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.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

I’d like to know more about the writer. Besides the fact that he’s a brilliant writer, he must have had someone on the inside.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

I’d like to know more about the writer. Besides the fact that he’s a brilliant writer, he must have had someone on the inside.

[txhurl]

Once you (even accidentally) have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow. Holder can speed up his planned retirement and avoid the fallout.

[SkyDancer]

Nothing to see here. Staff member did it on his own. Will be fired and disappear.

[Starstruck]

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.”

He done got smidgenated.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Oh .... Issa’s staff.

Thought there fer a minute that the Justice Department and the State Dept and all of Valerie Jarritt’s minions were calling ISIS for guidance on the IRS scandal.

(Then again, ISIS’s staff would give the Justice Dept better advice about how to deal with Obama’s ABCNNBCBS press corpse than Issa’s staff would ...

[The_Media_never_lie]

Where did the damn word spin come from? Spin = Lie!

[Chode]

livin in a gangster paradise

[Taxman]

Just one more reason to hate and despise LIEberals!

[Signalman]

“Once you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow. “

One of my favorites. Chuck Colson had a sign with this phrase sitting on his desk in the White House.

Another one I like:

“When they start to feel the heat, they begin to see the light”.

I think it was Senator Everett Dirksen (R) who coined this phrase.

[boycott]

The demos really are a spin off of the Nazis.

[william clark]

Nah, no independent counsel needed here. Not at all. Not even a smidgen.

[NormsRevenge]

Hello HELLOOO. ElIjah?? That you?

Hey Man, we need you to go off the deep end for us..

Elijah?? ELijah??

Hellooooo

[Kaslin]

It sure would have

[tennmountainman]

By accident? The way Issa has run his committee I would not rule it out.

[Kaslin]

The rats don’t care if it is or not

[Kaslin]

Probably

[NormsRevenge]

ISIS ? IRS?? Oh Man, maybe Obama is dyslexic? He hit the ring speed dial. lapdog Media instead of uhhh ..

developing

[Iron Munro]

Another self-loathing liberal Rocket Scientist.

[Kaslin]

Ditto here