle" with the White House. He said in an interview Sunday that he views the administration as one of the "most corrupt" in modern times.

According to the tentative agenda provided by Capitol Hill sources, the first hearing on Issa's list will be targeted at the administration. Leading the agenda is a hearing on the "impact of regulation on job creation."

"We need to start by asking a very fundamental question: Why hasn't the economy created the private-sector jobs the president promised?" the memo said.
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Well, Obama promised transparancy, and Issa just wants to make sure he finally delivers...

[Casino67]

From Issa's posts on Twitter. He is going to be busy.

 

CONTINUED INITIAL OVERSIGHT INVESTIGATIONS LINEUP: corruption in Afghanistan...more to come but wanted to share the lineup so far with you.

 

CONTINUED INITIAL OVERSIGHT INVESTIGATIONS LINEUP: Wikileaks, the safety of American food/medicine and effectiveness of @FDArecalls...

 

CONTINUED INITIAL OVERSIGHT INVESTIGATIONS LINEUP: failure of financial crisis inquiry commission to target origins of financial crisis....

 

INITIAL OVERSIGHT INVESTIGATIONS LINEUP: fannie/freddie and the foreclosure crisis, impact of government hyperregulation on job creation...

[ErnstBlofeld]

There is an old saying that "The Fish Rots from the Top". Issa should really exam the Obama security classification regulations. When Obama voided the Bush Administration's rule under EO 12958 he changed the entire system and made the entire system chaotic. He wanted the entire system "transparent". Well, he got his wish. This permitted an Army private armed with a Lady Gaga CD downloaded every national secret and into the hands of Wikileaks.

[SrWoodchuck]

There is an old saying that "The Fish Rots from the Top". Issa should really exam the Obama security classification regulations. When Obama voided the Bush Administration's rule under EO 12958 he changed the entire system and made the entire system chaotic. He wanted the entire system "transparent". Well, he got his wish. This permitted an Army private armed with a Lady Gaga CD downloaded every national secret and into the hands of Wikileaks.

Ernst! Excellent point!

[ErnstBlofeld]

Darrel Issa should put the Obama Administrations handling of classified documents( EO 12958) and interdepartmental handling of classified documents on the front burner not Wikileaks. The mishandling of interpartmental of classified documents caused this.It was Obama incompetence and naieve who caused this, not Wikileaks.IMHO, the Obama Administration and his National Security Coucil and spinmisters are using Julian Assange as a patsy for the mistakes Obama caused by changing the Bush administration's policy.The real scandal and focus should be on the resident on Pennsylvania Avenue for turning of intelligence services into Swiss cheese.Nothing is better is having members of President Obama's National Security Council and various members of the intelligence community explain how their classified information ended up in the hands of a Private with classified material burned on a Lady Gaga CD in front of Congressional investigators.

Edited January 4, 2011 by ErnstBlofeld