According to White House spokesman Jay Carney, President Barack Obama learned about the Department of Justice’s seizure of Associated Press phone records when the rest of us did, from the media reports about it.
Q When did the President find out about the Department of Justice’s subpoenas for the Associated Press?
MR. CARNEY: Yesterday. Let me just be clear. We don’t have any independent knowledge of that. He found out about the news reports yesterday on the road.
Why did the DoJ subpoena those phone records? Attorney General Eric Holder says that it was done in response to a “very, very serious” leak.
“This was a very serious leak. A very, very serious leak,” Holder said Tuesday at a press conference. He added that it was possibly the most serious leak he had seen, or at least top two or three.
“It put the American people at risk,” he said. “And that is not hyperbole.”
“Trying to determine who was responsible for that, I think, required aggressive action,” he said.
But, apparently, it didn’t require the president’s input. Even though the leak put the American people at risk, according to Holder.
Does this make any sense? How are Americans supposed to process this? The Ulsterman report comes up with an either/or.
Either Barack Obama did in fact know of his DOJ’s actions against the media, and then had his administration lie about it, or he has an administration that does not even bother to inform him of a significant threat to the United States.
Just what does Barack Obama do all day?
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