The scandal surrounding the Secret Service continues to get notice from the media — and from Congress. Rep. Darrell Issa, chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told CBS earlier today that he doesn’t plan on opening a separate investigation into the matter, at least not yet. However, Issa pledged to “look over the shoulder” of the Inspector General as the DHS office conducts a probe into how one or more prostitutes penetrated the secure zone that the Secret Service had set up for President Obama’s trip to the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia:
“What we see is that this story is larger than eleven individuals,” said Issa on “CBS This Morning” on Monday. “It’s part of what has been, told to us, as a pattern of behavior that’s built up, so called ‘wheels up’ parties and the like and clearly you have an elite unite that we count on to have the greatest of security not just for the president but for the cabinet for other officials and we need to know that they’re living up to on a broad basis.”
“We clearly have lost confidence and we need to get that confidence back by knowing that the system will be changed,” he warned.
Issa said he had heard many reports that Secret Service agents often celebrate once the president has completed a visit with a ‘wheels up’ party, but said this incident was not comparable.
“Okay, fine, that’s when you can sort of let your hair down. The question is in this case you had a pre-wheels down party. You had drinking, you had activities that clearly compromised the ring of security, at least some because you now had people inside the secure areas, people who could have come in with all kinds of microphones, or in fact could have done something or could have later on blackmailed,” said Issa. “All of this went on before the president arrived, so this really goes beyond what we’ve heard in the past. It’s an area of concern.”
Read More at hotair.com. By Ed Morrissey.
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Oh sure let Congress investigate the Secret Service…….Then can the Secret Service investigate Congress? The Secret Service probably took their cue from Congress……lets see…..how many congressmen and representatives have been caught with their pants down????? This would be a joke if it wasn’t such a sad state of ‘affairs’ ……in many ways.
How about finishing the, “Fast And Furious,” investigation! We need to get Holder and his raciest bunch out of office! All they do is start one investigation after another, they never get any indictments! These are nothing but diversions, if they get enough of these things going, everyone forgets about the really important ones!
You read my mind…I’m much more concerned with finishing that investigation than starting another “Naughtygate” that goes nowhere and costs millions that we don’t have. Who knows, maybe this is just a red herring to get everyone’s attention OFF Fast and Furious??
we the people taking is good to a point,but you know none of these treasonous trader/ovomit/devil/hitler/ the head racist a/g holdup/pelosi brain dead/napalitano useless/reid communist/panetta trader/hillary nwo agenda21/recuse me kagan the whale/doh a joke/doj a bigger joke/epa out of control/federal reserve private bank for the treasonous traders/un people who have know right dictating american policy to american citizens/ we the people its time to take back our once great country,these treasonous traders are all in bed together,and by allowing this tresonous trader to remain in office,is aiding and abetting these ineligible/squatter in the wh.its time to head to washington dc,and stop this insanity.i pray for a peacefull solution,but we are alerted/educated/prepared for a not so peaceful solution,sweep the treasonous politicians out of office.god bless ron paul,sheriff joe and cold case posse,and all american veterans,and all american citizens.one nation under god
But they won’t investigate obuma for fraud. Wow.
There are many more important government items to be discussed and looked into. This is small potatoes and not of importance. As far as I can tell, just a spin for Obama to get minds off the real issues we are facing. Let’s move on to what is important. We don’t even have real facts on the SS nor on Zimmerman, so stop jumping to conclusions. Let’s get back to real business, Issa!
You’re not serious, right?
This criminal project to cause the deaths of innocent Mexican and U.S. civilians, law enforcement officers, and military personnel, in order to try to give credence to the lie that U.S. gun sales were fueling drug wars, and use that to eviscerate the Second Amendment, is the most outrageous act of sedition since Holder under Clinton facilitated the Oklahoma City bombing to allow Clinton to make political propaganda against conservatives resisting unconstitutional federal tyranny, and against conservatives supporting Constitutional limits generally.
Government gun-running is one of the most significant impeachment counts against Holder, and against Obama, the Comintern mole who spurned American citizenship in 1981 in favor of Indonesian citizenship to evade Selective Service registration, then stole the 2008 election by fraudulently misrepresenting himself as a half Negro and a patriotic American citizen.
Sorry, read hastily, I’m off point; please delete.
The voters who elected this freaking feckless fool Darrell Issa and his RINO cohorts should kick themselves, and the RINOs out of office.
There has never been a more extravagant breach of voter trust and confidence that the failure to investigate Obama and impeach him if the facts warrant, as they certainly would.
Democrats in the House are equally culpable, for any fool can plainly see that Obama’s secrets are existential, and it is just as vital to the Democrats that they be exposed before the Democratic Convention as it is to the nation that this mole be uncovered before he creates a Reichstag moment that could lead to the destruction of the United States. The words and acts of this pretender to the Office of President can only be comprehended as those of an enemy agent, not a patriotic American citizen.
Idiots, idiots, who could not see the “open mic” incident as a mole blowing his cover!
Can’t say the same thing twice, even though replying to try to delete two different mistakes.
So I’ll try to say it differently. My hasty reply was off point because I didn’t read carefully enough; please disregard the comment with regard to Western Journalism’s breaking news, to which it does not pertain directly. If the comment stays, dear reader, if there be a reader, take it for whatever it might be worth to you. You have a license to use it wherever you think it applies.