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discntnt_irny_srcsm

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Mon May 20, 2013, 03:10 PM May 2013

Credibility; case in point

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/20/dennis-burke_n_3307680.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department's inspector general says the U.S. Attorney in Arizona violated department policy by providing Fox News with information apparently aimed at undercutting the credibility of a federal agent who helped reveal the botched arms-trafficking probe called Operation Fast and Furious.

The IG says there was substantial evidence in the 2011 incident that then-U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke's motive for disclosing a memo by federal agent John Dodson was retaliation. In testimony to a House committee just two weeks earlier, Dodson had raised serious concerns about Operation Fast and Furious.


Sometimes it's said that gun control isn't about guns, it's about control. The politics of gun control isn't always about control, sometimes it's about damage control or maybe revenge.

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