{"id":18094,"date":"2013-05-31T18:57:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T22:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18094"},"modified":"2013-05-31T18:57:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T22:57:15","slug":"doj-defends-ag-holder-says-no-perjury-committed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18094\/doj-defends-ag-holder-says-no-perjury-committed\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Defends AG Holder, Says No Perjury Committed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials at the Department of Justice say boss Attorney General Eric Holder did not commit perjury when he lied to Congress under oath.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, that\u2019s a little unfair (but only a little).<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the way <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2013\/05\/31\/justice-dept-says-holder-didnt-lie-before-congressional-committee\/?hpt=po_c2\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a> phrases it: \u201cAttorney General Eric Holder\u2019s sworn testimony before lawmakers this month was \u2018accurate and consistent with the facts,\u2019 a Justice Department spokesman stressed late Thursday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, those facts are these: Since Holder and DOJ are not intending to prosecute Fox News reporter James Rosen as a co-conspirator in a national security leak investigation, Holder was telling the truth when he said under oath that prosecuting journalists \u201cis not something I\u2019ve ever been involved in, heard of, or would think would be wise policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But as I said yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18067\/carney-can%E2%80%99t-save-holder%E2%80%99s-misleading-testimony-to-congress\/ \" target=\"_blank\">knocking down a similar argument<\/a>, that\u2019s fallacious. There is zero chance a federal judge would have approved of the Rosen search warrant had investigators not labeled him a co-conspirator, implying that he too would be prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p>Wrong too is any idea that anyone in the Justice Department is going to say or do anything to question their boss\u2019s fitness for office.<\/p>\n<p>That job belongs to Congress. And, if the evidence they uncover convinces a majority that Holder is unfit to be Attorney General, <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/1861-congress-has-the-right-perhaps-the-duty-to-impeach-eric-holder\" target=\"_blank\">they should impeach him<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials at the Department of Justice say boss Attorney General Eric Holder did not commit perjury when he lied to Congress under oath. Okay, that\u2019s a little unfair (but only a little). Here\u2019s the way CNN phrases it: \u201cAttorney General Eric Holder\u2019s sworn testimony before lawmakers this month was \u2018accurate and consistent with the facts,\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1358,84,3494,498,4161,2048,1823],"class_list":["post-18094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-attorney-general","tag-congress","tag-doj","tag-eric-holder","tag-impeachment","tag-investigation","tag-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18094"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18103,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18094\/revisions\/18103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}