Issa escorted out of Benghazi deposition

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15. Years ago Debbie Schlussel wrote a column claiming Issa had ties to Hezbollah

It didn't get any pickup elsewhere in the media, so it was quickly forgotten.

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/92/darrell-issa-terrorisms-manchurian-candidate/

August 1, 2003, - 5:28 pm
Darrell Issa: Terrorism’s Manchurian Candidate

By Debbie Schlussel

I’m a proud conservative Republican from Michigan, but I’m appealing to Californians of all political stripes not to support the recall of Gov. Gray Davis.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista)–funder of the recall effort and the only announced candidate to replace Davis–might be the contemporary, real-life version of Frank Sinatra’s “Manchurian Candidate.” Instead of communists, Issa’s allies are radical Islamists and supporters of terrorism against Americans, Israelis, Christians and Jews.


In a short political career, Issa’s statements and actions consistently defend terrorists, terrorist groups and terrorist sponsor states.

Saudi Arabia’s longtime lobbyist, James Gallagher, contributed to Issa’s campaign in November 2002, and Issa tried to overturn key classified evidence portions of President Bill Clinton’s 1995 counterterrorism bill. Issa is also credited with “declawing” the Patriot Act.

Then, there’s Issa’s dance with Hezbollah, an organization that is on the State Department’s terrorist list and one of the largest components of Al Qaeda. In the 1980s, Hezbollah–which means “Party of Allah”–murdered more than 260 U.S. Marines while they slept in Beirut and tortured to death Col. Richard Higgins (in 1990) and CIA attache William Buckley.

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