Attorney General Eric Holder defends his deputy's decision to secretly obtain journalist's phone records saying that they were searching for a 'very serious' leak | Mail Online

Attorney General Eric Holder defends his deputy's decision to secretly obtain journalist's phone records saying that they were searching for a 'very serious' leak | Mail Online

Attorney General Eric Holder went on the defensive on Tuesday explaining why the Justice Department secretly obtained two months worth of reporters' telephone records in an 'unprecedented' search for a confidential source.

'This was a very serious leak and a very, very serious leak,' Holder said at a press conference explaining the department's actions which have been criticized for going against the constitutional right to a free press. 

Holder said that he recused himself from the making the controversial decision to subpoena the phone records of Associated Press journalists, saying that it was made by Deputy Attorney General James Cole.

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