Harry Reid, top Dems back Holder, as spokesmen run to Buzzfeed to answer Daily Caller question
Published: 12:21 AM 03/15/2012

By Matthew Boyle - The Daily Caller
Daily Caller Reporter


WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 29: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) answers reporters' questions after the weekly Senate Democratic policy luncheon at the U.S. Captiol November 29, 2011 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Through his spokesperson Adam Jentleson, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat, expressed his confidence Wednesday evening in Attorney General Eric Holder, in the wake of Operation Fast and Furious.

Reid’s statement supporting Holder comes on the heels of statements from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Democratic National Committee chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz supporting the attorney general.

Rather than answer a press request from The Daily Caller, however, Jentleson sent an unsolicited email to BuzzFeed.com editor Ben Smith.

Jentleson did not immediately respond to a request asking why he chose to provide his answer to TheDC’s question to another publication, but it may have been related to DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse’s decision to leak TheDC’s emailed questions on the same subject to BuzzFeed and the Huffington Post.

Woodhouse ignored TheDC’s press request for several days before TheDC gave him a deadline of 10 a.m. Thursday for an answer. Rather than answering, Woodhouse leaked the emails to other journalists.

The DNC accused TheDC of “blackmail” for saying it would report on Wasserman Schultz’s failure to support Holder if Woodhouse ignored the deadline and did not answer the question.

The first media outlet to have reported the DNC’s political attacks on TheDC was BuzzFeed.

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