Saturday, October 1, 2011

Friday night document dumps: Learn to follow the news on Saturday

Hot Air  "When a White House dumps documents late on a Friday, it’s not because they aren’t newsworthy.  It’s usually because they’re embarrassing, or potentially incriminating.  Yesterday we got an almost perfect example of the art when the Obama administration finally released selected documents on the Fast & Furious scandal that prove “extensive” communications between the ATF’s field office and the White House on the deadly project:" Related: Bombshell: DOJ Considering Elimination of ATF


 Sipsey Street Irregulars has this and the childrens book pictured:"The documents show extensive communications between then-ATF Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix office Bill Newell - who led Fast and Furious - and then-White House National Security Staffer Kevin O'Reilly. Emails indicate the two also spoke on the phone. Such detailed, direct communications between a local ATF manager in Phoenix and a White House national security staffer has raised interest among Congressional investigators looking into Fast and Furious." (Italics in the original.)

Kudos to CBS News for covering “Fast and Furious” while the rest of the MSM looks the other way  " That’s right: While NBC, ABC, and others have looked the other way, CBS News has spent the past few weeks doggedly reporting cover-ups tied to Fast and Furious. They’ve also been asking how far up the chain of command Fast and Furious goes? (In other words – who authorized this mess to begin with?)"
You can be sure NBC will not cover it. Remember NBC?  The network whose correspondents kept asking President Bush to apologize for this and that.

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