I got yer oversight right here, pal

Most of us learned about Hillary Clinton's private email server only this year. It turns out there were questions well before:

WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton was directly asked by congressional investigators in a December 2012 letter whether she had used a private email account while serving as secretary of state, according to letters obtained by The New York Times.

But Mrs. Clinton did not reply to the letter. And when the State Department answered in March 2013, nearly two months after she left office, it ignored the question and provided no response.

The query was posed to Mrs. Clinton in a Dec. 13, 2012, letter from Representative Darrell Issa, the Republican chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Mr. Issa was leading an investigation into how the Obama administration handled its officials’ use of personal email.

Issa was investigating many things, but he never got much response from anyone in the Obama administration, and no one else seemed very curious about that lack of response. If anything, people wanted Issa to go away. Consider this response to his oversight from Michael Hirsh, writing for the Atlantic back in 2012:

I'm sorry, but can we talk turkey -- I mean, Darrell Issa -- for a moment? Is there any fair and balanced news commentator (honest ones, that is, not the Fox News version) who doubts what this guy is all about? Rep. Issa himself has made no pretense of his intentions: Nail Barack Obama first, raise Issa's profile second (or maybe that's first), and get at the truth last.

Nothing like a little ad hominem in the first line of the article. We're going to have a lot of our betters instructing us on appropriate lines of inquiry going forward. Better get your minds right and get ready for Hillary.