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Fox News Is Attending The Controversial Eric Holder Meeting That Others Are Boycotting
Business Insider ^ | 5-30-2013 | Brett LoGiurato

Posted on 05/30/2013 6:39:25 AM PDT by blam

Fox News Is Attending The Controversial Eric Holder Meeting That Other Media Organizations Are Boycotting

Brett LoGiurato
May 30, 2013, 9:30 AM

A Fox News spokesperson told Business Insider that the network will attend an off-the-record meeting with Attorney General Eric Holder to discuss the Department of Justice's guidelines for handling leak investigations.

The meeting has been pushed back against by other news organizations because of its off-the-record nature.

CNN, the New York Times, the Associated Press, and the Huffington Post have all said they will not attend the meeting unless it is on the record. In addition to Fox News, the Washington Post and Politico are attending.

The Department of Justice came under scrutiny, in part, because of recent renewed attention to a leak investigation involving Fox News reporter James Rosen.

In an application for a search warrant, FBI agent Reginald Reyes wrote that there was probable cause Rosen had violated the Espionage Act by soliciting classified information from Stephen J. Kim, a former State Department official. Reyes wrote that Rosen was an "aider and abettor and/or co-conspirator" in leaking the information.

Holder reportedly played a role in approving the search warrant.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


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KEYWORDS: ag; bhodoj; crimes; foxnews; holder; liberalmedia; offrecord; sellout
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To: Izzy Dunne

>> I wonder if they’re carrying a hidden tape recorder...

Wouldn’t THAT be cool? “Sure, Eric, off the record... promise...” (wink wink) (fingers crossed)

Then spill 100% of the details 24x7 for a week!


21 posted on 05/30/2013 7:02:12 AM PDT by Nervous Tick
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To: blam

Bret Bair just now said they are still deciding; will make decision soon.


22 posted on 05/30/2013 7:02:37 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: blam

Fox has always had integrity and superb reporting.....me thinks the others are protesting too much...maybe throwing the AG under the bus????


23 posted on 05/30/2013 7:04:33 AM PDT by yoe
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To: blam

If I were in charge of FOX News, I’d send a reporter there and bug him to record the meeting, and then play it in its entirety ON AIR. Screw Holder and his conditions. It is the same thing he would do.


24 posted on 05/30/2013 7:05:19 AM PDT by Gaffer
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Fox News Is Attending The Controversial Eric Holder Meeting Being Boycotted by CNN, the New York Times, the Associated Press, and the Huffington Post

Heheh---go for it Fox----love it. Betcha Holder wishes he could back out of this PR fiasco. All of the major media need to task their top investigative reporters to determine whether Holder:

(1) lied to the judge to get search warrants;

(2) lied to the Congress when he said he had nothing to do with it;

(3) falsified offical DOJ documents (incurs several felonies and could involve forgery);

(4) "pencil-whipped" official documents (signed off having no clear evidence of wrongdoing--incurs jailtime)

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DOJ/Ohaha's using the 1917 Espionage Act to nail journos --- poor overworked Valerie Jarrett burned the midnight oil to come up with that one (cackle).

REFERENCE The DOJ search warrant in the Rosen case cites Section 793(d) of Title 18 of the U.S. Code ...... a person lawfully in possession of secret govt-classified info who turns it over to someone not lawfully entitled to posses it has committed a crime (The source).....anyone who conspires to help the source do that has committed the same crime (The journo).

So why the brouhaha? B/c the Obummber crew has NEVER, EVER exhibited a modicum of interest in defending US ntl security from foreign domination ---- nor has it exhibited a concern for the life and liberties of Americans.

On the contrary----via "immigration reform" Ohaha is forcing on Americans entire primitive populations of creepy savages emanating from antediluvean Third World countries.

THIS IS RICH When the Nigerian jihadist butchered the Brit soldier, then defiantly gave an interview with blood-soaked hands, Ohaha okayed $50 million to his homeland---Kenya---as a sign of Ohaha's "tolerance and compassion.".

$50 mill to another jihadist hellhole means more stupid futile nation-building ---- to subsidize living standards for dumbos still living in huts---w/ no water, electricity, adequate shelter and food.

But forget these "amenities" --- your tax dollars will build Kenyan "madrassas" to train more of these jihadist zealots to butcher innocent people.

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REFERENCE--Frontpage Magazine--FR posted

Last Friday, NBC News reported that the DOJ promised to review its policies regarding the seizure of information from reporters, even as it acknowledged that the search warrant issued for Rosen’s material was approved “at the highest levels” of the Department, including “discussions” with Holder.

This is not the first time Holder has “misled” Congress. Documents obtained in 2012 by Judicial Watch, pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, revealed that top political appointees at the DOJ were intimately involved in the decision to drop the voter intimidation lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party (NBPP).

That information conflicts with Holder’s testimony before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies on March 1, 2011. “The decisions made in the New Black Panther Party case were made by career attorneys in the department. And beyond that, you know, if we’re going to look at the record, let’s look at it in its totality,” Holder contended.

