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Breaking - Report: DOJ Leaked Docs to Smear Fast & Furious Whistleblower, Says IG
breitbart.com/Big-Government ^ | 5-20-2013 | Matthew Boyle

Posted on 05/20/2013 10:18:23 AM PDT by servo1969

The Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General published a new report Monday that confirms former U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke leaked a document intended to smear Operation Fast and Furious scandal whistleblower John Dodson.

The DOJ IG said it found “Burke’s conduct in disclosing the Dodson memorandum to be inappropriate for a Department employee and wholly unbefitting a U.S. Attorney.”

“We are referring to OPR our finding that Burke violated Department policy in disclosing the Dodson memorandum to a member of the media for a determination of whether Burke’s conduct violated the Rules of Professional Conduct for the state bars in which Burke is a member,” the IG wrote.

Burke resigned from his post as U.S. Attorney over the incident in August 2011, the first major Department of Justice official to leave his or her post in the Fast and Furious scandal. He said after the fact, in interviews with congressional investigators, that he now views leaking the document as a “mistake.”

In addition to Burke’s involvement in leaking the document, emails the IG uncovered show senior officials at the Department of Justice discussed smearing Dodson.

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1 posted on 05/20/2013 10:18:23 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: servo1969
Holder has got to go....


2 posted on 05/20/2013 10:20:14 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (Piffle....)
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To: servo1969

Defund the DOJ


3 posted on 05/20/2013 10:20:50 AM PDT by Viennacon
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To: servo1969

And the hits just keep comin’!


4 posted on 05/20/2013 10:21:02 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (What difference does it make?)
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To: servo1969
In addition to Burke’s involvement in leaking the document, emails the IG uncovered show senior officials at the Department of Justice discussed smearing Dodson.

Obama has turned the entire US government into a criminal conspiracy.

5 posted on 05/20/2013 10:22:53 AM PDT by livius
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To: servo1969

Megyn Kelly just reported on Fox that Do also went after William LaJeuness(sp) for his reporting on F&F


6 posted on 05/20/2013 10:23:16 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: Veggie Todd

“One of those was Tracy Schmaler, the Director of the Department’s Office of Public Affairs, who resigned her position at the DOJ after emails uncovered through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request showed that she worked with leftwing advocacy group Media Matters for America to smear whistleblowers and members of Congress and the media who sought to investigate DOJ scandals under Attorney General Eric Holder.”

We knew this kind of thing was happening..


7 posted on 05/20/2013 10:23:28 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: servo1969
Once again, a report in the alternative media. The MSM wall is diverting, deemphasizing and spinning these scandals to protect their god.
8 posted on 05/20/2013 10:25:02 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: TigersEye; penelopesire; ConservativeMan55; AllAmericanGirl44; Nachum; Jet Jaguar; onyx; maggief

Ping


9 posted on 05/20/2013 10:25:28 AM PDT by crosslink (Moderates should play in the middle of a busy street)
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To: servo1969; All
I get this message when I try to get to the pdf file..Server Error 404 - File or directory not found. The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Anyone else having trouble? Does anyone have a working link for it?
10 posted on 05/20/2013 10:26:01 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: ColdOne

I gave up going to Breitbart because the site kept springing Trojans on me.


11 posted on 05/20/2013 10:27:20 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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LOL! Donated yet?

Click the Pic.

12 posted on 05/20/2013 10:28:14 AM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day. liberals and logic: Never confuse the two! Hi MI# !)
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To: MestaMachine

F&F ping -— with disgust

Where is that graphic of Obama & Holder behind bars and wearing orange jumpsuits when you need it!


13 posted on 05/20/2013 10:28:59 AM PDT by thouworm (Steyn: They let [Stevens] die, and then told lies over his coffin.They did that to one of their own.)
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To: ErnBatavia
"Holder has got to go...." to jail!!!

Fixed it.

14 posted on 05/20/2013 10:29:28 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: servo1969

I want to see Holder hung.


15 posted on 05/20/2013 10:29:37 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Molon Labe - Shall not be questioned)
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To: servo1969
Let's call it what it is. State-sponsored terrorism.

On this side of the border it's violations of the RICO Act. In Mexico and Honduras it's state-sponsored terrorism.

What else would you call heavily arming international criminal syndicates within a foreign country wherein that country is in a death struggle with those syndicates?

Especially when it goes beyond thousands of assault rifles to include grenades, RPGs, shoulder fired rockets, anti-aircraft guns, night vision equipment, body armor and special deals to bring their drugs onto our soil with legal impunity?

Not to mention that the rip crew that killed BP Agent Brian Terry was there with DEA and FBI assistance and approval to attack and kill a rival cartel's smuggling crew.

Let's not leave out the DEA laundering millions of dollars for the drug cartels by setting up bank accounts for them that they otherwise couldn't do.

It's organized, it is spread through every Federal LEA and it violates numerous domestic laws and numerous statutes and treaties that deal with foreign nations. Yet none of it has been officially sanctioned. It's the FedGov acting like mafiosa.

0bama, Holder and Hillary Clinton are all deeply involved in this and it is state-sponsored terrorism. These criminal thugs are dragging our country down to the level of Tehran and Pyongyang.

16 posted on 05/20/2013 10:30:00 AM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
the site kept springing Trojans on me.
Well, you can't have too much protection these days. Oh wait ...
17 posted on 05/20/2013 10:30:12 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: ColdOne

I got it ok just now via here http://www.justice.gov/oig/reports/2013/s1305.pdf

Maybe they had a bad link before.


18 posted on 05/20/2013 10:30:31 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: servo1969

And the wheels of corruption go round and round.


19 posted on 05/20/2013 10:31:05 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (President Obma; The Slumlord of the Rentseekers)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/

Gunwalker File

http://www.nachumlist.com/gunrunner.htm


20 posted on 05/20/2013 10:31:08 AM PDT by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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