Letter: Holder Aide Accidentally Calls Issa Staff for Help Spinning IRS Scandal

Breitbart.com ^ | September 9, 2014 | Jonathan Strong

[Kaslin]

A senior communications aide to Attorney General Eric Holder seemingly called House oversight committee chairman Darrell Issa's staff by accident and asked for their help spinning new revelations about the IRS scandal, Issa said in a September 8 letter to Holder.

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.

[SunkenCiv]

LOL! And the bounty stands at two cents!

[She_is_my_ hero]

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[Liz]

This same Holder screw-up is the one who advised Obama to delay E/O amnesty to help nervous Democrats in tight Senate races.

RESULT: Obama is now on a Mexican drug cartel hit list.