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Hidden Hand

机译:隐藏的手

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No one in the White House looks forward to a call from Steve Castor. The lawyer in charge of the GOP's numerous probes of the Obama administration-the Internal Revenue Service targeting of the Tea Party, the handling of the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi-is known for inundating officials with demands for answers and documents. His boss, Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa of California, frequently goes on TV to accuse Obama of stonewalling. Behind the scenes, Castor and his staff of 35 assemble details, line up witnesses for the committee to question, and write voluminous, minutely footnoted reports that boil down shades-of-gray situations into black-and-white narratives with heroes and villains. Coaxing whistle-blowers to come forward is one of an investigator's most important skills, says Castor, who's been with the committee for eight years: "We're in the storytelling business, the business of putting the pieces together." Issa's hearings "lack credibility," says Democratic Representative Henry Waxman of California, who once chaired the committee. "The purpose of an oversight investigation is not to simply try and make the president look bad." Castor rejects the notion that he's pushing an anti-Obama story line. "We follow the facts," he says. "This administration is uncomfortable With oversight."
机译:白宫没有人期待史蒂夫·卡斯特(Steve Castor)的电话。负责共和党对奥巴马政府的多次调查的律师-以茶党为目标的国税局,处理对美国驻班加西外交使团的袭击-以淹没官员并要求答案和文件而闻名。他的老板,加利福尼亚州监督委员会主席达雷尔·伊萨(Darrell Issa)经常在电视上指责奥巴马任重道远。在幕后,卡斯特和他的35名工作人员汇聚了细节,为证人排队询问委员会,并撰写了大量细致的脚注报告,将灰色的情况简化为黑白描写的英雄和反派人物。担任举报员已经有八年历史的Castor说,诱使举报者挺身而出是调查员最重要的技能之一:“我们从事讲故事的业务,就是将作品拼凑在一起的业务。”曾担任该委员会主席的加利福尼亚州民主党代表亨利·沃克斯曼说,伊萨的听证会“缺乏可信度”。 “监督调查的目的不是要简单地使总统看上去不好。” Castor拒绝了他在推动反奥巴马故事的主张。他说:“我们遵循事实。” “这个政府对监督感到不自在。”

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    《Business week》 |2013年第4331期|42-42|共1页
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    Elizabeth Dwoskin;

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