Hah ... not a smidgen of corruption !
Posted on 09/09/2014 2:36:38 PM PDT by Kaslin
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Thirteen Techniques for Truth Suppression
How many others have they employed? Very nearly all.
All the detail don't immediately come back to me. I do recall it was a prosecutable crime - but I don't remember if anyone was held to account on it.
Comrade Schumer uses his staff like a KGB Commissar!
Wasn’t really an accident though? sometimes they just poke their thumb in our eye to let us know what they’re getting away with. Nothing will come of this.
PING!
Hah ... not a smidgen of corruption !
The Selected Reporters know who they are... they are, or well lol, were awaiting the documents.
Let’s guess who they might be. Because they are up for RICO charges.
Hint: the selected journolists have been and will be very silent or even absent from ‘reporting’.
Off the top of my head.... WH Correspondents from ABC NBC CBS MSNBC CNN?
I’ve got this sick feeling in the pit of my stomach that the rats were not the only party sending and receiving emails from the IRS in regards to the Tea Party. Hope I’m wrong, but their brazenness is telling me otherwise.
05/29/2013
Senate aide Brian Fallon to Justice Department
Meet the new boss: Brian Fallon will be a spokesman for AG Eric Holder. (Chip Somodevilla - GETTY IMAGES) Brian Fallon might have stayed busy as a spokesman for the notoriously press-eager Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), but he could find that his new job, handling media for Attorney General Eric Holder, is even more intense.
The longtime Schumer aide is moving to the Justice Department just as it is in the center of a controversy over investigations of journalists as part of government probes of leaks. Not that that’s anything new for Holder, who has faced intense scrutiny on a number of fronts, particularly over his department’s “Fast and Furious” gunwalking program.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/05/29/holder-to-get-new-spokesman-at-justice/
Brian Fallon, a longtime spokesman for Sen. Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.) and the Senate Democrats, has agreed to lead the Justice Department’s press operations, according to a person familiar with the matter. The position came open when Tracy Schmaler left the job in March.
Mr. Holder has said he will be reaching out to editors at major news organizations to discuss their concerns. Journalists protested after news emerged this month of searches of phone records of reporters and editors at the Associated Press, as well as searches of personal emails and phone records of a reporter at Fox News Channel. The two cases are unrelated but both involve an effort to ferret out those within the government who leaked intelligence secrets.
Mr. Holder has long faced criticism from the right on a number of fronts, including the botched Fast and Furious gun-smuggling investigation and his push to try some Guantanamo Bay terror detainees in federal court. The leak probes, however, have led to unusual criticism from some on the left.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/05/16/senate-spokesman-vs-thedc-video/#ixzz3CrRrkxze
Editor’s Note: Former Chuck Schumer spokesman Brian Fallon just landed a gig with The Daily Caller’s favorite department, the Department of Justice. To commemorate this great day, and all the fun times we’ve had with the DOJ, we’re digging a fun time we had with Brian out of TheDC Vault. Congrats, Bri Guy! And keep tapping our phones reading.
It’s no secret that reporters and Capitol Hill press secretaries don’t get along sometimes.
Case in point: The Daily Caller received a voicemail from an exhausted-sounding Senate spokesman last month who was a little, shall we say, displeased with the following headline:
“McCain fingers Schumer as media whore for ‘grandstanding’ on Ariz. immigration law“
“This is Brian Fallon at Chuck Schumer’s office,” the voice said. “I’m calling about the headline — I don’t give a crap about your story, but is ‘whore’ really a word that The Daily Caller uses in headlines on its website?”
Actually, yes.
“I don’t know if you were not responsible for the headline,” he told TheDC’s intrepid reporter, “But regardless, I suggest you take a look at how that looks on your website, and I would suggest maybe changing it.”
Just the tip of the iceberg. Liars lie about lying. Two days to 9/11 hello ...concentrate... Obarmer the disarmer z people people sheeeeez ¿
Seriously, does Issa drive you to drink or WHAT?? That guy is worthless. Oh and, I love how he starts out every interview on Fox with “thank you for covering this important story”....
Meaningless. There is NO leadership in the great US of A
Issa just did. In his letter he asked for all ex parte communications between Holders DOJ and Eliija Cummings staff on the oversight committee. This is a really big deal as the ex parte communications are unethical and probably illegal.
If Holder does not produce them, Issa has a very strong, valid justification to subpoena them.
This is a pretty big deal in a good way for Issa. The Democrats could not be more corrupt or malevolent in their actions, but thankfully they are just too stupid and incompetent to successfully execute a proper conspiracy.
Perhaps you could find someone to read the damn article for you....BEFORE you post such rubbish.
Judicial Watch and True the Vote specificly Catherine Engelbrecht and her Attorney are gonna have a field day with this
Don’t forget they already filed ethics charges against (S)cummings and have a court case in progress over their abuses.
Now the nexis between IRS and other fed. Agencies abusing that group and Catherine have been exposed. Along with (S)Cummings involvement. All running thru the dept. Of Injustice
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Spin the scandal? Thought the Justice Dept (sic) was supposed to investigate and prosecute if they found wrongdoing.
It’s funny that they call it “being caught red-handed,” when the hands are usually black. It’s like having a “Greed Thumb” is supposed to signify that you are a good gardener, when your thumb isn’t really green.
Two words: "banana republic"
CNN’s Jake Tapper had the perfect response when the spokesman for the Department of Justice claimed to speak up for press freedom on Wednesday night.
Brian Fallon tweeted in support of Huffington Post reporter Ryan J. Reilly, who was arrested Wednesday night for simply doing his job of covering the tensions in Ferguson, Missouri. Fallon called Reilly “gutsy” for his coverage of the protests and said the DOJ is “lucky” to have him.
The problem, as Tapper pointed out, is that Fallon is currently part of the administration threatening to jail another journalist, James Risen, for doing his job.
(snip)
Jake Tapper @jaketapper
.@brianefallon how do you distinguish between the “gutsy” reporters and the one the administration is threatening to put in jail?
11:27 PM - 13 Aug 2014
If the MSM don’t report it ...never happened!
Post of the thread. 0.1% of Americans will ever know about this.
Depressing.
As long as he follows through, not his strong point, some hope in America will be restored.
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