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- Holder Schedules Press Conference On Press Freedoms, Demands It Be Off The Record
Nothing upholds Freedom of the Press like an off the record Press Conference, huh? 'Everything you report can and will be used against you.' -- Eric Holder From Hot Air: The news of a meeting between Holder and the bureau chiefs comes amid...
- Will Attorney General Eric Holder Be Allowed To Plead The Fifth When He Interrogates Himself?
Ok, shit's getting really scary now. Holder has been ordered to investigate himself. Obama Orders DOJ Review of Leak Investigations President Obama is a little uneasy with the way journalists have been dragged into the Justice Department’s aggressive...
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Even Liberals Call for Holder's Ouster Radio talk-show host Bill Press, former chairman of the California Democratic Party, has become at least the second heavyweight liberal commentator to call for the ouster of Attorney General Eric Holder. Writing...
- White House Propaganda Minister Jay Carney Asked About Doj Seizing Ap Phone Records: “no Comment” – Update: Releases Statement Saying Wh Had “no Knowledge” Of Doj Seizing Ap Records
Jay Carney - Gravitas Manifest From TPM: White House press secretary Jay Carney on Monday had no comment when asked about an Associated Press report revealing that the Department of Justice secretly obtained two months of telephone records...
- Justice Department Secretly Collected Ap Phone Records
Justice subpoenaed AP phone records, news service says (CNN) -- The Justice Department secretly collected two months of telephone records for reporters and editors at The Associated Press, the news service disclosed Monday in an outraged letter...
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WaPo After Their Off-The-Record Meeting With Holder: The Justice Department Has Allowed Us To Say "Holder Will Protect Journalist Rights"
... and I won't come in your mouth
As The Washington Examiner‘s own Susan Ferrechio reports Fridaymost news organizations boycotted on principle Attorney General Eric Holder’s offer to join a press conference Thursday in which he discussed the Obama’s White House various efforts to monitor, intimidate and harass journalists. Holder’s condition was that the meeting be “off the record,” meaning none of the reporters would be allowed to report what was said at the meeting.
Among those who did attend was the Washington Post. Today’s Post has an account of the meeting — sort of. That is, they have a story about what the Justice Department allowed them to say about its efforts to protect press freedom. The result is just beyond parody (All emphasis is added):
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. pledged Thursday to take concrete steps to address concerns that the Justice Department has overreached in its leak investigations and said officials would seek procedural and possibly legislative changes to protect journalists’ First Amendment rights.
Holder’s commitment came at a private meeting with news executives after criticism that the Justice Department had infringed on the news media in several high-profile leak investigations. Participants said he told them officials would revise guidelines for issuing subpoenas to obtain reporters’ phone records.
The 90-minute meeting was attended by a small group of journalists after several news organizations objected to the Justice Department’s insistence that it be held off the record. The participants, however, reached an agreement with the Justice Department under which they could describe what occurred during the meeting in general terms. The Justice Department is expected to meet with other news organizations and media lawyers in coming days.
Keep reading…
- Holder Schedules Press Conference On Press Freedoms, Demands It Be Off The Record
Nothing upholds Freedom of the Press like an off the record Press Conference, huh? 'Everything you report can and will be used against you.' -- Eric Holder From Hot Air: The news of a meeting between Holder and the bureau chiefs comes amid...
- Will Attorney General Eric Holder Be Allowed To Plead The Fifth When He Interrogates Himself?
Ok, shit's getting really scary now. Holder has been ordered to investigate himself. Obama Orders DOJ Review of Leak Investigations President Obama is a little uneasy with the way journalists have been dragged into the Justice Department’s aggressive...
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Even Liberals Call for Holder's Ouster Radio talk-show host Bill Press, former chairman of the California Democratic Party, has become at least the second heavyweight liberal commentator to call for the ouster of Attorney General Eric Holder. Writing...
- White House Propaganda Minister Jay Carney Asked About Doj Seizing Ap Phone Records: “no Comment” – Update: Releases Statement Saying Wh Had “no Knowledge” Of Doj Seizing Ap Records
Jay Carney - Gravitas Manifest From TPM: White House press secretary Jay Carney on Monday had no comment when asked about an Associated Press report revealing that the Department of Justice secretly obtained two months of telephone records...
- Justice Department Secretly Collected Ap Phone Records
Justice subpoenaed AP phone records, news service says (CNN) -- The Justice Department secretly collected two months of telephone records for reporters and editors at The Associated Press, the news service disclosed Monday in an outraged letter...