Darrell Issa Is a Useful Bully

Last week's Senate Intelligence Committee report on the attack in Benghazi, Libya, is the latest repudiation of Representative Darrell Issa's efforts to sensationalize the diplomatic security failure in Benghazi and transform it into a political scandal. It follows similar exposures of Issa's efforts to distort the "Fast and Furious" fiasco along the Mexican border and transform that into a political scandal. Of course, Issa's work in both those instances pales before his entrepreneurship in personally manufacturing the "scandal" at the Internal Revenue Service, which, like so much of Issa's endeavors, appears destined for the political junkyard.

Issa, the head of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, wields his chairman's gavel like a switchblade. His recklessness is feared.