WASHINGTON, DC Shut Up thats the advice from Attorney General Eric Holder to the person leaking information about the Michael Brown investigation. Browns August shooting death set off weeks of protests in Ferguson, Missouri. Holder says the leaks are not productive. He was speaking at the Washington Ideas Forum on Wednesday.
This notion of leaking out selective information, which started as early as the release from the tape of that candy store, the convenience store, and then these leaks about what happened in the car, these are all the kinds of things I think are inappropriate. I said Im exasperated, its a nice way of saying Im mad. Whoever the sources of the leaks are, they need to shut up.
When it comes to the Ferguson police department, Holder says, in his words, wholesale change is appropriate.
The Attorney General also said people are still too reluctant to talk about issues of race.
Ive been criticized a great deal for the use of that language, but Ive never backed off the use of that language.If you look at the incidents that have happened since I gave that speech, whether it was Shirley Sherrod or other things, Holder said. I think we have this episodic interest in race, where we have conversations that I think are too superficial, and without confronting these racial issues that continue to divide us, and going beyond conversations, coming up with concrete actions, were going to continue to face these kinds of problems.
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Before Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart ended his interview with Attorney General Eric Holder at the Washington Ideas Forum Wednesday, he asked one final question: Whats the one decision you made that you wish you could do over again?
Without much hesitation, Holder brought up the Justice Department subpoena of Fox News reporter James Rosen, who had his communications tracked in 2009 after he was suspected of receiving secret information from government sources on North Korea. In a subpoena to Google to obtain Rosens emails, the government labeled him as an aider and abettor and/or co-conspirator.
Holder said he could have been more careful in the language that was used in the court filing, especially regarding the word co-conspirator. While he said the department had to do that as a result of the statute, he added that there are ways in which I think that could have been done differently, done better.
The attorney general indicated that he felt the criticism he received for those actions was fair and said that it sparked a review of the way the Justice Department interacts with the media.
Rosen has not yet responded to Holders comments directly, but he did retweet several mentions of them on his Twitter account Wednesday:
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Former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano considered a long-shot candidate to replace Eric Holder as attorney general stressed Monday that she plans to stay in her current job for a long time but didnt rule out returning to Washington.
When asked Monday whether she was interested in being Holders successor at the Justice Department, Napolitano chuckled.
Let me put it this way, Napolitano, the current president of the University of California, said in a phone interview. I think Ive got one of the best jobs in public service, and I intend to hold it for a long time.
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She added: I dont speculate on things that I havent been offered. Napolitano also declined to say whether she has been contacted by administration officials on replacing Holder.
Holder announced late last month that he will step down after six years as the nations top law enforcement official. He plans to stay on until his successor is confirmed, although its unclear when that will occur. The White House says it wont announce a nominee until after the midterm elections.
Much of the speculation had centered on three candidates: former White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler, Labor Secretary Tom Perez and Solicitor General Don Verrilli. But Ruemmler last week told the White House that she wanted to be withdrawn from consideration.
Napolitano spoke to POLITICO ahead of her speech Monday afternoon at the University of Georgia School of Law, where she planned to detail the internal deliberations around the time the administration announced and implemented the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program the 2012 initiative that shielded hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants from deportations.
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