Justice IG criticizes former U.S. attorney for leak to Fox in ‘Fast and Furious’ scandal

[alp227]

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 whistleblower’s 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 Burke’s 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 Burke’s misconduct was “particularly egregious” because of his effort to undermine the credibility of Dodson’s 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]

1. And believe me Issa knew this as well

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]

2. You mean to tell me that all this kind of stuff is coming out *right now* by pure ACCIDENT?

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]

3. Burke is an Obama nominee. N/t

[leftyohiolib]

4. how many bush appointees does potus still have working for him?

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