Posted on 05/30/2013 6:13:51 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Eric Holder to media: I get it
By: Dylan Byers May 30, 2013 08:29 PM EDT
Attorney General Eric Holder expressed concern on Thursday about how the Department of Justice has handled recent media investigations at an off-the-record meeting with leading representatives of the press, according to those who were present.
At the session, Holder and Deputy Attorney General James Cole expressed a willingness to revise the guidelines for such investigations, journalists present at the get-together told POLITICO.
But Holder stopped short of offering any concrete changes to the guidelines. Instead, the Attorney General sought to assure the journalists that he and the DOJ were trying to seek a balance between the demands of national security and the free flow of information, and sought suggestions from the journalists on how those changes might be achieved.
“[Holder and Cole] said they are reaching out to editors and counsels for news organizations about how to strike what they called ‘the balance’ between protecting the flow of information and journalists’ ability to do our jobs and what they described as national security damage,” said POLITICO editor-in-chief John Harris, who was present at the meeting.
“The guidelines require a balance between law enforcement and freedom of the press, and we all argued that the balance was out of kilter, with the national security and law enforcement interests basically overwhelming the public’s right to get information,” one journalist at the meeting said. “The language concerning ‘aiding and abetting’ comes out of the Privacy Act, and they discussed trying to revise that language so that reporters don’t need to be defined as co-conspirators in order to execute search warrants.”
The five journalists at the meeting were.....
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Now get out.
The Folks at Politico should remember to swallow while they are down there on their knees in front of him...
If he “gets it” then he should resign and hire himself a good lawyer. Maybe he can do a plea bargain.
We want you to roll over on your boss.
Wasn't John Harris of Politico the only one there?
And Politico's Dylan Byers writes it up, "journalist there".
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Attendees:
Harris;
Martin Baron, the executive editor of The Washington Post;
Gerald Seib, the Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau chief;
Jane Mayer, The New Yorker staff writer;
Jim Warren, the Washington bureau chief for The New York Daily News.
After you trash the constitution, abuse the citizens, lie about it, and then get caught lying, you don't say "my bad" and continue on as if everything is okay now.
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He gets it: 25 years in Club Fed
Well I hope he does get it, and without the possibility of parole.
Holder and company are setting up a red herring argument this is some kind of misunderstanding between DOJ and news orgs. the issue goes straight to the heart of the Constitution, the First Amendment, and is nothing that he has authority to negotiate about.
You did not get all of it yet.
“Get what?”
He gets the fact that he is black, therefore incapable of doing anything that would get him fired or loose his most generous pension.
Only 5 people showed up?
Congressman Gowdy: "You know, Mr. Holder, we had an attorney general who told this nation it was a nation of cowards. Now, that same attorney general, has lied, obstructed, intimidated, threatened all because he is a coward. He is too cowardly to tell the truth and stand up to the consequences. It is not the nation which is cowardly. It is the attorney general who has hidden behind the justice department for the last 25 years bullying anyone who dares tell the truth about him. What a feckless coward!"
You do if your pigment is a certain color.
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