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Sources: Eric Holder scolded Capitol Hill intern for taking notes during lecture
The Daily Caller ^ | 7/25/2012 | Matthew Boyle

Posted on 07/25/2012 3:23:41 PM PDT by markomalley

Sources have confirmed to The Daily Caller that Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday berated an intern from House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy’s office for taking notes during a lecture he gave on Capitol Hill.

According to one intern who was present, Holder had just started speaking when he noticed a male intern who was standing on the side of the packed room beginning to take notes with a pen and paper.

“Holder is talking and then he sees some kid taking notes,” the intern, who asked to remain anonymous to protect his boss, said in a phone interview. “He [Holder] asks, ‘Oh, why are you taking notes? Are you from the Washington Post?’”

“He [the intern Holder scolded] is like, ‘no,’” the intern who spoke with TheDC recalls.

“Then, he [Holder] is like, ‘what office do you work in?’” he continued. “And, the kid is like, ‘oh Kevin McCarthy.’”

He said, next, Holder responded, “’Oh, you’re one of those guys,’ kind of like jokingly but meaning he was a Republican.”

Holder’s remarks apparently had an effect on the room, the intern who spoke with TheDC said. ““Yeah, I was scared to take notes then,” he told TheDC. “No one else whipped out pens and paper to take notes.”

He said he thought Holder may have been “trying to be funny,” but it was pretty clear to him that Holder scared everyone there.

“I looked around and there was not one other person [taking notes] after that,” the intern said. “I was upset because I forgot my pen and paper, but after that I was like ‘thank God.’”

In the end, the scolded McCarthy intern may have had the last laugh.

After Holder gave his speech, he took questions. The first items up, according to TheDC’s source, were voter ID and prison issues.

“Then, the last question, he went to the kid he yelled at from McCarthy’s office and that kid asked about Fast and Furious,” he said.

Holder is in civil and criminal contempt of Congress for failing to comply with the congressional investigation into Operation Fast and Furious. Eight senators, 130 congressmen, two governors and Mitt Romney have all demanded Holder’s resignation over the gunrunning program.

Another source with direct knowledge of the situation that occurred in the room confirmed the details of the intern’s account for The Daily Caller. “Did the Attorney General of the United States of America scold an intern for taking notes at a lecture? Yes.”

Holder’s lecture was the latest installment in a program for Capitol Hill interns featuring different daily speakers throughout the summer months.

The intern lecture was packed, sources told TheDC and was standing room only, with a couple hundred people in attendance. The talk began at 11 a.m. and was held in room 325 of the Senate Russell Office Building.

It was not open to the general public or the press – only congressional interns were allowed. “They checked our IDs to make sure we were all interns,” the intern who spoke with TheDC said.

Holder spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler didn’t respond to TheDC’s request for comment and McCarthy’s office wouldn’t comment on the record.


TOPICS: Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: democrats; doj; holder; holdertruthfile
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1 posted on 07/25/2012 3:23:46 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Holder and his DOJ thugs.

2 posted on 07/25/2012 3:30:59 PM PDT by upchuck ("Definition of 'racist:' someone that is winning an argument with a liberal." ~ Peter Brimelow)
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To: markomalley

Do none of them have recorders on their cells? Duh.


3 posted on 07/25/2012 3:37:42 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: upchuck
I was like, "Y'know?"

And it was like, "Yeah"

And I mean, I was like, y'know, ascared and like that ... y'know ?

4 posted on 07/25/2012 3:42:44 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: markomalley

Scared of what?


5 posted on 07/25/2012 3:43:12 PM PDT by donna ("...gay couples raising kids. That's the American way..." -Mitt Romney)
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To: markomalley
What a pompous ass Holder is. When he asked the intern if he was taking notes, it's too bad the intern didn't say in return: "Yes I am. Do you want me to make a copy of them for you?"

Why would anyone feel intimated by this criminal?

6 posted on 07/25/2012 3:49:50 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: markomalley

Take all the notes you want, kid. It’s still a free country, even if the USAG wants to take your First Amendment rights away. Writing notes at a speech by a government official is a freedom of speech issue for the one writing the notes. Take Holder to court.


7 posted on 07/25/2012 3:55:17 PM PDT by Combat_Liberalism
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To: knarf

Remember English 101 “Diagramming Sentences”?

I couldn’t even begin to chart-out those 3 incoherent, idiot phrases...


8 posted on 07/25/2012 3:57:21 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (All libs and most dems think that life is just a sponge bath, with a happy ending.)
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To: markomalley
. “They checked our IDs to make sure we were all interns,”

Once again requiring ID's for the privilege to be in his presence.

But to vote....that would be racist.

9 posted on 07/25/2012 4:02:56 PM PDT by Kakaze (I want The Republic back !)
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To: knarf
Okay, here's what those 3 phrases diagram out to. Just drop the words anywhere on any line...


10 posted on 07/25/2012 4:03:55 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (All libs and most dems think that life is just a sponge bath, with a happy ending.)
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To: markomalley

Yes, General Holder. I am taking notes.

I expect to be taking notes at your impeachment trial as well.


11 posted on 07/25/2012 4:04:21 PM PDT by seowulf ("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
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To: upchuck
Anyone have a photo of The Eric and his staff assistants? There is this one stern-faced lady....reminds my of Sheila Jackson Lee in appearance.... what a look but always right there with her iPhone recording the utterings of The Eric.

Looking for the photos with names for reference.

12 posted on 07/25/2012 4:17:52 PM PDT by ptsal (E)
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To: markomalley

A lying murderous criminal not wanting his comments recorded.


13 posted on 07/25/2012 4:20:01 PM PDT by 2111USMC (Aim Small, Miss Small)
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To: markomalley
What kind of low-grade morons are they interning these days?

"He [Holder] was like . . ."

I thought they only interned the best and brightest, but I guess any yokel from trade school can intern.
14 posted on 07/25/2012 4:29:26 PM PDT by Sudetenland (Member of the BBB Club - Bye-Bye-Barry!!! President Barack "Down Low" Obama)
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To: La Lydia

Don’t they generally take all cell phones away from anyone that enters these talks with the administration? I thought that has been their protocol?


15 posted on 07/25/2012 4:30:33 PM PDT by jcsjcm (This country was built on exceptionalism and individualism. In God we Trust - Laus Deo)
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To: markomalley

The intern needs to grow a set.


16 posted on 07/25/2012 4:31:55 PM PDT by sauropod (You can elect your very own tyranny - Mark Levin)
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To: markomalley
Tell that bastard Holder to go to hell!

What an absolute ass.

17 posted on 07/25/2012 4:52:31 PM PDT by Northern Yankee (Where Liberty dwells, there is my Country. - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: 2111USMC

He’s gittin’ paranoid.


18 posted on 07/25/2012 5:10:11 PM PDT by donhunt (Certified and proud "Son of a Bitch".)
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To: knarf
like there were five times like when like was used when like none were required... like
19 posted on 07/25/2012 5:45:54 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: markomalley

Record the whole thing on a phone and post it on Youtube. Notes are SO 90’s.


20 posted on 07/25/2012 5:48:11 PM PDT by Libloather (The epitome of civility.)
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