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Letter: Holder Aide Accidentally Calls Issa Staff for Help Spinning IRS Scandal
Breitbart.com ^
| September 9, 2014
| Jonathan Strong
Posted on 09/09/2014 2:36:38 PM PDT by 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.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
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posted on
09/09/2014 2:36:38 PM PDT
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Kaslin
To: Dark Wing
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posted on
09/09/2014 2:38:10 PM PDT
by
Thud
To: Kaslin
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posted on
09/09/2014 2:38:18 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Kaslin
This would have every Republican ever served resigning as Attorney General.
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posted on
09/09/2014 2:39:05 PM PDT
by
Cyman
(We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
To: Kaslin
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posted on
09/09/2014 2:39:11 PM PDT
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: BenLurkin
To: Kaslin
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posted on
09/09/2014 2:40:07 PM PDT
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
To: Kaslin
Awwww,... the new Himmler ha a problem,... .
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posted on
09/09/2014 2:40:08 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: Kaslin
Truth be damned. These are the same people forcing public policy on us with Ebola infection, Jihad relations, Nuclear Iran, etc... et, al, ad nauseum.
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posted on
09/09/2014 2:40:33 PM PDT
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: Kaslin
So - are the Republicans going to do something about it or just blow more smoke?
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posted on
09/09/2014 2:41:11 PM PDT
by
dontBSme
To: Kaslin
-— asked if the aides could release the IRS scandal documents to “selected reporters” to give Fallon an “opportunity to comment publicly on it.” -—
How very “House of Cards.”
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posted on
09/09/2014 2:41:23 PM PDT
by
St_Thomas_Aquinas
( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
To: Jewbacca
Laws are for the little people.
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posted on
09/09/2014 2:41:29 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: Kaslin
Karma.
How’s that migraine coming, Eric?
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posted on
09/09/2014 2:43:30 PM PDT
by
txhurl
(2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
To: Kaslin
So how long before Issa’s staff is accused of wrongdoing.
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posted on
09/09/2014 2:44:07 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
To: Kaslin
LOL! Issa should ask Elijah what his staff told Brian Fallon after he called Issa’s, in a public committee hearing.
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posted on
09/09/2014 2:44:32 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
How very “House of Cards.”House of Cards was a documentary.
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posted on
09/09/2014 2:45:14 PM PDT
by
thesharkboy
(posting without reading the article since 1998)
To: Kaslin
I wonder if this is part of reason Breitbart is being audited now?
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posted on
09/09/2014 2:45:20 PM PDT
by
PghBaldy
(12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: Kaslin
Ethics violations.. Corruption charges.. FReepers might be more well versed in laws broken than I, but this is ripe huh?
To: dontBSme
“””So - are the Republicans going to do something about it or just blow more smoke?”””
Issa will hold some hearings, write some letters, huff, puff, CAVE. Like always.
To: Kaslin
ROFL!!
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posted on
09/09/2014 2:46:47 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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