Posted on 09/09/2014 2:36:38 PM PDT by Kaslin
The aide, Brian Fallon, is a former senior aide to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and a well-known personality on Capitol Hill. The letter describes Fallon as “audibly shaken” when he realizes his request to leak documents to help get ahead of news stories about them was mistakenly made to the very office he was seeking to undermine. Issa believes the call was intended to be made to Democratic Rep. Elijah Cumming's staff, the ranking member on the oversight panel, the letter said.
According to the letter, Fallon – who is not named in the letter but confirmed he made the call – asked if the aides could release the IRS scandal documents to “selected reporters” to give Fallon an “opportunity to comment publicly on it.”
Fallon explained to Issa aides that the Justice Department's Office of Legislative Affairs had not permitted him to release the documents to the public and he wanted to get ahead of the story “before the Majority” – meaning Issa – could share it, according to the letter.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
bkmk
Just trying to get the “optics” correct on this...this is the same crap they did during the New Orleans police investigation. A fed judge lambasted the DOJ when he dismissed all charges. Of course, nothing happened to those who were involved at a minimum of unethical behavior but more actually obstruction of justice and disclosure of confidential information.
This is rich. Thing is, even getting caught with a hand in the pickle barrel, Holder is untouchable because the Republicrats will not even make a.mothion the censure the guy.
Me and Louie Gohmert are definately enjoying our breakfast asparagus this morning.
Well, when you’re using the IRS problem as a political opportunity, no one really “gets caught”. The IRS is a tool of GOVERNMENT, not just Dems. Republicans in DC want them to take our money and threaten us just as much as the Dems do.
Sadly, Issa will do NOTHING with this info....like going on TV and telling AMericans how CORRUPT the Admin us!
Oh, Fox and Friends just did the story and all they did was LAUGH!!! I don’t think any of this crap is funny.
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- Homo Hussein Electus - (or we will loot, burn, kill)
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Uh,,,,now I wonder why the IRS wants to investigate Breitbart news....
Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) sent a letter to Holder on Monday about the incident, saying he was “extremely troubled” that the Justice Department may have been trying to coordinate with the minority staff on the release of documents to the committee regarding the Internal Revenue Service targeting certain political groups.
Issa’s letter claims that Brian Fallon asked for a specific committee aide and then told that person that he wanted to get materials to “interested reporters” before sending them to the majority, so that the agency could spin the story first....
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...In the letter, first reported Tuesday by the Hill newspaper, Issa determines that the call is an indication of a “longstanding collaboration between the Obama administration and Ranking Member [Elijah] Cummings’ staff to obfuscate and prejudice the Committee’s work through under the table coordination.”
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Becca Watkins, a spokeswoman for the oversight panel, emphasized that point in an e-mailed statement, saying Fallon’s alleged conspiring compromised the checks and balances of the federal government.
Issa also claims that upon realizing that he was talking to a Republican staffer, Fallon was “audibly shaken” and tried to recant his request to leak the documents early."
Cruz Letter: Why Is The IRS Auditing Breitbart News?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3202447/posts?page=1
Related?
“The demos really are a spin off of the Nazis.”
Worse than that....much worse.
IMHO
what has ISSA actually accomplished anyway?
Thank you for posting more excerpts from the article.
I noticed Issa states in his letter that he’s “deeply troubled” by this incident.
Where’s the outrage??
And where’s the pushback against Cummings (oh wait, oh yeah, that’s right))?
Ok, I know, Issa’s a GOPe...
Pretty much. GOP standard operating procedure dictates that anyone in a position to make a difference should:
1) Wring their hands
2) Write a “strongly-worded” letter
3) Forget about it
Yet when push comes to shove at Election Day, we’ll be reminded over and over that those brave souls in the Republican Party are our only hope of rescuing America from the Demoncrats.
4) Save their powder for another fight that's more important.
-PJ
There, fixed it.
Like it matters a whit.
Nothing this admin does is an accident - every action and policy has a definitive purpose and is done for a reason.
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