Look,I am not a Fan of congressman Issa’s political persuasion.but there are times when our political antennas will share the same signal.This is one time such time.

How Ironic,you have an AA President & an AA Attorney-General both corrupt to their souls willing to use the same Agencies of GOVT to repress ordinary Americans just as was done to African Americans & other ethnic minorities by previous American Presidents & Attorney Generals.

And what is deeply disturbing,is that the civil liberties orgs like NAACP etc,etc & others are silent.Knowing what they know they ought to be out front leading the charge against this kind of coercion from Govt.

Some are fence sitting or simply waiting for the spotlight to get nice and warm before they jump in – which hearings will do.

Issa is being assisted by Elijah Cummings chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Hopefully people are beginning to understand that abuses of power ultimately hurt everyone.

This is the guy who held hearings on Solyndra while his own pet company Aptera was going down the tubes. He won’t hold hearings unless he thinks he can nail someone he doesn’t like.

That being said, I’m glad you’re asking the question.

Rise up, revolt.

I will continue to use this in connection with anything Aaron Swartz. I don’t say this without meaning it, nor without the expectation that this is the sort of statement that puts me or anyone in the crosshairs of the regime. We have had it.

Not expecting much from Issa.

Rich vs. poor and middle class. Which side is Issa on?

Same side as Obombya’s on. There’s only one side in DC, and it’s not ours.

It is certainly legitimate not to expect too much from Republicans in general or from Darrell Issa in particular, but his promise of hearings here is not the first time he has surprised. He has actually been working with District of Columbia officials to get the DC budget process out from under the thumb of Congress, whereby for years it has been possible for the relevant, usually neanderthal congressional committee to veto the most innocuous City Council-passed measure imaginable.

So I would say stay tuned.

And it all begins with finding out exactly what happened and that requires an investigation.

What happened is that a US Attorney went harder than necessary after someone than she needed to. But if you want to turn this into The Left’s Benghazi, have at it.

Show investigations are always good theater…

Thank you, but let’s actually find out the facts first.

If you think that US Attorney was acting on her own, tbogg, I have some choice land on the east side of Staten Island to sell to you.

No need. TBogg already knows.

I’ll help you understand.

During the Bush/Cheney years, whenever politically motivated prosecutions occured (like, say, some former gov dude named Siegelman) it was likely worth investigating to see if, you know, there was “influence” from W and/or The Dick.

But during a D administration, any and ALL such trangressions buy USA’s are their sole responsibility, as there could NEVER be any conspiracy from above whatsoever.

So, no investigation needed.

See how that works??

Or, to put it another way, I’ll eat my hat in front of my web cam LIVE on this very internet if someone shows me a post during the Siegelman era where TBogg belittled the effort to investigate it and look into it.

I’m gonna order a hamburger though, just so I don’t go hungry.

I’ll bet Carmen Ortiz was wearing an earpiece with Barack Obomber whispering advice to her during all negotiations with Swartz’s attorney because he is a combination Professor Moriarty/Keyser Söze/Ming the Merciless.

Also, too, he is telling me to write these things and I am helpless before his smooth-talking ways…

But, hey, if you guys want Issa running yet another hard-hitting investigation on The Most Corrupt Administration Ever Ever Ever, knock yourselves out. I hear Jill Stein is about 1,354,735th in the line of succession.

Having virtually no respect for Issa I didn’t think much of this ‘investigation’. But as FDL’s resident bourgeois, corporatist, Barrybot, Dim-apologist has renounced it, there may be merit to it.

…the Justice Department has just confirmed that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted because of his political beliefs and to make an example out of him. That is precisely the conduct that critics, including Congressman Issa, pointed to as abusive at the memorial.

“Persecuting people for political beliefs?”

That is “exactly,” what fascists do, under the color of law.

I didn’t mean to imply that you’re a conspirator, Dude, just that you’re naive. (I’ll let OFG @ 11 take the harder line.)

And I’m sure O is content to leave it to underlings in the DOJ to make sure the Ortizes of the world toe the line.

This is the quote from that Huff Post article that jumps out at me:

prosecutors believed they needed to convict Swartz of a felony that would put him in jail for a short sentence in order to justify bringing the charges in the first place, according to two aides with knowledge of the briefing.

Good Gawd, TBogg…! Get a clue already…! Two Days Before MIT and Cambridge Cops Arrested Aaron Swartz, Secret Service Took Over the Investigation…

A’yep, it was just a ‘rogue’ Prosecutor, eh…? 8-(

And the White House staff also personally oversees every counterfeiting investigation in the US. No wonder they haven’t brought about peace and prosperity yet.

We’ll see Obama’s true position in response to the petition to remove Carmen Ortiz that has easily broken past the official response threshold.

If Ortiz was a rogue prosecutor then firing her should be no problem, rather it would be a necessity. Worth noting she blew a pretty huge forfeiture case too.

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/opposition_nazi_germany.htm

According to statistics held by the Nazis, the most common form of opposition came from those ideologically opposed to the Nazis. The primary targets for the Gestapo in this case were communists and socialists. Of the 32,500 death sentences ordered for political reasons, 20,000 of the victims were communists. For December 1941, for example, statistics held by the Central Office of the SS Reich Security Service show that 405 people were arrested for being communist or Marxist. This compares with just 12 people arrested from the Protestant church who opposed the Nazi Regime. The same statistics also show that in just that one month (December) 7,408 people were arrested for refusing to work – 239 a day.

Going after one American is unacceptable. 911 opened Pandora’s Box. Liberty got whacked by security, now Arron is free from “bullshit!” I can understand how dutiful Germans committed suicide rather than capitulating to Nazi scum.

So for an “act” of “civil disobedience” the Feds come in and the “kid” is looking at 35 years? Politically motivated, without merit, since the state DA had already handled the case? The “aggrieved party, wanted nothing to do with it. Whose bidding where the Feds doing?

“What’s next Darrell Issa? A congressional hearing on healthcare workers arrested for refusing to preform trans vaginal probes? No problem there. I forgot? Plenty of male healthcare workers, in drag?

Given the motives for Issa’s misplaced priorities shown in the past. Don’t hold your breath. Your will turn blue….

Both Issa And Cummings shared positions on the House Oversight Committee on Financial Affairs. And although Issa himself comes with tons of baggage, he was extremely decent when he was on this Committee. He wanted Paulson to scrap the idea of giving Bailouts to Banks, and instead just utilize the provisions of the policies that were put in place back when the S & L Crisis had happened. To basically see to it that there were state chartered banks in every region of the nation, who would receive monies for their districts, and who would have to lend out those monies to businesses on Main Street.

Unfortunately, Paulson, Kashkari and then Geithner and Bernanke didn’t like Issa’s idea. So we now have a nation wherein 48 cents out of every dollar of profit generated in the nation goes to the Biggest Banks. (Back in the Eighties, only 8 cents out of every dollar went to the Banks.) And the Big Banks and Financial firms are not doing anything to earn this money, other than repossess our homes, and lend each other the money to buy up smaller banks.