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CBS News Reporter Says White House Screamed, Swore at Her Over Fast and Furious
The Weekly Standard ^ | 10/4/11 | MARK HEMINGWAY

Posted on 10/04/2011 11:06:38 AM PDT by Nachum

The Fast and Furious scandal, in which the Justice Department knowingly gave Mexican criminal gangs thousands of guns, just keeps escalating. The latest development centers around whether or not Attorney General Eric Holder lied to Congress about having knowledge of the controversial gun trafficking operation. Recently released documents say Holder was briefed about the operation long before he told the Judiciary Committee he was first aware of what was going on. (Holder now claims he misunderstood the question was being asked.)

What's more, CBS News investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson -- who's been covering the scandal from the beginning -- says in an interview on the Laura Ingraham Show today that the White House and Justice Department have taken to screaming at her for reporting on the story. You can listen to the full interview below, but here are the key excerpts from Attkisson:

In between the yelling that I received from Justice Department yesterday, the spokeswoman--who would not put anything in writing, I was asking for her explanation so there would be clarity and no confusion later over what had been said, she wouldn't put anything in writing--so we talked on the phone and she said things such as the question Holder answered was different than the one he asked. But he phrased it, he said very explicitly, 'I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.'

(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abuseofpress; alfrankenhandler; attkisson; banglist; bhofascism; cbs; corruption; cussingwhitehouse; democrats; ericschultz; fastandfurious; gunrunner; gunwalker; holder; impeach; liberalfascism; news; obama; reporter; schultz; sharylattkisson; struckanerve
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

You got it. It is just a busy day for these stories.:)

Besides, I am going to start selling Nachumlist popcorn to munch on while the show is going on....

Maybe Cheesy Poofs too-


21 posted on 10/04/2011 11:17:26 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Attkisson is a black belt in TaeKwonDo.


22 posted on 10/04/2011 11:18:01 AM PDT by Crawdad
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To: Nachum

When did the building become sentient?


23 posted on 10/04/2011 11:18:09 AM PDT by WayneS (Comments now include 25% MORE sarcasm for NO additional charge!)
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To: roaddog727
I think this whole fiasco is going to require cases of beer........

Yes! Perhaps more than one! Definitely looks like a case study!!!

CA....

24 posted on 10/04/2011 11:18:14 AM PDT by Chances Are (Seems I've found that silly grin again....)
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To: vette6387; MetaThought; 60Gunner; XHogPilot; FreedomPoster; Josephat; Prince of Space; ...
Gunwalker. Still rolling ping.


JUST DO IT!

25 posted on 10/04/2011 11:18:27 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: Nachum

Is there a popcorn ETF??? We’d be sure to make money..


26 posted on 10/04/2011 11:19:23 AM PDT by SueRae (I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)
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To: Nachum

Maybe See-BS will see the light.


27 posted on 10/04/2011 11:20:30 AM PDT by ZULU (DUMP Obama in 2012)
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To: Nachum

Haha! I love a good, red-blooded Capitalist! ;-)


28 posted on 10/04/2011 11:20:58 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: LucyT

FYI


29 posted on 10/04/2011 11:21:04 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: Nachum
Seems this is huge. I would think this would be the topic of its own posting:

Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, adde that months before Holder testified -- on Jan. 31 -- he came to Grassley's office, where Grassley gave him a letter detailing the investigation of Fast and Furious.

"If he read my letter, he knew on January 31," Grassley told Fox News. "He probably actually knew about it way back in the middle of last year or earlier.

30 posted on 10/04/2011 11:21:14 AM PDT by DManA
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To: Nachum

Quick! Someone photoshopper take a Scream movie poster and put Obama and his administration in it!


31 posted on 10/04/2011 11:21:39 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Nachum

Looks like the White House wasn’t ready for CBS to engage in a random act of journalism.

Frankly, I’m a little concerned that CBS is taking the lead on this story. It gives CBS too much power.


32 posted on 10/04/2011 11:22:15 AM PDT by kidd
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To: Nachum

Boy, this sounds like we now have teenagers running the WH and the DOJ...screaming at someone who ask a question...if this is true...these teenagers need to grounded until 1/2013.


33 posted on 10/04/2011 11:22:37 AM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 Woe unto those who say they are Judahites and are not, but are of the syna GOG ue of Satan.)
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To: reagandemocrat

little Eric slithers about in dubious circles....

Previously, Schultz handled press for Al Franken’s 2008 Senate campaign and was National Press Secretary for the 2008 presidential bid of Sen. John Edwards (D-NC).


34 posted on 10/04/2011 11:22:39 AM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: roaddog727

Obama Launches Twitter War on GOP

“I think this whole fiasco is going to require cases of beer........”

I think we someone start the “Popcorn and Beer Party”. (The PBP)

Who’s making the run to Costco for a case of Blue Moon?


35 posted on 10/04/2011 11:23:01 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Perdogg

she started as a beat reporter for WTVT/Fox Ch. 13 in Tampa over twenty years ago


36 posted on 10/04/2011 11:23:17 AM PDT by representativerepublic (...loose lips, sink ships)
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To: dead

Mine makes noises........


37 posted on 10/04/2011 11:23:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (Furthermore, I think Obama must be impeached....................)
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To: Chances Are

“...looks like a case study!!!”

good one!


38 posted on 10/04/2011 11:23:43 AM PDT by roaddog727 (It's the Constitution, Stupid!)
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To: Nachum
I just had a thought of Jayna Davis.
39 posted on 10/04/2011 11:23:46 AM PDT by McGruff (Vetting - The process of examination and evaluation of a candidate's record.)
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To: Nachum
[Laura: Who was the person? Who was the person at Justice screaming?] Eric Schultz. Oh, the person screaming was [DOJ spokeswoman] Tracy Schmaler, she was yelling not screaming. And the person who screamed at me was Eric Schultz at the White House."
40 posted on 10/04/2011 11:23:53 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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