Justice IG criticizes former U.S. attorney for leak to Fox in ‘Fast and Furious’ scandal
Source: Washington Post
The Justice Department inspector general said Monday that the former U.S. attorney in Phoenix retaliated against the main whistleblower in a botched federal gun operation by leaking information to a television producer that was meant to harm the whistleblowers credibility.
Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz determined that former U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke violated Justice Department policy by giving a Fox News producer a memo about John Dodson, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives special agent who had testified before Congress about the failed gun operation known as Fast and Furious.
There was substantial evidence that Burkes motive for disclosing the memorandum was to retaliate against Special Agent Dodson, who two weeks earlier had testified before a Congressional committee regarding his concerns about Operation Fast and Furious, Horowitz wrote in his 21-page report.
Horowitz found that Burkes misconduct was particularly egregious because of his effort to undermine the credibility of Dodsons disclosures to Congress about the failures in Fast and Furious.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-ig-criticizes-former-us-attorney-for-leak-to-fox-in-fast-and-furious-scandal/2013/05/20/2ffb23c8-c166-11e2-bfdb-3886a561c1ff_story.html
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)He needs to go down as well as Fake news! Besides wanting to take total control over America the RWers are doing their best to distract (which isn't hard to do) their misinformed base re: impeach!
brett_jv
(1,245 posts)Just a coincidence that the implication of this story is, ONCE AGAIN, that someone from the Obama administration has 'retaliated' against their 'political enemies'. For like the fourth time in the last week.
Someone is REALLY out to take Obama down right now. Wonder what he did to piss them off? Or what are they trying to pressure him into? Starting a war w/Iran, perhaps?
WaPo is playing right into the scheme by the looks of things. Not good ...
Who gave Burke his job, anyway?
alp227
(32,052 posts)leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)it's like this irs scandal. none of those groups were required at all to deal with the irs. there's an app for that so all these groups volunteer to go through this .these groups with obvious flagable names flood the irs office with 501(c)(4) requests. i smell choerography
there were 3 people for 3000 501c4 requests