James Cole Authorized AP Subpoenas, Eric Holder Confirms
5/15/13
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from The Huffington Post,
5/15/13:
Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed Wednesday that Deputy Attorney General James Cole, a longtime friend of Holder’s and the number two official at the Justice Department, signed off on subpoenaing a wide range of Associated Press phone records.
Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, Holder at first said he had to “assume” that Cole signed off on the subpoenas, which came out of an investigation run from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. But after being handed a note from an aide, Holder said he could confirm that Cole was responsible for signing off on the subpoenas because Holder had recused himself from the investigation into a leak about an undercover al Qaeda sting involving the CIA.
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