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

Blowin' smoke is (sadly) what they do best.

Rush summed it up today in answer to a caller:

"...So the Republicans are not pushing back. They're not standing for anything different. They're not proposing alternatives. They're not engaged in anything that would change the status quo. They're simply relying on this dissatisfaction to cause people to change who they vote for. But that, sadly, isn't going to mean that people have changed their minds. I've learned that way too many times. In the 1994 elections where the Republicans took the House, it really wasn't because people changed their minds. They just decided to change their vote..."

101 posted on 09/09/2014 5:09:18 PM PDT by CDB
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To: Kaslin

the good Lord works in mysterious ways at times...


102 posted on 09/09/2014 5:12:28 PM PDT by rolling_stone (1984)
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To: Red Steel

I’ve said before: God Bless Speed Dial. It’s been the undoing of countless dunderheads. Ain’t that techy stuff mahvellous? You have to question the guy’s ability to successfully use a flush terlet and wouldn’t it be neat to find out he was using his “hand Held.?” Maybe he already needs glasses?


103 posted on 09/09/2014 5:13:11 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: Kaslin
Kaslin:" Criminal is also one word"

True that !
But RICO implies 'organized crime snydicate' without happenstance.

104 posted on 09/09/2014 5:16:21 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Kaslin

Cummings ought to be immediately removed from the committee.


105 posted on 09/09/2014 5:17:01 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Kaslin

I would like to know the names of the “selected reporters,” i.e. Rat collaborators.


106 posted on 09/09/2014 5:34:52 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: maggief
I usually turn on the Today show and he has Morning Joe in the side room

And so their television never leaves NBC. Ooooookay.

107 posted on 09/09/2014 5:42:02 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("Compromise" means you've already decided you lost.)
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To: NormsRevenge

LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Laugh of the day!


108 posted on 09/09/2014 5:42:38 PM PDT by pollywog ( " O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: Kaslin

lol


109 posted on 09/09/2014 5:48:02 PM PDT by Dante3
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bookmark


110 posted on 09/09/2014 5:52:33 PM PDT by freds6girlies (many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first. Mt. 19:30. R.I.P. G & J)
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To: Whenifhow

It’s not. It’s James Risen. Two different people.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-administration-should-not-press-reporter-james-risen-to-reveal-a-source/2014/08/21/8dfeb868-28a3-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html


111 posted on 09/09/2014 5:59:07 PM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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To: Kaslin

Former aide to chuckie? Ha! Double loser!


112 posted on 09/09/2014 6:10:03 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Kaslin

I predict that a lot of irrecoverable hard drive crashes are imminent.


113 posted on 09/09/2014 6:12:26 PM PDT by Ham Hock ( i)
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To: Kaslin

Bump


114 posted on 09/09/2014 6:13:30 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: rdcbn
If Holder does not produce them, Issa has a very strong, valid justification to subpoena them.

Predicting another hard drive crash in 3 .. 2 .. 1 ..

115 posted on 09/09/2014 6:22:58 PM PDT by mellow velo
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To: Sgt_Schultze
The names of the cooperating democrat reporters should be made public.

I'd like the home addresses of these lame F***S.

Traitors, the whole lot!

116 posted on 09/09/2014 6:24:59 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: william clark
Nah, no independent counsel needed here. Not at all. Not even a smidgen.

The government is Ken McElroy...

117 posted on 09/09/2014 6:29:00 PM PDT by kiryandil (making the jests that some FReepers aren't allowed to...)
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To: thesharkboy

It’s also a television series based on a novel of the same name.


118 posted on 09/09/2014 6:30:51 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: Kaslin

I don’t think anything will come of it. Holder has his race to protect him, and I haven’t even thought of his boss yet.


119 posted on 09/09/2014 6:39:04 PM PDT by wastedyears (Aldnoah.Zero - Best new anime of 2014.)
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To: Henry Hnyellar

It’s not. It’s James Risen. Two different people.

**********
Thanks - I thought it might be spelled incorrectly.


120 posted on 09/09/2014 6:40:50 PM PDT by Whenifhow
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