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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: thesharkboy

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.


21 posted on 09/09/2014 2:46:48 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: thesharkboy

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.


22 posted on 09/09/2014 2:46:48 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: jazusamo

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.


23 posted on 09/09/2014 2:47:00 PM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: Kaslin

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


24 posted on 09/09/2014 2:48:18 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: Kaslin
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.

25 posted on 09/09/2014 2:49:14 PM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: Thud; Kaslin; SunkenCiv; Nachum

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 ...


26 posted on 09/09/2014 2:51:01 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Thud

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


27 posted on 09/09/2014 2:51:43 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: Kaslin
livin in a gangster paradise
28 posted on 09/09/2014 2:53:30 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Kaslin

Just one more reason to hate and despise LIEberals!


29 posted on 09/09/2014 2:53:41 PM PDT by Taxman (I am mad as Hell and I am not going to take it any more!)
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To: txhurl

“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.


30 posted on 09/09/2014 2:55:09 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Kaslin

The demos really are a spin off of the Nazis.


31 posted on 09/09/2014 2:55:32 PM PDT by boycott
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To: Kaslin

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


32 posted on 09/09/2014 2:55:46 PM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: Kaslin

Hello HELLOOO. ElIjah?? That you?

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

Elijah?? ELijah??

Hellooooo


33 posted on 09/09/2014 2:56:18 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: Cyman

It sure would have


34 posted on 09/09/2014 2:56:49 PM 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

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


35 posted on 09/09/2014 2:57:04 PM PDT by tennmountainman (True conservatives don't like being rained on by their own party!)
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To: Jewbacca

The rats don’t care if it is or not


36 posted on 09/09/2014 2:57:50 PM 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: PghBaldy

Probably


37 posted on 09/09/2014 2:58:59 PM 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: Robert A. Cook, PE

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

developing


38 posted on 09/09/2014 2:59:21 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: Kaslin

Another self-loathing liberal Rocket Scientist.


39 posted on 09/09/2014 2:59:22 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("If you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Taxman

Ditto here


40 posted on 09/09/2014 3:00:06 PM 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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