released a statement supporting darrell issa saying that the justice department is out of excuses. now the government reform committee scheduled to vote june 20. hearing to hold attorney general in contempt of congress for failing to cooperate in the investigation. start with the panel. jonah goldberg. a.b. stoddard of the hill. and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. okay, a.b., it has gotten this. the justice department says they have done everything. republicans say it doesn t matter. there is an argument about thousands of documents have been provided. there is an argument about the one that have not. mr. holder s defenders say he is complying with the best he can and the documents in question are not dits closeable. this is not something that sounds like it is going to go
on the pintment of the attorney inside the justice department. the republicans are letting the administration off really easy here because it allows the administration officials to answer all questions from today on. an say oh, i cap answer because there is an ongoing investigation. how independent are the people? how long are we going to give them a leash to see if they are going to produce a real investigation? lock, the most telling line, arguement is that president obama or his staff releases information to make themselves look tough as john mccain put it. my favorite is the kill list story in the new york times it says one of the reasons why president obama personally overseas the kill list is because, why he immersed himself in low counterterrorism operations is because he is a student of the writings on war by augustin and thomas aquintis. this was leaked bay grizzled c.i.a. operative who wanted it
today. late friday, the justice department sent out announce fire department the attorney general who says two u.s. attorneys, one from the district of columbia and rosenstein from the district of maryland will lead the criminal investigation. the attorney general said they are fully authorized to prosecute criminal investigations and follow investigate il leads within the executive and legislative branchs of got. sunday talk show, the head of the senate and the house intelligence committees weighed in. some of the leaks, public leaks are self-described aides or people in the situation room. a pretty small and important group of people. my question to the attorney general is good start, maybe. but we need to find out if they will have that independence. i take the president at face value. chairman mcmorris rogers said the investigation has to be nonpartisan, vigorous and move ahead rapidly. the white house press secretary was pushed to explain why the administration was so conf