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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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81 posted on 05/20/2013 4:37:55 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: MestaMachine

Thanks for the ping Mesta...


82 posted on 05/20/2013 5:20:12 PM PDT by GOPJ (It's Gotten So Bad for Obama Fox News Changed Its Slogan to "See. I Told You So!"- Leno)
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To: GOPJ

You are welcome, as always.


83 posted on 05/20/2013 5:22:48 PM PDT by MestaMachine
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To: ConservativeInPA

“I want to see Holder hung.”

The 0 says Holder is well hung.


84 posted on 05/20/2013 6:07:35 PM PDT by chooseascreennamepat (Democrats are experts at redefining words.)
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To: chooseascreennamepat

Man, I have been abused all day over my lack of grammar. I’m still laughing, and I will never write hung when I mean hanged.


85 posted on 05/20/2013 6:11:39 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Molon Labe - Shall not be questioned)
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To: piasa

Thanks; you are on this one :-)


86 posted on 05/20/2013 7:15:54 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: ErnBatavia

Only Holder????

A fish rots from the head on down.....


87 posted on 05/20/2013 7:40:07 PM PDT by Forty-Niner ( the barely bare, berry bear formally known as Ursus Arctos Horibilis...Hear me roar!)
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To: livius
Obama has turned the entire US government into a criminal conspiracy.

Even just one of any of these offenses would have brought down any other president.

88 posted on 05/21/2013 5:18:29 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: spokeshave

God bless those men. And may retribution fall quickly on those who are responsible. The entire administration is guilty of countless crimes.


89 posted on 05/21/2013 5:20:39 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: dennisw
Holder looks pretty white in that photo. I wonder how much affirmative action benefits he’s gotten in his life

It's odd but the majority of rabid black racists look at least 1/2 Caucasion, if not more.

90 posted on 05/21/2013 5:22:36 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: baddog 219

Defeatism is stupid.


91 posted on 05/21/2013 5:23:48 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Mozilla

Sheryl Atkinsson’s computer problems:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022121/posts

Sharyl Attkisson’s computers compromised
Politico ^ | 5/21/13 | Dylan Byers


92 posted on 05/21/2013 5:26:46 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: TigersEye

Thank you for your continued finding news and posting links and such.

I can only fervently hope that enough Rs have guts to deal with this as it needs to be dealt with. What can an ant like citizen do against this evil coup?


93 posted on 05/21/2013 5:29:45 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: little jeremiah
Like Malcolm X he had some reddish hair and freckles

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, Red hair in history [Archive] - The Long Hair Community Discussion ... forums.longhaircommunity.com/archive/index.php/t-78672.html‎ Sep 20, 2011 – uhh:If you mean that your hair was naturally red at some point, then that ... Malcolm X was a red head , he had prominent freckles as well. Can black people have red hair? [Archive] - Straight Dope Message ... boards.straightdope.com › ... › Main › General Questions‎ Sep 17, 2011 - 15 posts - 14 authors Malcolm X (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X), for one: ... According to one biographer, at birth he had "ash-blonde hair ... But I also met some non-albinos blacks who had red hair (not Irish ... Folks with this type of mutation will have reddish/yellowish complexions (often with freckles) and reddish hair.

94 posted on 05/21/2013 5:50:20 PM PDT by dennisw (too much of a good thing is a bad thing - Joe Pine)
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To: servo1969

The DOJ is defending Fast & Furious like it was a legal operation? Obamalievable!


95 posted on 05/22/2013 5:17:38 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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