I may be wrong, but I think there is a different kind of word parsing that went on. I believe Holder said he did not know of anyone who wanted to PROSECUTE members of the press.
He didn’t. He was INVESTIGATING a reporter. His out is that his warrant declared the reporter as an “unindicted co-conspirator”; he wasn’t indicted, so he was not being prosecuted, just investigated.
So ... Holder didn’t lie, he just misled.
Same as Obama, when asked if anyone in the White House knew of the IRS investigations, replied that he personally just found out about it from the press reports. He did not admit that his chief of staff and attorney knew; he just misdirected.
[”...... First, kill all the lawyers...”]
Actually, I saw Obama asked when he learned about the IRS tar getting of conservatives, but he answered by telling when he allegedly learned of the IG’s report. So he answered a different question than what he was asked.