# Darrell Issa: This time you've gone too far **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 21, 2012, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darrell-issa-this-time-youve-gone-too-far/638388 "2012-10-21T06:13:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darrell-issa-this-time-youve-gone-too-far/638388/41 "2012-10-24T01:04:29Z")
Thank you, Arnold Schwarzenegger, for keeping this douchebag out of California’s Governor’s Mansion. (Issa bankrolled the Grey Davis recall to the tune of $1.7 million in an attempt to buy the seat for himself, only to have Arnold jump in at the last minute. It was hilarious watching Issa cry like a little girl at his press conference where he withdrew his candidacy because he needed to" focus on working towards Middle East peace". He even denied that Arnold entering had anything to do with his quitting. Yeah, right :rolleyes:) ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darrell-issa-this-time-youve-gone-too-far/638388/42 "2012-10-24T01:49:26Z")
> [@](#): > > [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](#): > > [Issa doubles down, said State Department concerns ‘crap’](http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/10/22/issa_doubles_down_said_state_department_concerns_crap) > > I wish this was getting more traction. His timing was good - the Friday right before the last debate only two weeks away from the election. Other priorities are going to make this go away. Unreal. > [@](#): > > “Congress doesn’t recognize and will not recognize ‘for official use only,’ ‘sensitive.’ Those are not classified. We would note it, but we would continue,” Issa said, according to the released transcript. “Anything below Secret is in fact just a name on a piece of paper. And I think it is important to understand that. So if you have seen papers that say ‘for official use only,’ ‘State Department sensitive,’ that is crap.” How about then, from now on, anything that Issa receives from anyone in the State Department is stamped in large red letters: > [@](#): > > classified, top secret, anyone revealing this will be charged with treason. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darrell-issa-this-time-youve-gone-too-far/638388/43 "2012-10-24T17:30:32Z")
No Republican deserves to be in office until polyps like Issa are forever banned from their ranks. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darrell-issa-this-time-youve-gone-too-far/638388/44 "2012-10-24T18:44:53Z")
That is IMHO is one of the main reasons why people should not vote for the Republicans this election, their Tea Party elements are taking over and we sure should not be encouraging people like Paul Ryan by electing them to even higher offices or places of influence. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darrell-issa-this-time-youve-gone-too-far/638388/45 "2012-10-24T18:55:01Z")
Don’t worry about it, there’s a new era of bi-partisan leadership coming with Romney, who will reacharound Democrats…reach _across_ to Democrats. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darrell-issa-this-time-youve-gone-too-far/638388/46 "2012-10-26T23:13:32Z")
I’m OK with this. Let’s just make sure that Issa is punished in exactly the same way as the Wikileaks leaker. If Issa only loses his Congressional seat, then Bradley Manning (or whatever his name is) only gets a dishonorable discharge. If Issa is re-elected, Manning gets his military career back. And so forth. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_stamos_left_ear/32/3198_2.png) [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darrell-issa-this-time-youve-gone-too-far/638388/47 "2014-01-11T20:54:35Z")
Once again, Darrell Issa has compromised security with his bullshit antics, this time the security of the Obamacare website and all of the millions who have put sensitive information there: > [@](#): > > [HealthCare.gov](http://HealthCare.gov) could clearly be compromised if, say, sensitive documents were leaked to the public that included software code or other technical information that provided hackers with a road map for vulnerabilities in the site. Such documents currently reside with Issa, who obtained them last month – unredacted – after subpoenaing them from MITRE Corporation, the federal contractor overseeing security of the website. > > Throughout the subpoena process, MITRE officials warned Issa in [three](http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/MITRE115.pdf) [separate](http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/MITRE1122.pdf) [letters](http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/MITRE124.pdf) that the documents could result in “irreparable harm” to the website’s security if they end up in the wrong hands, even with redactions. They offered to let him come into MITRE’s offices and view redacted versions of them. Beyond that, White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler sent Issa [a letter](http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/ruemmler.pdf) warning that disclosures could increase risks to all IT systems across the federal government. Top House Democrats, meanwhile, pressed for a classified briefing with administration cyber security officials to assess the risks posed by a potential leak of those documents. > > But Issa insisted on getting the unredacted versions, and on Dec. 17, he posted excerpts from them online in [a letter](http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/sebelius1217.pdf) to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in which he raised concerns with the website’s security. > > [Huffington Post](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/10/obamacare-website-darrell-issa_n_4569255.html?1389367586) Fuck this fucking fuck. He needs to be censured and to have any and all requests for any information including the menu for lunch in the Congress dinning hall denied because he’s a treasonous fuck stick who cannot be trusted with the information. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darrell-issa-this-time-youve-gone-too-far/638388/48 "2014-01-11T21:18:50Z")
