Posted on 05/16/2013 2:59:55 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — President Barack Obama continues to back Attorney General Eric Holder following the fallout over the Justice Department secretly obtaining two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press.
During a Rose Garden press conference alongside Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Thursday, the president stated that he has “complete confidence” in the job Holder is doing.
Obama defended the leak probes as necessary for national security and called for a balance with press freedom.
“Leaks related to national security can put people at risk,” Obama said, adding that “we still don’t know all the details of the case.”
Obama says it’s time to renew discussions about a federal shield law that would protect journalists and their employers from having to reveal sources.
Obama also waved off comparing the scandals of his administration to that of former President Richard Nixon.
On Wednesday, congressional Republicans and Democrats challenged Holder over the Justice Department’s handling of the investigation of national security leaks and its failure to talk to the AP before issuing subpoenas for the news service’s telephone records.
In exchanges that often turned testy, Holder defended the inquiry while pointing out that he had removed himself from any decision on subpoenas. The attorney general explained that he had been interviewed about what he knew of national security developments that prompted the probe.
The investigation follows congressional demands into whether Obama administration officials leaked secret information to the media last year to enhance the president’s national security credentials in an election year.
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“Uh, until I don’t. Which could be any day now.”
“Leaks related to national security can put people at risk”
WOW! I don’t think there is a more Captain Obvious moment here....
He knows where Holder’s bodies are buried.
Holder knows where his bodies are buried.
That, is Chicago TRUST.
Thus proving once again what a complete idiot he is!
Isn’t this what they usually say, right before the resignation?
In sports we call this the “dreaded vote of confidence” which usually means the coach is toast.
Obummer lies again regarding another liar.
Holder, so....if the entire electorate doesn’t have CONFIDENCE in their Attorney General, would a wise CEO keep him on board?
I’ve got complete confidence in Holder, too.
Complete confidence he cannot do his job!
Obama: Weiner/Holder 2016!
Holder’s done.
“I have complete confidence...” are the words said within a week of a “resignation to pursue more time with his family.”
Did the Captain of the RMS Titanic say that just before (cough)
Again, Obama answers a question nobody asked. Nobody asked if he has complete confidence in Holder.
Then, too....There's Marcy Park.
He’s dead, Jim.
Does nobody recall the confidence that Richard Nixon had in HIS Attorney General, John N. Mitchell?
Does anyone think that sort of confidence may have been, well, a little misplaced?
The cracks in Nixon’s defense developed as his support group in the Oval Office was taken out, one by one, by various strategies employed by the cabal that was out to “get Nixon”.
And one of the foot soldiers in that cabal was - Herself, the Cold and Joyless (known also by the pseudonym “Hillary Rodham Clinton”).
Schadenfreude is such a beastly emotion, and hubris is such an uncertain ally.
Of course you do, you dipstick! He's following your orders.
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