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Many of the GOP talking points against Elizabeth Warren and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau she's been ramping up come from the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal.

In an editorial, titled "More Mortgage Mischief: Elizabeth Warren revs up her Consumer Financial Protection Bureau," the piece accuses Warren's agency of extorting mortgage servicers: "The bureau itself is trying to extend its reach by extorting billions of dollars from private mortgage servicers, regulating their business by fiat, and stalling a U.S. housing market recovery." In the same editorial, the writer takes a swipe at Warren for unfairly punishing banks: "White House special assistant Elizabeth Warren [has] spotted a political opening to smack the banks one more time and dole out $20 billion to potential voters in 2012."

The CFPB, and Warren by extension, are accused of having and wielding unfettered, unaccountable power by Republicans, as we saw in Wednesday's hearing in the House Financial Services Committee. It wouldn't be the first time the GOP found their talking points in the WSJ. And in this case, they're probably also coming from Wall Street. HuffPo's Zach Carter reports that a source tells him the editorials are coming from a former Goldman Sachs banker, Mary Kissel, who is "readying another piece critical of Warren and the new consumer agency."

Like most major newspapers, the Journal does not disclose the authors of its editorials. Kissel recently appeared on the John Batchelor radio show as a representative of the Journal's editorial board do discuss Warren, and repeated the main arguments used in the editorials. The editorials paint both Warren and the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as an immensely powerful, unaccountable organization. The nascent agency is assuming the consumer protection duties currently exercised by regulators at the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The author, Mary Kissel, worked for Goldman between 1999 and 2002 as a fixed income research and capital markets specialist. Kissel is listed on the Journal's website as a member of the editorial staff and her bio includes her time at Goldman Sachs and notes that she worked for the company in both New York and London. On Wednesday, , providing 34 pages of written answers while submitting to two-and-a-half hours of aggressive questioning from congressional Republicans, who deployed talking points similar to those used in the recent Journal editorials. "There has definitely been an uptick in attacks on her and on the agency over the past few weeks, it's hard to imagine it hasn't been well-coordinated by somebody," said a source close to Warren. "The smear campaign by The Wall Street Journal's editorial board this week includes the most unfactual and outrageous hit pieces on her yet. If it's true that the author of the editorials and Goldman Sachs coordinated on them, they should both be exposed and called to account."

Not only do the talking points the Republicans are using come from the WSJ, and by extension apparently Goldman, the policy action they call for does as well. From an editorial Thursday titled "President Warren's Empire," they advocate that "Congress kill the agency entirely. But at the very least Congress should remove it from the Fed, make it part of the Treasury and subject it to annual appropriations." Which is precisely what the GOP House is trying to do.