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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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To: Signalman

Sen. Dirksen often said, referring to when citizens would flood him with letters: “When I feels the heat, I sees the light.”

In recent years, it’s been “cleaned up” when quoted.


161 posted on 09/10/2014 6:47:42 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Kaslin

Posted to FB.


162 posted on 09/10/2014 6:58:48 AM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? You are a socialist idiot with no rational argument.)
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To: Kaslin
gotcha!
163 posted on 09/10/2014 7:12:54 AM PDT by JPG ("So sue me". OK, we will.)
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To: JPG

Re: Breitbart audit

“If we wanted something we just took it. If anyone complained twice they got hit so bad, believe me, they never complained again.”

- Henry Hill, Goodfellas


164 posted on 09/10/2014 7:16:12 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: Kaslin

Well, I guess he was just trying to be transparent. /S


165 posted on 09/10/2014 7:32:17 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: txrangerette

Nothing will come of it, nothing ever does, even though both Holder and Cummings should be behind bars for this. I don’t know who I’m more angry at, the corrupt democrats or the spineless pubies who let this slide. There should be immediate calls for Holder’s resignation at the very least (which should have already happened for any number of previous scandals), followed swiftly by investigations of both. Where are they? The only reason for not acting swiftly on this is if there is fear of skeletons in the pubies closet being unearthed, or if the whole damn system is just rigged.


166 posted on 09/10/2014 9:11:30 AM PDT by messierhunter
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To: txrangerette

All we ever get from the stupid party is “We are deeply troubled”. They are not going to say or do anything since they believe the wind is on their back for the 2014 election. THE GOP HAS NO PRINCPLES OTHER THAN WINNING THE NEXT ELECTION - THEY STAND FOR NOTHING. That is precisely why I dropped my GOP registration and went to “I”


167 posted on 09/10/2014 9:29:25 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Kaslin

I hope he has been arrested.


169 posted on 09/10/2014 9:40:43 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: dontBSme
So - are the Republicans going to do something about it or just blow more smoke?

Rhetorical question, right?

170 posted on 09/10/2014 9:43:57 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Kaslin; GeronL
TRANSPARENCY #SMIDGEN
171 posted on 09/10/2014 9:49:02 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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To: Kaslin; Nachum
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.

Same thing that happened during the Clinton hearings when Democrats blamed Kenneth Starr for internal leaks by the Clintons.

172 posted on 09/10/2014 9:57:04 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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To: Chickensoup

You mean Holder arresting his own aide? Now that is funny


173 posted on 09/10/2014 10:19:31 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

You mean Holder arresting his own aide? Now that is funny

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No I mean another branch stepping in to stop the corruption.


174 posted on 09/10/2014 12:07:26 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: 1Old Pro

Yup


175 posted on 09/10/2014 4:13:19 PM PDT by dontBSme
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To: Kaslin

Democrats are morons.


176 posted on 09/10/2014 6:15:02 PM PDT by Fred CHB
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ...

I’m sure this will be heavily covered by the objective Fourth Estate.


177 posted on 09/10/2014 7:31:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: dontBSme
So - are the Republicans going to do something about it or just blow more smoke?

Well, Republicans called their friends at the New York Times and Washington Post and sure nuff - both promised front page stories and lots of 'outrage'. Yep... and I've got a bridge to sell... cheap.

178 posted on 09/10/2014 7:40:39 PM PDT by GOPJ ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: dontBSme

>>>So - are the Republicans going to do something about it or just blow more smoke?<<<

Reminds me of the line from the The Outlaw Josie Wales,
“Are you going to pull those Pistols or whistle Dixie?”

There is a whole lot of whistling going on in the GOP.


179 posted on 09/10/2014 7:53:29 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: SunkenCiv

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZruHfeUcNys


180 posted on 09/10/2014 8:58:37 PM PDT by Catechuman
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