Double down.

Via WaPo:

Attorney General Eric Holder, in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee, maintains that he didn’t lie to members of Congress when he said that the Justice Department was not moving to prosecute journalists who publish classified information.

House Republicans have opened a perjury inquiry, arguing that Holder’s statement doesn’t square with the department’s labeling of Fox News reporter James Rosen as a potential “co-conspirator” in court documents used to monitor Rosen.

“In order to proceed under the Privacy Protection Act, the government was required to establish that there was probable cause to believe that the reporter had committed or was committing a criminal offense to which the needed materials related,” Holder wrote in the letter.

He added: “As explained in our prior letters, the government’s decision to seek this search warrant was an investigative step, and at no time during this matter have prosecutors sought approval from me to bring criminal charges against the reporter.”

Holder said at a May hearing that he was not aware of any potential criminal cases being brought against journalists.

http://weaselzippers.us/2013/06/20/holde...-though-he-did/

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Holder Tells Congress He Didn’t Lie To Them About James Rosen… Even Though He Did…

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A parlor game I invented goes something like this:

1. After you've scanned the news containing the latest regime scandal, follow THIS LINK to a page containing quotes from Orwell's "1984".

2. See which quote(s) fits it best.

3. Try it - it's a fascinating way to pass the time.

Here are two that I think fit this regime scandal:

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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
¯ George Orwell, 1984

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It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
¯ George Orwell, 1984

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"It was not a lie. I mispoke the untruth."