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CBS News Falsely Claims to Be First Reporting Fast & Furious

By P.J. Gladnick | June 12, 2012 | 11:35

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Almost alone among the mainstream journalists, CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson has been reporting on the Fast & Furious scandal. For that she should be commended. However she wasn't the first to report on it. In fact much of her information was provided to her by David Codrea (photo), the Gun Rights Examiner at Examiner.com and citizen journalist Mike Vanderboegh of the Sipsey Street Irregulars blog. That is why it was so grating when Attkisson wrote this jarring sentence in a report about the House Oversight Committee scheduling a contempt vote against Attorney General Eric Holder:

The story was exposed nationally for the first time by CBS News in February 2011.

Issa's Gunwalker Subpoena a Virtual Non-Story; AP Furiously Spins False 'Bush Did It Too' Meme

By Tom Blumer | October 16, 2011 | 10:58

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On October 9, an unbylined Associated Press story reported that Congressmen Darrell Issa "could send subpoenas to the Obama administration as soon as this week over weapons lost amid the Mexican drug war." On Wednesday, October 12, Issa did just that.

Mike Vanderboegh's Sipsey Street Irregulars blog has a succinct summary (HT Ed Driscoll) of the establishment press's coverage of Issa's actions since the subpoenas' issuance: