TARGETED: The Justice Department tried to rein in award-winning television journalist Sharyl Attkisson after she reported critically on the Fast and Furious gun scandal
[From article]
Judicial Watch has slowly been prying Fast and Furious documents out of the desperate grip of the Obama administration. The Department of Justice has now produced around 40,000 pages of documents–a tiny amount–which Judicial Watch has posted on its web site. So far, the most explosive document to emerge is an email thread between Tracy Schmaler, who headed Eric Holder’s Office of Public Affairs, and White House Deputy Press Sectary Eric Schultz.
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The context of the emails is concern about news reports that put Eric Holder at the center of the Fast and Furious scandal. In the first email, at 7:46, Schmaler says that there were no Fast and Furious stories from the NY Times, the Associated Press, Reuters, the Washington Post, NBC or Bloomberg. But there is one person out of step: Sharyl Attkisson. Schmaler writes:
I’m also calling Sharryl’s editor and reaching out to Schieffer. She’s out of control.
Which is highly revealing: the Obama administration expects reporters to be under control. As, of course, they generally are, like the Times, the Post, AP, etc. Schultz replies:
Good. Her piece was really bad for AG.
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BOMBSHELL: ATTORNEY GENERAL TARGETED ATTKISSON [UPDATED]
November 20, 2014
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FIGHTING BACK: Attkisson spills the beans in a new book about how the government impedes the work of reporters
[From article]
The Department of Justice's top communications official plotted to squash a reporter who aggressively covered the agency's ill-fated Operation Fast and Furious gun scandal in 2011, previously secret emails show.
The emails, between the DOJ's then-communications chief Tracy Schmaler and White House press flack Eric Schultz, are a rare look inside the Obama administration's press control machine.
They were released Thursday while the nation was preoccupied with President Barack Obama's immigration policy announcement, as the result of a long-languishing Freedom Of Information Act lawsuit filed by the center-right watchdog group Judicial Watch.
In one message, Schmaler told Schultz that CBS journalist Sharyl Attkisson needed to be reined in, writing that she was 'calling Sharryl's [sic] editor and reaching out to Scheiffer. She's out of control.'
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Attkisson, who left CBS a year ago over concerns that the network was reflexively killing stories that were critical of the administration, told MailOnline that the federal government's backroom plotting was in line with what she experienced previously.
'This is just the tip of the iceberg. ... Now people have a black and white email from the perpetrators to see for themselves what I've long known,' she said.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2844524/Emails-Obama-administration-targeted-reporter-coverage-Operation-Fast-Furious-scandal.html
Emails show Obama administration targeted reporter over her coverage of 'Operation Fast and Furious' scandal
Journalist Sharyl Attkisson was an attack dog while at CBS, following the 'Fast and Furious' gun scandal that dogged the Justice Department
Email released as part of a Freedom Of Information Act lawsuit shows DOJ communications chief saying she would pressure network higher-ups to rein her in
'She's out of control,' wrote then-Justice flack Tracy Schmaler, accusing her of lodging 'a bulls**t accusation' about the gun-'walking' operation
Email conversation was with White House strategist Eric Schultz, who was later promoted to the job of principal deputy press secretary
By David Martosko, US Political Editor for MailOnline
Published: 14:13 EST, 21 November 2014 | Updated: 15:45 EST, 21 November 2014
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