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 ...
Sen. Dirksen often said, referring to when citizens would flood him with letters: “When I feels the heat, I sees the light.”
In recent years, it’s been “cleaned up” when quoted.
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Re: Breitbart audit
“If we wanted something we just took it. If anyone complained twice they got hit so bad, believe me, they never complained again.”
- Henry Hill, Goodfellas
Well, I guess he was just trying to be transparent. /S
Nothing will come of it, nothing ever does, even though both Holder and Cummings should be behind bars for this. I don’t know who I’m more angry at, the corrupt democrats or the spineless pubies who let this slide. There should be immediate calls for Holder’s resignation at the very least (which should have already happened for any number of previous scandals), followed swiftly by investigations of both. Where are they? The only reason for not acting swiftly on this is if there is fear of skeletons in the pubies closet being unearthed, or if the whole damn system is just rigged.
All we ever get from the stupid party is “We are deeply troubled”. They are not going to say or do anything since they believe the wind is on their back for the 2014 election. THE GOP HAS NO PRINCPLES OTHER THAN WINNING THE NEXT ELECTION - THEY STAND FOR NOTHING. That is precisely why I dropped my GOP registration and went to “I”
I hope he has been arrested.
Rhetorical question, right?
Same thing that happened during the Clinton hearings when Democrats blamed Kenneth Starr for internal leaks by the Clintons.
You mean Holder arresting his own aide? Now that is funny
You mean Holder arresting his own aide? Now that is funny
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No I mean another branch stepping in to stop the corruption.
Yup
Democrats are morons.
I’m sure this will be heavily covered by the objective Fourth Estate.
Well, Republicans called their friends at the New York Times and Washington Post and sure nuff - both promised front page stories and lots of 'outrage'. Yep... and I've got a bridge to sell... cheap.
>>>So - are the Republicans going to do something about it or just blow more smoke?<<<
Reminds me of the line from the The Outlaw Josie Wales,
“Are you going to pull those Pistols or whistle Dixie?”
There is a whole lot of whistling going on in the GOP.
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