take us through what happened. going back to november, the press secretary for darrell issa s oversight committee, kurt b bardella had been working with mark liebovich for his book. he ll look at the hill, reporters, lobbyists. darrell issa found he had permission to do this but the committee did not know that he was actually giving other reporters e-mails. as you mentioned, a little chin music, brush back from the gray lady, they reported that politico back in 09 at the beginning of the obama administration had filed a freedom of information request asking for correspondence between reporters and particular agencies, this was after the administration complained that another request was too narrow. we re like, fine, we ll ask for everything. turned out it didn t yield a
his reputation by firing john gi gilliano. wall street journal, former goldman sachs and procter & gamble employee has been accused of inside trading. that is a quick look at the papers. now time for politico. let s go to the chief white house correspondent for politico, mike al within a look at the playbook. hi, mike. good morning, willie. help us through this darrell issa story. it s a smackdown. they are having a smackdown with the times. it s politico and new york times. issa fired his chief spokesman for sharing e-mails with other journalists to a new york times reporter, mark liebovich.
obama administration. hasn t scored anything yet as jake sherman and hogan say in our story. so far the only politician that darrell issa has taken down a notch is himself. john heilemann, you ve written one of these behind the scenes book, on your way to writing another one. what did you think as you read this story about issa and the e-mails? it s quite extraordinary. my first thought was congratulations to mark liebovich for being able to convince darrell issa s press person to give him these e-mails. that s the kind of things a lot of reporters would like to get their hands on. where politico is right in having written about this, most reporters feel there s no explicit covenants. they feel their communication with the press secretary are not, in a legal sense, there s the confidence there. they were feel as though they were being betrayed if that