GOP Wants Holder to Resign Over Security Leaks Investigation That They Wanted Holder to Do
By David Weigel | Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2013, at 2:00 PM
So, in May 2012 the pressure on the Obama administration to conduct some investigation of national security leaks became impossible to resist. Republicans wanted a special prosecutor to be empowered—something that isn't really done anymore, post-Ken Starr.
Instead, this happened on June 8, 2012:
Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday appointed two U.S. Attorneys to head an investigation into a recent series of national security leaks.
Soon, on June 12, 2012:
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, made the call for Holder's resignation during a Senate hearing late Tuesday morning. It came in the context of GOP concerns about Holder's decision to appoint two lawyers from within his department to handle the politically sensitive leak probe -- as well as concerns about Fast and Furious.
And we fast-forward to the results of that investigation.
May 13, 2012:
Federal investigators secretly seized two months of phone records for reporters and editors of The Associated Press in what the news organization said Monday was a “serious interference with A.P.’s constitutional rights to gather and report the news.” ... The Justice Department referred questions about the subpoena to a spokesman for Ronald C. Machen Jr., the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, who was assigned by Mr. Holder last June to lead one of two major leak investigations.
more:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/05/14/gop_wants_holder_to_resign_over_security_leaks_investigation_that_they_wanted.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content
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Dave Weigel is a Republican and voted for Gingrich in the Republican primary
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