Holder’s Office Was Pushing Hard to Silence Sharyl Attkisson

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We’ve still got fragments of the full thing, but we now have confirmation that Holder’s Justice Department people felt threatened by former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson’s investigation and attempted to silence her.

In an email dated October 4, 2011, Attorney General Holder’s top press aide, Tracy Schmaler, called Attkisson “out of control.” Schmaler told White House Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz that he intended to call CBS news anchor Bob Schieffer to get the network to stop Attkisson.

Schultz replied, “Good. Her piece was really bad for the AG.”

The AG would be Holder.

It’s interesting that DOJ people were trying to work through Bob Schieffer. It suggests that access was being traded for censorship.

DOJ was generating friendly stories through favored reporters while trying to shut down unfriendly ones.

I sent [National Journal's] Susan Davis your way. She’s writing on Issa/FandF and I said you could load her up on the leaks, etc.

So we have an arm of the government using the media to control the coverage of one of its own scandals.

  • mrs. spacely

    is the whole country dreaming that we are in slow mo and can’t move to get out of the way of the giant monster, or what?

  • Bamaguje

    For the most part, Obama has the sycophantic lamestream media on his side.
    Any journalist who doesn’t play along get’s harassed, as in the cases of former CBS reporter Sharyl Atkisson and Fox news reporter, James Rosen.

    It’s all part of the authoritarian dictatorship of the constitution flouting “pen and phone” tyrant.

  • http://www.stubbornthings.org NAHALKIDES

    Horrendous but not shocking – this is the snake that is the Left, with the shameless Obama as its head. The Schieffer angle is worth looking into – as bad as Leftist politicians are, Leftist media people are worse because they’re volunteering to be put in service of the state.

  • guyjones

    Because, in Obozo’s America, it’s “wrong” for an independent-minded journalist to refuse to march in lockstep with the rest of the media that lazily shills for Obozo’s agenda. It’s “wrong” to pen a piece that is critical of AG Holder. Those members of the proletariat who have the temerity to criticize Obozo, the Administration, or its apparatchiks, must be punished.