The House Committees are harassing the civilians that show up to give testimony. These civilians are asking to be able to defend the truth over and above the Republicans attempts to extract political talking points that are either half truths or lies.
I am serious. Mr. Chao stated, "I am not defensive, I am trying to protect the truth." Minutes ago. The civilians can't deal with the Spanish Inquisition and are being treated as a punching bag. They can't bounce back from the Republicans interrogation techniques.
I do believe these folks belong at their jobs doing their work and not being used for political fodder by the Republicans. The Republicans are inhibiting the work that needs to be done. Issa doesn't even know what end is up. He wants to submit some memo to evidence, but, he needs to know from one of the witnesses if any of the information is classified and/or confidential and has to be redacted. The response from Mr. Chao was, "I have to review it." Issa states, "...by the end of this meeting." This is ridiculous.
At one point Mr. Chao stated the information the questions were coming from as an aspect of the website that hasn't been written yet because the first payments are not due to begin until the beginning of January. It was that aspect of the incomplete programming that was confusing the entire questioning. In other words, the Republicans found a partial code and were seeking to make a case of incompetency because of it. One of the Congressman had to come to the defense of Mr. Chao as the Republicans had no right to attempt to ruin his reputation.
This is a waste of everyone's time and is only used to satisfy some bizarre media agenda for politics. The Republicans are on a witch hunt.
