House Republicans say they will not overreach on probing the Obama administration, having learned lessons from investigating the Monica Lewinsky scandal during the Clinton administration.

GOP leaders will help coordinate various House investigations into controversies involving the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Internal Revenue service (IRS) and the State Department.

But the key Republican lawmaker with jurisdiction on all these matters said that a rerun of the Clinton-era probes won't occur.

“These are all different agencies of government. This administration owns the failures, but not necessarily the direct blame … we’re looking at each individual case so it’s very different than what you view historically as a target where it [was] always about President Clinton. This isn’t about President Obama,” House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) told The Hill.
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A senior GOP lawmaker said, “There is an old rule that says, ‘When your enemy is in the process of killing himself, [don’t get in the way]’ ... [the Obama administration is] in their own lockdown mode. As long as we do what is responsible, we don’t become the issue.”

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/300345...ky-era-missteps

By all means, don't offend the president.

hey! I think I agree with you Cedric. but how do "both" occur?

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hey! I think I agree with you Cedric. but how do "both" occur?

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Just like Watergate.

The "Ervin" hearings didn't unearth anything that hadn't already been discovered by the WaPo and the networks.

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