To your point:
Carney: White House, Treasury strategized how to tell public
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PS: Maggief, thanks for the pings and your sleuthing.
Maggief highlights below:
Wilkens is the guy to look at.: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022192/posts?page=193#193
WILKENS :http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022192/posts?page=156#156
WILKENS:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022192/posts?page=258#258
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3022243/posts
The Obama Justice Department has seized the phone records of numbers that are associated with White House staffers and, apparently, with Fox News reporters, according to a document filed on October 13, 2011, in the case of Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, a former State Department contractor accused of violating the Espionage Act for allegedly leaking classified information to James Rosen, a Fox News reporter. Ronald C. Machen, Jr., the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, who is prosecuting the case, has seized records associated with two phone numbers at the White House, at least five numbers associated with Fox News,
From the Securities and Exchange Commission to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Central Intelligence Agency to the Federal Communications Commission, many lawyers in top positions in the federal government have something in common—they’re from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.
More than any other law firm, Wilmer has populated the Obama administration with high-profile alums. At least 20 partners have left since 2009 for senior government posts. A handful have come back, but 17 others, including U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ronald Machen Jr., Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin, Internal Revenue Service chief counsel William Wilkins, and SEC division of corporation finance head Meredith Cross, are still on the job.