The DOJ had initially refused to turn over the documents, contending they didn’t show “any political interference whatsoever.”

Judge Reggie B. Walton in Washington, D.C. District Court disagreed. Allowing the release of the documents on July 23, 2012, he declared that they “reveal that political appointees within DOJ were conferring about the status and resolution of the New Black Panther Party case in the days preceding the DOJ’s dismissal of claims in that case.

25 posted on 05/30/2013 7:06:31 AM PDT by Liz
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To: blam

Is this going to be a meeting where Holder explains himself, or is it a chance for the invisible arm of the Obama administration to let the media know what kind of horrible things could happen to them or their families if they start trying to report the truth?


26 posted on 05/30/2013 7:08:35 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: blam

Just announced they are currently in conference and discussing the issue. Announcement will be made within the hour

CNN has pulled out


27 posted on 05/30/2013 7:09:54 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

My thoughts exactly. Unfortunately, this article is incorrect. Bret Baier just said that Fox News has not yet made a decision. He expects one within the hour.


29 posted on 05/30/2013 7:13:02 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: BuckeyeTexan
Since James Rosen is their reporter, they should send Rosen!
30 posted on 05/30/2013 7:13:36 AM PDT by j_tull (The smart money these days is in brass and lead.)
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To: BuckeyeTexan
Since James Rosen is their reporter, they should send Rosen!
31 posted on 05/30/2013 7:13:36 AM PDT by j_tull (The smart money these days is in brass and lead.)
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To: j_tull

Beautiful idea. . .absolutely b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l!


32 posted on 05/30/2013 7:21:22 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Exactly right, and by attending, FOX will be a magnet for avid viewership for quite awhile thereafter, as they find little ways to introduce into their news stories exactly what was said “off the record”.


33 posted on 05/30/2013 7:27:00 AM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: blam

I hope Fox news doesn’t believe in off-the-record pressers.

The Bret Bair Show should begin with... “Today, Fox News attended an off-the-record news conference with Eric Holder of the DOJ, and here is what he said...”


34 posted on 05/30/2013 7:27:14 AM PDT by moovova
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To: blam

Holder has already recused himself from this scandal, wouldn’t this meeting un-recuse him and be used against him when he appears before the next committee hearings?

I’m no attorney but I did stay at Vito’s One Hour Motel last night.


35 posted on 05/30/2013 7:27:49 AM PDT by RetSignman ("...a Republic if you can keep it")
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To: stickywillie; mickie; flaglady47; Bob Ireland; seekthetruth; surfer; Dan Nunn; Bizzy Bugz; ...
"Obama/Holder are trying to yank our chains again....."

Right on.

This "secret" meeting has got the media all excited in an almost erotic way. They're titillated over the attention, the exclusiveness and the very furtiveness of it all. Every reporter would love to be in on the meeting and I'm sure those whose bosses have nixed the idea are unhappy as heck.

Under the circumstances of DOJ and IRS rot, this "secret meeting" is unbecoming and corruptive of a free government, a free media, and a free society. It's an UN-TRANSPARENT, sordid mess, a macabre puppet show presented by cynical, manipulative liars and thugs.....and will be attended, with few exceptions, by groveling pigs, pride-less lackeys, amoral scribblers, sensation seekers and ideological sycophants in the degenerate main stream media membership.

In actuality, the "secret meeting" is being cast before the swine because Obama/Holder know quite well that the journalistas are lusting for any teeny bit of inside information tossed their way that will HELP THEM DEFEND the Capo-of-all-Capos and his Justice Dept. consiglieri.

Leni

36 posted on 05/30/2013 7:32:38 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Say Hey Trey!..........)
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To: moovova

Ref off the record: A media trick is to say, “According to an unnamed senior official. . .” or “A source close to the investigations says. . .” and the ol “Speaking with the understanding his name wouldn’t be used, a senior administration official said. . .”

Fox can do that and really stick Holder.


37 posted on 05/30/2013 7:34:52 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: Pearls Before Swine
You think Holder's crew won't search for that? Or press wiretap charges if they do?

Look - this is MY fantasy and I can have it any way *-I-* want to...

;-)

38 posted on 05/30/2013 7:38:55 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: blam

If I were Fox I would go...

When everyone else is not there and there you are - the news agency that Holder specifically targeted (and bad-mouthed)..... it’s just too funny to pass that opportunity up.

“Off the record” means that FOX “could” go there and lecture that a$%^hole to his face.....

And, yes, I would record it. If Holder complained I would do an expose on how a lawless Government creates a lawless citizenry.


39 posted on 05/30/2013 7:39:26 AM PDT by Noamie
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To: BuckeyeTexan

I think James Rosen should be the reporter that Fox News sends.


40 posted on 05/30/2013 7:40:17 AM PDT by murron (Proud Mom of a Marine Vet)
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