department. but the justice department wasn t just trying to catch a leaker. a government affidavit describing rosen as at the very least either as an aider, abettor, and/or co-conspirator. the justice department was alleging that the reporter in question, our colleague, james, had engaged possibly in a conspiracy, a criminal conspiracy, which means, martha, that the obama/holder justice department is now prepared to treat the ordinary news gathering activities of rompers trying to seek information from government officials as a possible crime. fox s lawyers have asked rosen not to discuss the case, but he did say this. as a reporter i will always honor the confidentiality of my dealings with all of my sources. yeah. justice department says it doesn t anticipate bringing any charges beyond the indictment of steven kin, the state department official being prosecuted in the leak case. joining us now in new york kelly goff, special correspondent for the root.com. and here in was
our coverage of the tornado will continue in a few minutes. first, the justice department wasn t just targeting the associated press. it also went after a fox news reporter. our own chief washington correspondent james rosen. federal investigators tracked his comings and goings at the u.s. state department and secretly obtained copies of his personal e-mails to build a case against one of his sources. this is the first time that the federal government has moved to this level of taking ordinary, reasonable, traditional, lawful reporter skills and claiming they constitute criminal behavior. the white house says it is a strong defender of the first amendment but stands by the justice department investigating classified leaks and claiming james rosen was doing something criminal. raymond maxwell lost his job at the state department after the benghazi terror attacks though he had no role in security decisions. he says he s been scapegoated by
screen of the justice department. according to the inspector general s report, as of last july, the u.s. marshal service was unable to locate the two people described as known or suspected terrorist this infewer yates some members of congress, including senator chuck grassley, this is another example of the justice department s ineptness at the basic handling of an important practice. they may be in a witness protection program but they were still known or suspected terrorists. it s only logical the federal department know where they are but justice department says this is a witnesses are free leave it. shepard: we re learn something witnesses with terror links may have boarded commercial airplanes. is that right? this is another problem. people who go into the witness security program are given new names and identities about the justice department wasn t authorizing the new names to be
congressional inquiries. clearly darrell isa suspects a cover-up in the justice department, and the justice department wasn t telling congress what it knew about fast and furious, and the subpoena apparently has been narrowed to focus quite specifically on that stuff. greta: what s surprising about the washington post interview, it was the attorney general saying, whoa is me, i m the target, so is the president, having no insight that this is an investigation into the murder of a border agent, actually two border agents. i was surprised he thought the focus was all about him. it sort of you know, it sort of denigrated, you know, the effort to really sort of get of information for the family, and for the american people. he s right, that there are a lot of conflicts between republicans in congress and the justice department about things like immigration, about things like voter id, about terrorist intentions, but none of those resulted in the attorney general being cited in cont
congressional inquiries. clearly darrell isa suspects a cover-up in the justice department, and the justice department wasn t telling congress what it knew about fast and furious and the subpoena apparently has been narrowed to focus quite specifically on that stuff. greta: what s surprising about the washington post interview, it was the attorney general saying, whoa is me, i m the target, so is the president having no insight that this is an investigation into the murder of a border agent actually two border agents. i was surprised he thought the focus was all about him. it sort of you know, it sort of denigrated, you know, the effort to really sort of get of information for the family, and for the american people. he s right that there are a lot of conflicts between republicans in congress and the justice department about things like immigration about things like voter id, about terrorist intentions, but none of those resulted in the attorney general being cited in contempt.