And The Foolishness Continues... Part 1

You know if President Obama thought he was going to breeze through his second term without the homemade controversies, he should have thought again....I'm old enough to remember when in the early 70's..The Justice Department under Nixon and the nearly dead J.Edgar Hoover was accused of and guilty of spying on left wing and liberal movemants such as The Black Panther Party, The Weather Underground, The Anti war Movemant, the Women's movemant , The Civil Rights movemant and anybody who dared criticize President Nixon and his polices....They had the old enemies list... The Associated Press said then that they were being targeted by the Nixon White house..The more things change...The more things stay the same..

Fast Forward to 2013 and the Tea Party is saying that the Obama Administration is targeting them...Why? They need a good laugh?? Whatever....The Associated Press is claiming that the Obama Justice department is or has been spying on them....

Yesterday Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. fielded questions about the seizure of telephone records from reporters and editors at The Associated Press, which apparently came in connection with an investigation of leaks inside the executive branch.


Attorney General Holder said that the leak in question — the revelation by The A.P. of a foiled terrorist plot by Al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen a year ago — was among the two or three most serious leaks he had seen since the 1970s. “It put the American people at risk,” he said, without elaborating.

Attorney General Eric  Holder said that he had recused himself last year from the leak investigation and therefore had not made the decision to seek sweeping subpoenas for two months of call records for 20 telephone lines used by The A.P. and its journalists. He said he decided to turn over supervision of leak inquiries to his deputy, James M. Cole, “to make sure that this investigation was seen as independent” after F.B.I. agents interviewed him about leaks in June 2012.

Attorney General Eric  Holder said he was confident that his subordinates had sought the subpoenas in accord with Justice Department regulations. Members of Congress and press advocates have expressed concern about the subpoenas, revealed on Monday by The A.P., as a dangerously broad incursion into the ability of the news media to operate without government scrutiny and a violation of press freedom.

Eric Holder declined to say whether he had also recused himself from a separate investigation of unauthorized disclosures to The New York Times about American cyberattacks on Iran’s nuclear program.
The leak about the Yemen plot is being investigated by the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, Ronald C. Machen Jr., and the disclosures about the cyberattacks on Iran are being examined by the United States attorney for Maryland, Rod J. Rosenstein.
The White House deflected questions during its own press briefing Tuesday. The press secretary, Jay Carney, said he could not comment on the Justice Department’s actions amid the continuing investigation.


But wait!  There is more...Tune in tomorrow!

(To Be Continued....)