Rep. Issa asks grieving mothers, "Who wrote your opening statement?"
Think Progress � Rep. Issa Questions Mother Of Murdered U.S. Contractor: ‘Who Wrote Your Statement?’
Last week, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held hearings probing the work of U.S. contracting firms in Iraq. The committee heard testimony from four women whose family members were killed by insurgents in Fallujah in 2004, then burnt, dragged through the streets, and hung from a bridge. The women described how the contractor BlackwaterUSA has refused to give them information about the deaths of their loved ones to cover up its own errors.
Almost immediately, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) went on the offense, telling the women, “I don’t think your testimony today is particularly germane to the oversight of this committee.” He added, “One question I have is, the opening statement, who wrote it?”