> [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](#): > > Once again, Darrell Issa has compromised security with his bullshit antics, this time the security of the Obamacare website and all of the millions who have put sensitive information there:Fuck this fucking fuck. He needs to be censured and to have any and all requests for any information including the menu for lunch in the Congress dinning hall denied because he’s a treasonous fuck stick who cannot be trusted with the information. Makes you wonder how he got to be the richest man in Congress, doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darrell-issa-this-time-youve-gone-too-far/638388/49 "2014-01-11T21:34:28Z")
How far can a legislator go in activities that threaten the security of the country before her colleagues decide that “enough is enough?” If the Huff Post article is accurate, this goes well beyond the normal pale. In October of 2013, Mr. Issa directly endangered our allies in Libya, but since those were “just some random non-Americans and who cares about them”, the incident didn’t even make it onto the radar for very long. I am a critic of how the website roll-out went, but deliberately providing information that could fatally compromise its security is clearly a criminal act. Or, at least it is to me. Others more well-versed in the arcane magic of law might be able to address this more cogently. Right now, I am more than a bit miffed at this … human who thinks that he is above reproach. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darrell-issa-this-time-youve-gone-too-far/638388/50 "2014-01-11T21:51:42Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Makes you wonder how he got to be the richest man in Congress, doesn’t it? Wasn’t it by car alarms? I know that he was a sorry excuse for a human being before he even got into politics, because he put his own voice on that asinine alarm that says, “Step back! You are too close to my car!” It makes sense that anyone who would sell such a piece of crap would be a piece of crap in the legislature. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darrell-issa-this-time-youve-gone-too-far/638388/51 "2014-01-11T22:56:49Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > Wasn’t it by car alarms? And isn’t that just the most ironic thing you’ve heard today, considering his past arrests for grand theft auto? ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darrell-issa-this-time-youve-gone-too-far/638388/52 "2014-01-11T22:58:11Z")
Seriously, to what extent is Issa the same as Snowden? I don’t think being a member of Congress means you can get away with leaking privileged information. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darrell-issa-this-time-youve-gone-too-far/638388/53 "2014-01-12T00:41:06Z")
My dark suspicion is that his lurking intention is to provide hints to hackers so they can sabotage the exchanges and he can blame Obama. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darrell-issa-this-time-youve-gone-too-far/638388/54 "2014-01-12T05:01:45Z")
To be honest, if any parts of the website have serious known security issues that the contractor is covering up, the website shouldn’t be running. Hackers will find these flaws ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darrell-issa-this-time-youve-gone-too-far/638388/55 "2014-01-12T06:15:01Z")
Is there any chance – any chance at all – that the voters of Issa’s district will turn him out in November? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darrell-issa-this-time-youve-gone-too-far/638388/56 "2014-01-12T06:19:14Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > I know that he was a sorry excuse for a human being before he even got into politics, because he put his own voice on that asinine alarm that says, “Step back! You are too close to my car!” It makes sense that anyone who would sell such a piece of crap would be a piece of crap in the legislature. Car alarms that talk like that are worthy of a Pit thread unto themselves – except I only encountered one and that was some years ago. I gather they never sold well. Anybody know anything about that? (I think the one I heard said something like “Please stand away from this vehicle” in a faux intimidating voice.) Any time a car talks to me like that, I would be seriously tempted to effect some serious post-hoc damage. So much for alarms like _protecting_ a vehicle. Anybody know if that has actually ever happened? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darrell-issa-this-time-youve-gone-too-far/638388/57 "2014-01-12T07:23:06Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Is there any chance – any chance at all – that the voters of Issa’s district will turn him out in November? Orange County and San Diego. What Che Guevara called the Anal Wart of the Beast. Well, he would have, if had ever been there. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darrell-issa-this-time-youve-gone-too-far/638388/58 "2014-01-12T07:32:22Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Is there any chance – any chance at all – that the voters of Issa’s district will turn him out in November? It’s a Republican stronghold. They made a joke about on the West Wing that the last Democrat elected there won by railing against Lincoln. ---
**Author:** ![Terr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darrell-issa-this-time-youve-gone-too-far/638388/59 "2014-01-12T07:33:18Z")
> [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](#): > > Once again, Darrell Issa has compromised security with his bullshit antics, this time the security of the Obamacare website and all of the millions who have put sensitive information there:Fuck this fucking fuck. He needs to be censured and to have any and all requests for any information including the menu for lunch in the Congress dinning hall denied because he’s a treasonous fuck stick who cannot be trusted with the information. You’re a biased idiot who apparently can’t read simple English. The article you’re quoting claims that Issa _could_ (if he published them) compromise the [healthcare.gov](http://healthcare.gov)’s security with the documents he subpoenaed. It definitely doesn’t say that he did compromise it. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darrell-issa-this-time-youve-gone-too-far/638388/60 "2014-01-12T07:38:25Z")
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