If this doesn't prove that Holder and the DoJ are entirely in the tank for Obama and the democrat party than nothing will. Holder is a POS and he needs to be investigated, fired, and sent to jail.

Quote: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.

Issa aides – who had placed the call on speakerphone – were “caught off guard by the unusual nature of the call and the odd request” and asked Fallon to “e-mail the material for evaluation.”

“At this point,” Fallon “abruptly placed the call on hold for approximately three minutes.” When Fallon returned to the call, “he was audibly shaken. He immediately stated that there was a 'change in plans' and that there would be no effort” by DOJ to release the material early.

Fallon “proceeded to pitch the idea that the Department and the Committee should 'help one another' while simultaneously saying that 'you need to say what you need to say.'”

In the letter, Issa told Holder the phone call suggests ongoing coordination between DOJ aides and Cummings' staff to undermine oversight committee investigations.

Fallon's “efforts to prejudice the Committee's oversight work demands examination,” Issa wrote.

Fallon, however, said in a written statement that nothing untoward occurred.

“There is nothing inappropriate about department staff having conversations with both the majority and minority staff as they prepare responses to formal inquiries. That includes conversations between the spokespeople for the Department and the committee,” Fallon said.

Other than confirming he made the phone call in question, Fallon did not respond to any of the details of what took place during the call.

The letter referred to a “subsequent explanation” from Fallon that “he simply called to improve the Office of Public Affairs' working relationship with the Committee” but said the explanation “is inconsistent with statements and requests he made before he placed the call on hold.”

“It strains credulity to believe that the Department would seek to begin to improve relations via a telephone call between two individuals who had never spoken to each other before at 5:01pm on a Friday afternoon at the end of a District Work Period in the waning days of the 113th Congress,” Issa wrote.

Issa said he is “disturbed” by the “apparently longstanding collaboration between the Obama administration and Ranking Member Cummings' staff to obfuscate and prejudice the Committee's work through under-the-table coordination.”

At the outset of the 112th Congress, when Republicans had just taken control of the House, Democrats forced former Rep. Edolphus Towns to step down as ranking member for fear that Issa would run roughshod over him. Since then, Cummings is widely considered to have done an effective job pushing back against Issa-led investigations.

In many cases, documents provided to congressional committees by the White House and administration are preemptively leaked to the media as they are being released to Congress. Called the “document dump,” the practise frequently occurs on Friday afternoons to help mitigate the political damage from the news contained in the documents.

Issa Letter to Eric Holder About Brian Fallon










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Not a smidgen.

There's someone else who will need a pardon......

HOLLY F^CK. Dept. of Injustice. They must think this crap is funny, rubbing Issa' nose in it.

Nixon stepped down for less...

I would have never thought the administration would want to try to put a positive spin on something right-wing extremist radicals are all up in arms about.

Not a smidgen

Issa is a bafoon. I bet he's making it up.

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Obama has never made an honest dollar in his life. Community organizer since he was right out of college.

that's dead to rights. I wonder if the plot is too complicated for low information types to follow, especially given the fact that most of the MSM won't run the story.

(09-09-2014 09:41 PM)Ole Blue Wrote:  I would have never thought the administration would want to try to put a positive spin on something right-wing extremist radicals are all up in arms about.

Who are they? Can you point to a couple of these rwers?

Name a couple names, let's see if it stands up to examination.

(09-09-2014 10:42 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  Issa is a bafoon. I bet he's making it up.

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Okay. How much?


And what, pray tell, Mr. Teacher man, is a "bafoon"? Lol.

The state of our current edumakational system is embarrassing.

(09-09-2014 10:55 PM)EagleX Wrote:  that's dead to rights. I wonder if the plot is too complicated for low information types to follow, especially given the fact that most of the MSM won't run the story.

Agreed.. this ALMOST sounds like the smoking gun against Cummings (who IMO, has been the one who's been behind all of this.).

Let's see how much media coverage this gets... I'm wagering , not a sniff?

I do think Breitbart is wrong in this line:

Quote:Since then, Cummings is widely considered to have done an effective job pushing back against Issa-led investigations.

Cummings has been embarrassed pretty much every time he's opened his mouth in this investigation... and is the one that needs to be forced to step down from his positoin. (and I could care less if it's a Dem or Rep that is appointed to replace him.)

(09-09-2014 11:59 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  

(09-09-2014 09:41 PM)Ole Blue Wrote:  I would have never thought the administration would want to try to put a positive spin on something right-wing extremist radicals are all up in arms about.

Who are they? Can you point to a couple of these rwers?

Name a couple names, let's see if it stands up to examination.

Lefter hate scrutiny. Don't hold your breath for a response.

(09-09-2014 10:42 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  Issa is a bafoon. I bet he's making it up.

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PRICELESS

Of all the stuff that gets posted on this board, this post should concern everyone. We already know the IRS is working for Obama and against the GOP and now we find out that the DoJ isn't just a little biased, but absolutly in the tank for him. Is this Holder's way of thanking Obama for bailing him out on F&F or just extreme partisanship? I say both.

How ANY liberal/leftist on this board could possibly defend this or try and spin it is beyond me. They are simply proving that their heads are so deep in the sand they're beyond all help. Nothing to see here. All is well.

(09-09-2014 10:42 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  Issa is a bafoon. I bet he's making it up.

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I sure hope you don't teach spelling or grammar. Is a bafoon a cross between a buffoon and a baboon?

Hint: If there's a little red squiggly line under a word you've typed then it's misspelled, you can right click it to select the proper spelling.

I pray for the future of our children who are in the hands of indoctrinators like yourself.

Obama and Holder truly believe that they should be allowed to do anything they want, regardless of the law, and
to them that is just business as usual. Most corrupt Administration ever.