Attorney General Eric Holder says he played no direct role in the Justice Department’s secret review of Associated Press phone records but called it part of an investigation into what he termed a grave national security leak.
Holder said he had removed himself from the matter because of congressional testimony he had given and his dealings with the news media.
The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of AP reporters and editors.
Holder said federal prosecutors are looking into the matter.
“This was a very serious leak, a very grave leak” that “put the American people at risk,” Holder told reporters at a news conference Tuesday.
Holder has assigned Deputy Attorney General Jim Cole to handle the phone records case.
The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The AP in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a massive and unprecedented intrusion into how news organizations gather the news.
(AP)
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Holder, you’re starting to sound like a broken record! You never know anything! You’re never involved! Its never your responsibility! Why are you still witholding information on your gun running scheme, fast & furious? You are an unelected criminal that has American blood on your hands (Brian Terry)! Why isn’t Holder sitting in prison?! Why is this murderer allowed to take tax payer money & walk around as a free man?
Has he ever heard the term “The buck stops here”? I guess he learned from his commander in chief that it’s never your fault – there’s always someone else to shift the blame to.