Posted on 11/05/2014 10:29:34 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Posted By J. Christian Adams On November 5, 2014 @ 5:31 am In Politics | 1 Comment
An email dump has revealed that the White House pulled the trigger on firing former Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod. Sherrod is suing Andrew Breitbart’s widow and the waggish Larry O’Connor for defamation, alleging that Breitbart’s publication of her remarks made before an NAACP crowd caused her harm, including her firing.
The Obama administration has up until now denied that the White House had any role in Sherrod’s firing. Not true. The AP:
But a newly-released email sent by Vilsack himself suggests he was awaiting a decision from White House officials on how to proceed.
“She has offered her resignation which is appropriate,” reads an email from the initials “TJV” to Dallas Tonsager, then the USDA undersecretary of rural development and Sherrod’s boss. “The WH is involved and we are waiting for the go-ahead to accept her resignation. I suspect some direction from WH soon.“
This email revelation makes Sherrod’s lawsuit even more tenuous. If the White House was entangled in the Sherrod decision, it undermines Sherrrod’s theories of causality by converting the entire event into a saga of racially charged palace intrigue. If the White House was dictating Sherrod’s fate, it is a blow to her claim that Andrew Breitbart (and now his widow) is responsible for causing her termination.
Perhaps Sherrod will file a Rule 19(a) motion to add a necessary party to her lawsuit such as President Obama or other top White House officials as a defendant. If she doesn’t, it will reveal a great deal about what her lawsuit was about all along.
(See more at Rule of Law: Vampires, Shirley Sherrod Lawyers Seek to Sue Widow of Andrew Breitbart)
WMAL’s own Larry O’Connor exonerated by DOJ document dump:
Sherrod is suing Andrew Breitbart’s widow and the waggish Larry O’Connor for defamation, alleging that Breitbart’s publication of her remarks made before an NAACP crowd caused her harm, including her firing.
Thanks.
Just emailed Larry this article.
In any case, you said it, your remarks from a public event were published and you want to sue?
Give it a rest and send out your resume...
The funny thing, it was never a secret that the order came from the White House. She has been shameless in suing Breitbart when it was no secret that it was the White House that fired her.
countersuit.
engage.
bttt
How many people have lost jobs and positions over the very same? Why would she be exempt ?
The question is, why didn't the relevant people at USDA relay that information to the WH? Or rather, since I very much expect that they did, why didn't the WH wait to get Ms. Sherrod's side of the story before throwing her under the bus? Who made that bad call? There were a couple of people in the Obama WH at that time who had fairly brutalitarian reputations. It would be interesting to know who Tom Vilsack, Dallas Tonsager, and Cheryl Cook talked to. None of those three, I think, would have acted so crudely.
Apparently the WH wanted Sherrod gone before Glenn Beck, then at his peak, ran with the story that evening. I very strongly suspect that the relevant people at USDA pushed back as hard as they could, and got slapped down. When the WH realized it had made a mistake, it sent Vilsack out to fall on his sword.
THIS SHOULD end the b@tch’s Lawsuit on Andrew’s WIDOW!!! I will NEVER believe he wasn;t Killed by the left...somehow.....Food Poisoning from that dinner the night before???
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