Brian Fallon, the top spokesman for attorney general Eric Holder, thought he was talking with the office of Democrat Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on Darrell Issa’s House Investigation Committee when he spilled the beans. Bernie Becker of The Hill recounts what Fallon revealed about the Department of Justice’s partisan effort to shape the probe of the IRS misconduct that led Lois Lerner to plead the Fifth Amendment: 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...(Read Full Post)