A reminder of why MSNBC has plummeted to last place in the cable news standings via The Washington Free Beacon: MSNBC contributor Michael Eric Dyson called Attorney General Eric Holder “the Moses of our time” Wednesday on “Martin Bashir.” He
***Added: Fox News and CBS have announced they are joining the boycott. Eric Holder’s attempt to save his job by repairing his image with the media through a series of off-the-record meetings with several news organizations is backfiring in a
While President Obama’s Attorney General, Eric Holder, faces a possible perjury charge and increased calls for his resignation over the Justice Department’s outrageous spying on the media — elsewhere, another scandal is taking another kind of toll. A new Quinnpiac
A coalition of 27 Congressmen has formed to sign a letter urging the Department of Justice and Attorney General Eric Holder to rescind an order to deport a German family whose only crime was to homeschool their children. In 2008
The government obtained “thousands and thousands” of phone records of Associated Press staffers according to CEO Gary Pruitt. Pruitt held a town hall meeting with AP staff and revealed that the phone records obtained by the DOJ included incoming and
On Wednesday, Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder explaining they are worried he committed perjury when he testified before Congress on May 15. That day, Holder testified he had nothing to
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney on Wednesday claimed Attorney General Eric Holder did not mislead Congress when he claimed that he had no involvement or knowledge in the Department of Justice’s seizure of reporters’ communications. Reporters objected strongly that
Attorney General Eric Holder will go on a public relations campaign this week in an attempt to convince the journalism community and First Amendment advocates that his Justice Department did not attempt to chill and target journalists. Mainstream media organizations
Even as Senate Democrats express concern over the Department of Justice targeting reporters, Senate Democratic press spokesperson Brian Fallon is moving from the Senate Democrats over to the Justice Department to do flacking for Attorney General Eric Holder. Fallon will
US Attorney General Eric Holder will reportedly meet this week with Washington bureau chiefs at major media outlets to brief them on how the Justice Department deals with journalists who work with leakers. Michael Calderone of Huffington Post reports, “It’s
The Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee raised the stakes in the ongoing stare-down with Attorney General Eric Holder over his involvement with controversial investigations of reporters over the past several years. Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) along with Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner
The House Judiciary Committee is looking into Attorney General Eric Holder’s May 15 testimony on the Justice Department’s surveillance of reporters, to see if he lied under oath. An aide “close to the matter” told The Hill that the panel is
Attorney General Eric Holder faced questions from Iowa Republican Steve King on May 15th about the fraudulent Pigford black farmers settlement and told the congressman that steps had been taken to limit fraud. However, the Attorney General’s Department of Justice
According to reports on Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder wasn’t all gumdrops and rainbows about the Department of Justice grabbing the email and phone records of Fox News reporter James Rosen. The Daily Beast reports that Holder felt bad after
The Hill reports that a panel for the House Judiciary Committee is investigating whether Attorney General Eric Holder lied under oath during his May 15 Congressional testimony about the Justice Department’s surveillance of reporters. When asked about prosecuting reporters, Holder
Embattled Attorney General Eric Holder is in full damage control mode. In an attempt to re-shape his image with the press after the highly damaging revelations that he personally signed-off on secret subpoena requests for James Rosen and Fox News over
On The “Fox News Sunday” panel Brit Hume on Attorney General Eric Holder…
Sunday on CBS’ Face the Nation, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) stated that Attorney General Eric Holder should be prevented from investigating himself over accusations concerning Department of Justice targeting of journalists. “Allowing the very person that authorized the two things
As Politico’s Dylan Byers wrote Friday tensions remain very high in the hallways of CBS News as Sharyl Attkisson continues to butt heads with producers unwilling to give her stories air time on CBS Evening News. The tensions began when
Attorney General Eric Holder contradicted comments he made to NPR on May 15th when he testified before Congress the same day: “In regard to potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material, that is not something I’ve ever
Last week, and while under oath, Attorney General Eric Holder testified before a House committee that when it comes to “try[ing] to prosecute the press for the publication of material” he has “never been involved in, heard of” such a
A new Fox News poll shows Obama’s disapproval rating among registered voters has spiked to 51%, up from 45% last month. The poll shows an 8-point swing against Obama since April. Another shocking finding, undoubtedly linked to recent scandals, is
Today, the United States formally acknowledged killing four American citizens with drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan. Attorney General Eric Holder disclosed in a letter the administration had killed Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Muslim cleric in a September 2011 drone strike
On Tuesday, U.S. Senator John Thune (R-SD) sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew questioning the wisdom of placing Sarah Hall Ingram, the embattled former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) commissioner for tax-exempt groups, in
