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Kirk to Holder: Is DOJ spying on Congress? (& SCOTUS?)
Washington Examiner ^ | June 6 | Joel Gehrke

Posted on 06/06/2013 9:34:44 AM PDT by PghBaldy

“With all due respect, Senator, I don’t think this is an appropriate setting for me to discuss [this issue],” Holder replied during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing when Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., asked if the executive branch was conducting surveillance that would give “unique leverage” over lawmakers.

Kirk replied that “the correct answer would be no, we stayed within our lane, and we did not spy on Members of Congress.”

Holder assured Kirk that “there is no intention to do anything of that nature — that is, to spy on Members of Congress or to spy on the Supreme Court.”

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To: Lancey Howard

Maybe he knows something.


101 posted on 06/06/2013 11:14:10 AM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: clintonh8r

I hope you’re right.


102 posted on 06/06/2013 11:20:29 AM PDT by txmissy
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To: PghBaldy

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.....with all due bullcrap Senator.....

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103 posted on 06/06/2013 11:24:31 AM PDT by devolve
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To: lodi90

That’s where my frustration lies, too. I’m watching these hearings and see some strength (Gowdy mostly), but am not seeing any results. Just some hand-slapping and “we musdt never let this happen again” kind of thing. Maybe I’m too inpatient? I just don’t understand the purpose of all of these theatrics if the administration is just going to give all of them the bird anyway.


104 posted on 06/06/2013 11:25:33 AM PDT by txmissy
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To: TexasCajun

So the answer is “YES.”


105 posted on 06/06/2013 11:25:43 AM PDT by matt04
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To: soycd

His adopted kids....supposedly internet rumor has them here not legally.


106 posted on 06/06/2013 11:26:41 AM PDT by Lady Heron
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To: TexasCajun

Actually by refusing to say no, he was saying yes.

Yes, was his answer.


107 posted on 06/06/2013 11:28:04 AM PDT by DrewsMum
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To: PghBaldy

Whoops. That is from an old story during Bush years...


108 posted on 06/06/2013 11:28:37 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost

When Roberts wrote his opinion regarding obamacare, that was my exact reaction. Roberts has a strong history of sound constitution decisions. Therefore, I believed someone got to him about a personal issue that would be exposed.


109 posted on 06/06/2013 11:34:46 AM PDT by Son-Joshua (son-joshua)
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To: The Cajun

The weasel word here will be the one used by Kirk, spy. To spy can be very narrowly defined to permit Holder to say there was/is no spying. Yet surveillance, observation, listening will occur and will.do so behind the “that’s not spying” facade.


110 posted on 06/06/2013 11:46:22 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: PghBaldy
Holder assured Kirk that “there is no intention to do anything of that nature — that is, to spy on Members of Congress or to spy on the Supreme Court.”

This way when it's inevitably unveiled that exactly this event happened, Holder can claim it wasn't 'intentional'.

111 posted on 06/06/2013 11:48:44 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Blather. Reince. Repeat.)
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To: dirtboy

It wasn't their "intent" to "spy" on Congress, - they were merely engaging in the process of collecting "data" from a variety of sources.

Simple.

112 posted on 06/06/2013 12:04:27 PM PDT by Cyropaedia ("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
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To: PghBaldy

Anyone still in doubt whose side the Obama administration in on?

This beats the Gestapo, Stazi and NKVD hands down..

It is like a new description is required to describe filth that calls itself American and holds office and operates under the flag of the Left and the enemies within.


113 posted on 06/06/2013 12:07:57 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi --)
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To: PghBaldy

114 posted on 06/06/2013 12:11:11 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Colonel_Flagg
Yep.

Look how he testified that he had never been in involved with the potential prosecution of journalists; - then it turns out that he personally signed the warrant for James Rosen.

115 posted on 06/06/2013 12:12:46 PM PDT by Cyropaedia ("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
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To: DrewsMum
Well, That T.E.A Partier, Ted Cruz Is A Pain.


116 posted on 06/06/2013 12:14:20 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: TexasCajun

Liar...Liar...Pants on fire!


117 posted on 06/06/2013 12:16:42 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: PghBaldy
They have no intention to do anymore pissing in the wind ( at the moment...but give them time).

Better weasel words were never spoken.

118 posted on 06/06/2013 12:51:27 PM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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To: cookcounty; PghBaldy

Question..... would the NSA and CIA have different ultimate loyalties? Maybe its wishful thinking but I’m beginning to sense a titanic power struggle happening behind the scenes of this administration.... I pray there are some good people left in some of these agencies that can bring down these unholy tyrants before its too late.


119 posted on 06/06/2013 12:59:46 PM PDT by boxlunch (the fourth estate is the fifth column)
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To: PghBaldy

This administration acts like it can do whatever it wants and get away with it because the media will provide cover as it has with all the scandals so far. I pray that the day that cover ceases will arrive soon with the IRS scandals and these crooks will get what is coming to them.


120 posted on 06/06/2013 1:00:04 PM PDT by kevinm13 (Tim Geithner is a tax cheat. Manmade "Global Warming" is a HOAX!)
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