“Darrell Issa is about to reach a regrettable milestone.
The California Republican is one summons away from issuing his 100th subpoena since becoming chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee in 2011 — all of them without a committee vote and the vast majority without the concurrence of the committee’s ranking Democrat.
The “unilateral subpoenas,” as they are known, are a departure from the way the committee has conducted its investigations for decades and an echo of the late Clinton years, when conspiracy-minded Chairman Dan Burton fired off more than 1,000 subpoenas (including one to the wrong man because of mistaken identity) and established his investigative bona fides by shooting a melon to reenact the death of Clinton friend Vince Foster.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
*Read more here from Dana Milbank / The Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-when-darrell-issa-goes-fishing/2014/07/15/6dbf3b48-0c5d-11e4-8341-b8072b1e7348_story.html