BREAKING: A special thank you to Anchored in Christ Jesus for this BN Headline! --- WOW! The Lord Jesus is exposing these things because the time is at hand. A senior communications aide to Attorney General Eric Holder seemingly called House oversight committee chairman Darrell Issas 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 Cummings 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 Departments 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.”
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15:10:04 +0000
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