How culpable is Attorney General Eric Holder for his
department’s mining of phone calls made by Associated Press
journalists? That was the question on everyone’s mind on Capitol
Hill yesterday, where members of both parties grilled Holder during
a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee.
Answers were not forthcoming. Taken at his word, the nation’s top lawyer has no idea what is going on in his department. (He responded to at least 57 different questions with some version of “I don’t know.”) Specifically, Holder claimed he had little knowledge of the investigation of the leak that led to the data mining because he had recused himself, albeit verbally, to Deputy Attorney General James Cole. Under questioning from Reps. Spencer Bachus (R-AL) and Tom Marino (R-PA), Holder admitted that there was no non-verbal record of the recusal. “Isn’t that sort of an unacceptable procedure?” asked Bachus.
http://spectator.org/archives/2013/05/16/house-judiciary-committee-gril
Answers were not forthcoming. Taken at his word, the nation’s top lawyer has no idea what is going on in his department. (He responded to at least 57 different questions with some version of “I don’t know.”) Specifically, Holder claimed he had little knowledge of the investigation of the leak that led to the data mining because he had recused himself, albeit verbally, to Deputy Attorney General James Cole. Under questioning from Reps. Spencer Bachus (R-AL) and Tom Marino (R-PA), Holder admitted that there was no non-verbal record of the recusal. “Isn’t that sort of an unacceptable procedure?” asked Bachus.
http://spectator.org/archives/2013/05/16/house-judiciary-committee-gril
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