DemocRAT Beatdown - Issa Slaps Crap Out of Pickering, Pickering Cries Like a Bitch, Agrees to be Deposed UNDER OATH... (Hitlary no longer viable 'RAT candidate, ever...)

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GOP lifts subpoena after Benghazi auditor agrees to be deposed
05/22/13

Rep. Darrell Issa and Ambassador Thomas Pickering have reached a deal
that will allow the diplomat to appear for a closed-door meeting with
investigators for the congressman.nbsp;

The agreement led Issa (R-Calif.), the chairman of the
Housenbsp;Oversight and Government Reform Committee, to lift his
subpoena on Pickering, who nbsp;who co-authored the State Department's
independent report on the Benghazi attack.nbsp;

“Today, Ambassador Pickering reached an agreement with the Oversight
Committee to voluntarily appear for a transcribed interview and answer
all questions posed by Committee investigators,” Issa said in a
statement. “As such, I have lifted his legal obligation to appear
tomorrow for a deposition. His appearance for a transcribed interview
with Committee investigators has been rescheduled for a date in the
near future.”

Republicans said last year's Accountability Review Board (ARB), which
investigated the attack that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and
three other Americans, failed to interview then-Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton and allowed higher-ups in the department to escape
blame.nbsp;

Issa subpoenaed Pickering after he refused to appear for a
closed-door, recorded deposition with Issa's staff. Pickering said he
preferring to testify at an open hearing.

Republicans have repeatedly asked for the ARB and the State Department
to release the list of witnesses the board spoke to as well as the
notes taken during their depositions. The interviews were not recorded
or transcribed.

One of the witnesses, the former deputy chief of mission in Libya at
the time of the attacks, said he told the ARB that Clinton personally
told Stevens to turn the Benghazi mission into a permanent U.S. post.
That makes her responsible for the State Department's decisions to
deny the embassy's requests for more security prior to the attack,
Republicans say.

Our investigation includes an examination of criticisms career State
Department officials have made about the ARB report being 'incomplete'
and letting senior officials 'off the hook,' Issa said. Ambassador
Pickering's testimony will help the Committee's effort to learn about
the board's work.

Issa said Pickering's ARB co-author, former chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen, would be invited to appear for a
public hearing alongside Pickering soon after the deposition.


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