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President Passerby needs urgently to become a participant in his presidency.

Late Monday came the breathtaking news of a full-frontal assault on the First Amendment by his administration: word that the Justice Department had gone on a fishing expedition through months of phone records of Associated Press reporters.

Dana Milbank

Dana Milbank writes a regular column on politics.

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And Eric Holder is seized by political quicksand.

And yet President Obama reacted much as he did to the equally astonishing revelation on Friday that the IRS had targeted conservative groups based on their ideology: He responded as though he were just some bloke on a bar stool, getting his information from the evening news.

In the phone-snooping case, Obama didnt even stir from his stool. Instead, he had his press secretary, former Time magazine journalist Jay Carney, go before an incensed press corps Tuesday afternoon and explain why the president will not be involving himself in his Justice Departments trampling of press freedoms.

Other than press reports, we have no knowledge of any attempt by the Justice Department to seek phone records of the Associated Press, Carney announced.

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Obama, the uninterested president