Posted on 09/11/2014 1:22:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A remarkable conversation about the IRS’s illegal targeting of conservative groups took place on Friday in Washington. According to Rep. Darrell Issa’s office, at 5:01 Friday Brian Fallon, a former aide to Chuck Schumer and currently a communications aide to Attorney General Eric Holder, called Issa’s office. By mistake. And it’s quite a mistake.
The purpose of the call, according to a letter Issa wrote to Holder, was to work with the intended recipient of the call to strategically leak damaging information to selected, friendly reporters and to coordinate a damage-control plan. The intended recipient of the call was apparently Rep. Elijah Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee who has gotten quite visibly nervous over the extent of the investigation into the IRS abuse–despite his attempts to protect the abusers.
Here’s Jonathan Strong at Breitbart:
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”
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Gee, ya think?
That’s too tough of a question for me. /s
Duh!!
Yes. And he’s doing a pretty good job of it so far.
Not just no, but hell no!!
Holder is protecting the IRS and all the criminal within the Democrat party.
The Democrat party is a criminal enterprise
YEP!
It’s Eric “Pumpkins” Holder until he responds to James Woods’ challenge to visit Memphis.
at all costs my friend. The folks who own the Federal Reserve obviously play for keeps.
Boehner has royally screwed up the investigation himself. Too many committees and not enough teeth.
Holder knows that it goes directly to the White House and Hussein himself. They must protect at all costs. It’s painfully obvious where the targeting orders came from.
Eric Holder is trying to protect the President and White House staff , who were the ones directing the IRS abuse of power
Wow where’d ya get that idea?
They just dropped the denial part - they've been running interference from the very beginning.
First order of business for the next congress (should be) impeach eric holder.
RE: First order of business for the next congress (should be) impeach eric holder.
HA HA HA. They’ve already declared him in contempt of Congress. Where did that land him?
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