DOJ Aide Caught "Red-handed" in IRS Scandal

This is like something out of a movie (my emphasis added):

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The administration official calling House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa’s (R-Calif.) office last week had an odd request. Could the Justice Department get some help leaking information about the IRS’s scrutiny of conservative groups? asked Brian Fallon, a top spokesman for Attorney General Eric Holder. Apparently thinking he had reached the office of Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings (Md.), Fallon said the department wanted congressional staffers to get documents to selected reporters so that officials could comment on them “before the majority” did. After Issa spokesman Frederick Hill replied that Oversight Committee staffers would have to examine those documents first, the line went silent, and Fallon placed the call on hold for three minutes. When he returned to the line, Fallon was “audibly shaken,” according to an account of the conversation that Issa recounts in a letter sent to Holder.

If the corruption wasn't so offensive, the incompetence would actually be kind of humorous.