'Absolutely insane'! Docs show WH, DOJ targeted 'out of control' Sharyl Attkisson

Un. Real.

Bombshell: Email Proves that White House, DOJ Targeted Reporter Sharyl Attkisson http://t.co/okUZUrgdo7 #tcot

— PJ Media (@PJMedia_com) November 20, 2014

Fast and Furious: DOJ, White House targeted Sharyl Attkisson. http://t.co/inWxYwTjJg Let's see what else is lurking in that FOIA doc dump.

— John Hayward (@Doc_0) November 20, 2014

From the PJ Tatler:

Judicial Watch reports that the Obama administration has turned over about 42,000 pages of documents related to the Fast and Furious scandal. The administration was forced to turn the documents over to Judicial Watch in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. Judicial Watch is posting them on its web site. The administration turned them over on November 18, 2014.

One of the documents provides smoking gun proof that the Obama White House and the Eric Holder Justice Department colluded to get CBS News to block reporter Sharyl Attkisson. Attkisson was one of the few mainstream media reporters who paid any attention to the deadly gun-running scandal.

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 [she] intended to call CBS news anchor Bob Schieffer to get the network to stop Attkisson.

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Fun email from Justice Department public affairs on @SharylAttkisson that @JudicialWatch just dug up pic.twitter.com/9EsrQotTM9

— CJ Ciaramella (@cjciaramella) November 20, 2014

Obama admin targeted Attkisson and used National Journal to target Issa over Fast and Furious. http://t.co/XmoNVQ88nf pic.twitter.com/JP78OlO5KC

— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) November 20, 2014

Kinda casts this cutesty exchange between Schmaler and HuffPo justice reporter Ryan J. Reilly in a whole new light, no?

https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/535560865664479232

Sure is!

@taschmaler you would RT that.

— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) October 31, 2014

@ryanjreilly it met the criteria of being both newsworthy and entertaining.

— tracy schmaler (@taschmaler) October 31, 2014

Oh, my.

And there’s this, too:

https://twitter.com/jfgroves/status/535559626943918080

Why, that’d be NPR’s DOJ reporter Carrie Johnson!

https://twitter.com/OrwellForks/status/535560318538481665

https://twitter.com/OrwellForks/status/535562742732959744

https://twitter.com/OrwellForks/status/535564405841608704

We’re guessing there are still a lot more rocks to turn over.

You folks in the mainstream media would have been totally cool with Richard Nixon doing something like this, right? http://t.co/inWxYwTjJg

— John Hayward (@Doc_0) November 20, 2014

https://twitter.com/OrwellForks/status/535555477661556736

https://twitter.com/OrwellForks/status/535556371887185920

This is absolutely insane and something needs to be done. H/t @NoahCRothman http://t.co/nZq0wAp3Rd

— Ashe Schow (@AsheSchow) November 20, 2014

https://twitter.com/OrwellForks/status/535561443677331456

Where it stops, nobody knows …

it wasn't @SharylAttkisson that was out of control

— texicalirose (@texicalirose) November 20, 2014

Not by a long shot.

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