Obama: ‘I Have Complete Confidence In Eric Holder’
Source: TPM
TOM KLUDT 1:22 PM EDT, THURSDAY MAY 16, 2013
President Barack Obama on Thursday gave a firm vote of confidence to embattled Attorney General Eric Holder.
"I have complete confidence in Eric Holder as attorney general," Obama said at a joint afternoon press conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "He does his job with integrity and I expect he will continue to do so."
Holder has come under fire for the Department of Justice's subpoena of Associated Press phone records, with even some on the left calling for his sacking. But Obama defended the probe earlier in the press conference, emphasizing the need to get to the bottom of leaks. Earlier this week, Holder called the leak on a CIA operation in Yemen, the impetus for the seizure of the AP's phone records, one of the most serious in his career.
"You know, leaks related to national security can put people at risk," Obama said. "It can put men and women in uniform that I've sent into the battlefield at risk. They can put some of our intelligence officers who are in various dangerous situations that are easily compromised at risk."
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Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)We'll see.
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)political operatives from the 20% playing dirty tricks and are quite hypocritical if parts of those are from the left, being that they cried (and rightly so) about the leak against Valerie plame
and the smear against Joe Wilson and put them and many others in danger.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)bowens43
(16,064 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)And that battery going dead on you last week, Holders spies did that one!
appacom
(296 posts)that no other president in history has faced - white racist obstructionism. Also, stop calling the president of the United States of America "this guy." Its disrespectful to the office and to the man.
frylock
(34,825 posts)did you respect that guy as well?
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)all straight couples share a 'spiritual element' that only such couples are given by God anything else that person says is tainted by that superstitious and vapid prejudice.
Integrity, says a man who claims all of Newt's 'unions' were made by God, personally and had a huge spiritual nature to it all, especially the one Newt dumped in the hospital...Sanctity, oh trembling with the power of Sanctity.
Integrity from folks who makeup libels to speak against others based on what invisible beings say? Right.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)msongs
(67,441 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)perhaps you have some secretly recorded Oval Office tapes you'd like to post for our enjoyment. Methinks you don't know much about how the Fed Govt works.
totodeinhere
(13,059 posts)Obama's policies I suspect that he would have been gone a long time ago. As it stands now, there are reports that Obama is looking to replace Holder with Deval Patrick once the furor over all of this dies down.