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Chaffetz Obliterates Stunned FBI Official; Serves Him With A Subpoena During Testimony

For those of our readers who haven’t yet had the pleasure of hearing Jason Chaffetz (R – Utah) absolutely obliterate Jason Herring, the FBI’s acting assistant director for congressional affairs, during a recent emergency hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government, might we suggest that you do so post haste. While there are several epic exchanges in the short 4 minute video, the best is the very end where Chaffetz literally serves Herring with a subpoena while he’s still on the stand.

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Chaffetz: “You don’t get to decide what I get to see. I get to see it all. I was elected by some 800,000 people to come to Congress and see classified information. I was elected by my colleagues here to be the chairman of this committee. That’s the way our Constitution works. Will the FBI provide to Congress the full file with no redactions of personal identifiable information?”

Herring: “I cannot make that commitment sitting here today.”

Chaffetz: “Then I’m going to issue a subpoena and I’m going to do it right now. So let’s go. I’ve signed this subpoena. We want all the 302s and we would like the full file. You can accept service on behalf of the FBI?”

Herring: “Certainly.”

Chaffetz: “You are hereby served. We have a duty and a responsibility. You can sight no precedent, nothing in the constitution, no legal precedent, you know this is important to us. You now have your subpoena. We would all like to see this information.”

Harvard Crushes The “Obama Recovery” Farce With 9 Simple Charts

by Tyler Durden

A couple of months back we posted 9 charts that, at least in our minds, debunked the myth of the “Obama Recovery” despite suggestions from the administration that any such efforts were just a futile attempt at “peddling fiction” (our original post: “These Are The 9 Zero Hedge Charts Showing “Obama’s Recovery” That Angered The Washington Post“).

Turns out that Harvard likes to dabble in “fiction peddling” as well:

In a recent study entitled “Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided” (study can be viewed in its entirety at the end of this post), Harvard University points out that, despite claims of an “Obama Recovery,” in fact, the U.S. economy has continued to deteriorate in the aftermath of the “great recession.” Among other things, Harvard attributes the economic deterioration to a “lack of economic strategy, especially at the federal level” and a “political system was once the envy of many nations” but has now “become our greatest liability.” Below are a couple of the key conclusions: