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He was told by the Justice Department to go access the public information on the Internet. Mr. Gohmert was specific to the specific data, which he states the Department of Justice had already provided to people convicted of supporting terrorism. Gohmert says, “They’re terrorists, we’ve given them the documents, the Justice Department has, and my information is that they’ve now been put on disks and sent to Illinois, so we know they are easily provided; just not to members of Congress.” Rep Gohmert describes how in the response, seven months from the date of his letter he was given a...

The Justice Department moved Friday to shield Attorney General Eric Holder from prosecution after the House voted to hold him in contempt of Congress. The contempt vote technically opens the door for the House to call on the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia to bring the case against Holder before a grand jury. But because U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen works for Holder and because President Obama has already asserted executive privilege over the documents in question, it was expected Holder's Justice Department would not take that step. Deputy Attorney General James Cole confirmed in a letter to House...