by: John Hayward
GOOD AFTERNOON TO EVERYONE!
So much for plausible deniability! Attorney General Eric Holder's signature is all over the paperwork authorizing surveillance against Fox News reporter James Rosen. This was revealed just hours after President Obama told America he would assign Eric Holder to get to the bottom of the scandal. Holder probably didn't even have time to ask himself any stern questions in the mirror before the truth leaked out.
The President is supposed to be "troubled" about the use of Justice Department power to criminalize reporting and intimidate the press. "Journalists should not be at legal risk for doing their jobs," said Obama yesterday.
Holder has survived numerous scandals by pleading incompetence, but it's hard to imagine he can get away with claiming he didn't read the Fox News search warrants before he signed them.
Meanwhile, we've learned that IRS Director of Exempt Organizations Lois Lerner - supposedly shocked to discover those fabled "low-level employees in Cincinnati" were systematically discriminating against conservative organizations - was signing off on intimidating letters to those very same organizations, nine months after she said she learned of the abusive practices and put a stop to them. She is now on paid administrative leave, reportedly because she refused to resign.
It's long past time for heads to start rolling. Paid vacations handed out with a mild cluck of the tongue are not enough.
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