[Colonel_Flagg]

Holder assured Kirk that “there is no intention to do anything of that nature — that is, to spy on Members of Congress or to spy on the Supreme Court.”

This way when it's inevitably unveiled that exactly this event happened, Holder can claim it wasn't 'intentional'.

[Cyropaedia]

Yep.

Look how he testified that he had never been in involved with the potential prosecution of journalists; - then it turns out that he personally signed the warrant for James Rosen.