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Fast and Furious: White House, DOJ targeted Sharyl Attkisson (and Rep. Issa)
Human Events ^ | Thursday, November 20, 2014 | John Hayward

Posted on 11/20/2014 3:02:41 PM PST by kristinn

Judicial Watch is looking to crowdsource the huge pile of documents finally delivered by the Obama Administration in response to their Freedom of Information Act lawsuit on Operation Fast and Furious. (In the unlikely event the mainstream media decides not to embargo this story, I don’t want to catch any of you claiming that it was a FOIA request. The request got ignored by the Most Transparent Administration In History, so they had to file a lawsuit. The document production is occurring under the stern gaze of a federal judge.)

Here’s a little taste of what has already been discovered, offered by Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton as a bit of catnip for aspiring crowd-source helpers interested in searching through the 42,000 pages of documentation President Obama risibly concealed by asserting executive privilege:

"We are posting these documents for the public to review and hope that crowd-sourcing our investigation will lead to more accountability for the Fast and Furious outrage. The documents are explosive. For instance, our initial review of the documents shows the DOJ and White House targeted then-CBS journalist Sharyl Attkisson:

"On October 4, 2011, Holder’s top press aide Tracy Schmaler tells White House Deputy Press Sectary Eric Schultz, “I’m also calling Sharryl’s [sic] editor and reaching out to Scheiffer. She’s out of control.”

"Schultz responded, “Good. Her piece was really bad for the AG.”

"Schultz also detailed to Schmaler that he was working with a journalist (Susan Davis, formerly of the National Journal) to target Rep. Darryl Issa (R-CA), the House Republican leading the charge on Fast and Furious:

"“And I sent NJ’s Susan Davis your way. She’s writing on Issa/FandF and I said you could load her up on the leaks, etc.”

"(Davis authored a critical profile of Issa a few weeks later.)

"This one email chain implicates both the Obama White House and the Department of Justice in an effort to secretly undermine a congressional investigation and to suppress critical media reporting of the Obama administration. No wonder Obama waited until after he was safely reelected (and even after this year’s elections) to finally release this material that documents obstruction and abuse at the highest levels.

"The documents show that Obama made the extraordinary assertion of executive privilege over emails between Eric Holder and his wife, Sharon Malone. The emails show that Holder sent his spouse internal DOJ emails about Fast and Furious developments. There is nothing that would have been covered by executive privilege in these or other key records that show Barack Obama abused his power to keep them secret during his reelection campaign up until now."

More at the source link.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2deadfeds; 300deadmexicans; atf; attkisson; banglist; brianterry; cia; dea; dhs; doj; fastandfurious; fbi; gunrunner; gunwalker; holder; holderemails; holderwife; hsi; ice; issa; jaimezapata; judicialwatch; jw; obama; obamascandals; sharylattkisson; terry; tracyschmaler; tyranny; zapata
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1 posted on 11/20/2014 3:02:41 PM PST by kristinn
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To: kristinn

SeeBS is gonna be all over this /s


2 posted on 11/20/2014 3:07:40 PM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: kristinn
Nixon does it and all hell breaks loose.

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3 posted on 11/20/2014 3:08:15 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The mid-term elections were perfect for him. Now Obama can really lead from behind.)
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To: kristinn
Holder’s top press aide Tracy Schmaler tells White House Deputy Press Sectary Eric Schultz, “I’m also calling Sharryl’s [sic] editor and reaching out to Scheiffer. She’s out of control.”

That would be Bob Scheiffer, of CBS Sunday Morning talking head fame.

Put Scheiffer up in front of Congress, swear him in and start asking him what exactly his role was in shutting Atkisson down and her eventual departure from CBS.

Let the old turkey stew in his juices.

4 posted on 11/20/2014 3:08:40 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: kristinn

"[To shut-up Atkisson for questioning The Establishment] I'm reaching out to Scheiffer."

5 posted on 11/20/2014 3:10:14 PM PST by gaijin
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To: kristinn

I’m a fast reader and would love to help dig through the documents .... how do I (or we as in FR) get involved in this effort? I have several weeks of vacation time I’m sitting home and burning up during the holidays. Nothing better to do, may as well help!


6 posted on 11/20/2014 3:10:51 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Cap Huff; SE Mom

Thesw people are a menace..


7 posted on 11/20/2014 3:11:06 PM PST by Dog (Founding member of the Osama Bin Laden was alive the whole time club..)
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To: gaijin
An enraged White House worked with Sue Davis (above photo) to target the reputation of Issa
8 posted on 11/20/2014 3:14:57 PM PST by gaijin
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To: gaijin

I will run naked thru a tick and chigger invested field if Scheiffer is officially questioned.


9 posted on 11/20/2014 3:16:29 PM PST by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: kristinn
People need to go to jail for this. Or Hang.
10 posted on 11/20/2014 3:19:32 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (Compared to obama, Jimmy Carter looks like Winston Churchill.)
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To: usconservative

How t=do these people look at themselves in the mirror?


11 posted on 11/20/2014 3:20:25 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (Compared to obama, Jimmy Carter looks like Winston Churchill.)
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To: kristinn
Sue Davis now reports at the WALL STREET JOURNAL and sometimes teaches at GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY.

3 dead US cops and 300 dead Mexicans:

WSJ and Georgetown and to be ASSOCIATED with the smear of the lone MSM reporter who went to bat on this…?

Wall Street Journal doesn't mind cover-ups.

Georgetown doesn't mind cover-ups.

12 posted on 11/20/2014 3:20:42 PM PST by gaijin
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To: usconservative

http://www.judicialwatch.org/ff/


13 posted on 11/20/2014 3:20:57 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: kristinn

COLLUSION and CONSPIRACY.

IMPEACH, REMOVE, REPEAT.


14 posted on 11/20/2014 3:21:04 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: MileHi

Well if they won’t impeach him over immigration, how about this? I mean to what extent can he continue to abuse his power and break laws before someone will exercise the Constitutional authority to get him out of there?


15 posted on 11/20/2014 3:21:50 PM PST by dandiegirl
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To: DoughtyOne

And nobody even died with Nixon.


16 posted on 11/20/2014 3:22:50 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: Dog

They all need to be sent to their rooms, alone, without cocktails to think about it.


17 posted on 11/20/2014 3:22:53 PM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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Well, that might explain my thoughts about...

Darryl da Diffuser


18 posted on 11/20/2014 3:24:48 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: kristinn
Crowd sourcing the DOJ Fast and Furious data dump - i love it.

It is a old time Clinton Administration lawyer trick to dump tens of thousands of documents at the last minute in a response to subpoena in order overwhelm and task saturate the legal review team of the opposing side.

That is all well and good for a law suit but Obamas lawyers have miscalculated on this one because the Court of Public Opinion is the court Obama needs to fear at this point.

Ten judicial watch legal investigators in their offices may be overwhelmed by 42000 documents but ten thousand or more highly educated and motivated duly deputized investigative members of the internet with time on their hands will make short work of this while allowing anyone to get a look at Eric Holders abuse of power and obstruction of justice at DOJ

19 posted on 11/20/2014 3:25:29 PM PST by rdcbn
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To: kristinn

““I’m also calling Sharryl’s [sic] editor and reaching out to Scheiffer. She’s out of control.”

I wonder what her editor did after being contacted. Backed up Sharyl and told the white house to take a hike or did the white houses bidding.


20 posted on 11/20/2014 3:27:19 PM PST by lowbridge
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