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HOLDER TO FACE PRESS...
« on: May 29, 2013, 03:24:04 pm »
http://www.politico.com/playbook/

HOLDER TO MEET WITH BUREAU CHIEFS on changes to guidelines for media subpoenas -- JASON FURMAN to chair CEA, adding juice to office -- FACING PROBES AND TOUGH RACE, BACHMANN folds in pre-dawn video

 

By MIKE ALLEN | 05/29/13 8:48 AM EDT

BULLETIN: The Justice Department began contacting D.C. bureau chiefs of major print and broadcast news organizations yesterday to set up a meeting with Attorney General Eric Holder to discuss changes to the department’s guidelines for subpoenas to news organizations. A source close to Holder said that in retrospect, he regrets the breadth and wording of the investigation involving Fox’s James Rosen (which Holder approved), and recognizes that the subpoena for AP records (Holder had recused himself from that case) took in more phone lines than necessary.

“The A.G. realizes that things might have gotten a little out of balance, and he wants to make changes to be sure the rules fully account for the balance between the First Amendment and law enforcement,” the source said. The first media meeting will be held at main Justice, likely later this week. A later meeting will include First Amendment advocates.

A Justice Department official tells Playbook: “Attorney General Eric Holder will hold meetings with several Washington bureau chiefs of national news organizations in the next two days as part of the review of existing Justice Department guidelines governing investigations that involve reporters. This review, which was announced by President Obama last Thursday, is consistent with the Attorney General’s long standing belief that protecting and defending the First Amendment is essential to our democracy. These meetings will begin a series of discussions that will continue to take place over the coming weeks. During these sessions, the Attorney General will engage with a diverse and representative group of news media organizations, including print, wires, radio, television, online media and news and trade associations. Further discussions will include news media executives and general counsels as well as government experts in intelligence and investigative agencies.”

Holder also has been doing bipartisan outreach to the Hill on media-shield legislation. Obama had announced in his counterterrorism speech last week that Holder “has agreed to review existing Department of Justice guidelines governing investigations that involve reporters, and he’ll convene a group of media organizations to hear their concerns as part of that review. And I’ve directed the Attorney General to report back to me by July 12th.”

A Justice official, re the AP records: “Because the investigation is ongoing and involves classified information, the Department is limited in what it can share. However, we have made clear that the subpoenas were sought only after a months-long investigation which included over 500 interviews and a review of tens of thousands of pages of documents. The subpoenas sought telephone toll records for specific telephone numbers associated with the reporters whose reports contained the leaked material. Toll records include only the sort of information the public commonly sees on their telephone bills, and do not include any information about the content of any conversations. The subpoenas covered a period of less than two months. Finally, the Department did not monitor, or attempt to obtain the content of, any telephone conversations. The focus here was on finding the leaker, and was not targeting AP or its ability to gather or report the news.”

--MIKA BRZEZINSKI, on “Morning Joe”: “A source close to Holder tells ‘Morning Joe’ that changes are coming with regards to leak investigations. We have also learned that the Justice Department will be holding meetings with journalists and news organizations over the next few weeks to go over their concerns.”

--DANIEL KLAIDMAN, on The Daily Beast: “[F]or Attorney General Eric Holder, the gravity of the situation didn’t fully sink in until … he read the Post’s front-page story [disclosing the extent of the Rosen probe], sitting at his kitchen table. Quoting from the affidavit, the story detailed how agents had tracked Rosen’s movements in and out of the State Department, perused his private emails, and traced the timing of his calls to the State Department security adviser suspected of leaking to him. Then the story, quoting the stark, clinical language of the affidavit, described Rosen as ‘at the very least ... an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator’ in the crime. Holder knew that Justice would be besieged by the twin leak probes; but, according to aides, he was also beginning to feel a creeping sense of personal remorse.” http://thebea.st/132z03Y
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Re: HOLDER TO FACE PRESS...
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2013, 04:26:04 pm »
Their is no excuse for this administration's bad behavior, no matter how the media tries to shield them. I reckon the press conference will be soft, and if not, the answers will be.

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Re: HOLDER TO FACE PRESS...
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2013, 04:46:24 pm »
MSNBC Reporter:  Mr. Holder, you're a really, really handsome man. The radical domestic terrorist tea party types think you've done something wrong, but you haven't, have you?
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Re: HOLDER TO FACE PRESS...
« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2013, 04:55:47 pm »
MSNBC Reporter:  Mr. Holder, you're a really, really handsome man. The radical domestic terrorist tea party types think you've done something wrong, but you haven't, have you?

That's about it! Reporters usually answer their own questions within their questions.

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Re: HOLDER TO FACE PRESS...
« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2013, 04:57:42 pm »
NYT's reporter....Mr Holder do you think the mean old Repub's asking for your resignation is racist?
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Re: HOLDER TO FACE PRESS...
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2013, 05:55:54 pm »
This is not facing the press.. it is a charm offensive.
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« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2013, 06:42:18 pm »
HOLDER TO FACE PRESS..........reporters who have had their questions vetted by the Administration.
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Re: HOLDER TO FACE PRESS...
« Reply #7 on: May 29, 2013, 07:39:46 pm »
This is not facing the press.. it is a charm offensive.

Exactly right.  THAT is the way he will survive.