US Attorney General Eric Holder says he’s asked the FBI to investigate the “outrageous and unacceptable” behavior at the IRS, and to see if any criminal actions were taken by the agency.
Holder told reporters Tuesday that he recused himself last year from any involvement in an investigation of national security leaks adding that decisions in that investigation were being made by Deputy Attorney General James Cole and “the deputy attorney general would have been the one who ultimately had to authorize the subpoena that went to the AP.”
Holder elaborated that:
“I am confident that the people who are involved in this investigation, who I know for a great many years and who I’ve worked with for a great many years, followed all of the appropriate Justice Department regulations and did things according to DOJ rules.”
He added that it “certainly not the policy of this administration” to target reporters. What has been done in the leaks investigation was, he said, “not as a result of a policy to get the press.”
You can watch Eric Holder speaking to reporters below:
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