Eric Holder Should Condemn James Clapper Calling Journalists 'Accomplices'
January 30, 2014

Via Techdirt:

We already pointed out James Clapper's ridiculous prepared remarks that referred to journalists as "accomplices" with Ed Snowden. In that post, we noted that Eric Holder had gone through a bit of controversy a year ago when it was revealed that the DOJ had claimed to a court that a reporter was involved in a crime in order to get access to his sources -- and that Holder had promised that the DOJ would not target journalists. As Holder said at the time:


"The Department has not prosecuted, and as long as I’m attorney general, will not prosecute any reporter for doing his or her job," Holder t...

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