Posted on 06/09/2012 2:23:52 PM PDT by lbryce
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Friday assigned two United States attorneys to lead separate criminal investigations into recent disclosures to the news media of national security secrets, saying they were authorized to “follow all appropriate investigative leads within the executive and legislative branches of government.”
Their appointment followed calls in Congress this week for a crackdown on leaks after disclosures on topics including drone strikes and a computer virus attack against Iran’s nuclear program. Several of the revelations were published by The New York Times.
“The unauthorized disclosure of classified information can compromise the security of this country and all Americans, and it will not be tolerated,” Mr. Holder said in a statement. “The Justice Department takes seriously cases in which government employees and contractors entrusted with classified information are suspected of willfully disclosing such classified information to those not entitled to it, and we will do so in these cases as well.”
Several members of Congress from both parties this week expressed alarm about recent leaks, and some Republicans had called for the appointment of a special prosecutor with greater independence from day-to-day supervision by the Obama administration to investigate.
But Mr. Holder instead assigned two prosecutors — Ronald C. Machen, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, and Rod J. Rosenstein, his counterpart in Maryland — to take over direction of existing investigations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, elevating the stature of the cases but not giving them any special powers.
Earlier Friday, President Obama declared that the White House had not been behind the recent leaks and vowed to prosecute the people responsible for disclosing classified information if they could be identified.
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ROTFL! Funny stuff.
Ssssuuuuuuurrrreee he did. Wink-wink. Nudge-nudge.
Time for some hapless sap to get tossed under the bus and take the fall for Der Obamafuehrer.
How do the pinkos at the NYT print a headline like that with a straight face?
What Holder really means is track down evidence and destroy it.
The leaks came from (wait for it...)
The BUSH Administration!
Like turning two foxes loose in the hen house.
This nothing more than Obama investigating Obama. It is nothing but a total FARCE!!
The Holder Plumbing Co.
the real news is right before the last paragraph
“elevating the stature of the cases but not giving them any special powers.”
“follow all appropriate investigative leads within the executive and legislative branches of government.”
...and don’t come back until you’ve found a Tea-Partier!
Oh, btw Holder, hows that investigation of Fast & Furious going? Or, how about the voter intimidation, and threats to Zimmerman from the new black panthers?
We live in bizarro world...
5.56mm
CAN? This is likely one of the most damaging breaches of our national security in recent memory...
Hookers do anything for the right price.
“to those not entitled to it”
AH.... the phrase that covers his behind.
So, if I understand this.... Holder said “Look at ME, Look at Me !? “
Holder probably assigned two guys who have a hard time finding the zipper on the front of their pants!!
Holder needed to get something going on this before the outcry for a Special Prosecutor forces a real investigation.
To know that Eric Holder is heading an investigation into leaks from the Department of Justice is just about as comforting as it would be to learn, say, that the fox has been put in charge of guarding the proverbial henhouse...
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