asked about this very issue. yes. sean: he said absolutely it is not this. but we now know that they knew six months before this election that in fact this had occurred, and he never went back to the committee, he never revised, extended his remarks? never corrected his remarks. he used this language he said, i can assure you that nothing is going, politically focused going on, targeting conservative groups. he used the words i can assure you. that s strong language. then when he finds out it was, doesn t correct the record, that s a problem. he had a lot of questioning about that issue. sean: there was an issue, chairman issa, a bipartisan letter signed by chairman david camp, and sandra levin of the ways and means committee, and they requested from the white house that documents and information be sent over to them by yesterday. they ve apparently decided they re not going to send it over, at least not in a timely fashion. how troublesome is that to you?
a, quote, possible criminal co-conspirator for his role in publishing sensitive security information. now earlier today the u.s. attorney in d.c. pushed back, releasing a statement to fox news. he said, quote, we did not wiretap the phones or any reporter or news organization, nor did we monitor or track the phone calls of any reporters parents. no records were obtained from the computer servers of any news organization. here with react is the architect, fox news contributor, karl rove. it would be james rosen gmail account, as i understand it it, number one. number two, we know from the document released yesterday, weren t they monitoring what phone calls were made by who from whom where and when? yeah. look, this is too cute by half. let s step back for a minute. i have sympathy for the government trying to protect classified information, but heretofore for decades the focus and leak investigations has been on the leaker, not the
journalist who received the information. for very good reason. the journalist is out there doing their job under the first amendment. as a result, the justice department has developed a series of very strict guidelines that require the attorney general of the united states to sign off on any subpoena, to collect this kind of information. and as a result, it is rarely done. but we now have two instances of it being done, first by the administration and going after james rosen. this went back to as early as may of 2010. then a more recent example going after the phone lines used by 100 editors and journalists of the associated press. we now have the administration changing the focus from who did the leak to who was the journalist who received the information. sean: we now know, we have sources now, that have confirmed that the one of the numbers listed in the government s discovery matches james rosen parents, where they live, which i don t think it would be fair
a, quote, possible criminal co-conspirator for his role in publishing sensitive security information. now earlier today the u.s. attorney in d.c. pushed back, releasing a statement to fox news. he said, quote, we did not wiretap the phones or any reporter or news organization, nor did we monitor or track the phone calls of any reporters parents. no records were obtained from the computer servers of any news organization. here with react is the architect, fox news contributor, karl rove. it would be james rosen gmail account, as i understand it it, number one. number two, we know from the document released yesterday, weren t they monitoring what phone calls were made by who from whom where and when? yeah. look, this is too cute by half. let s step back for a minute. i have sympathy for the government trying to protect classified information, but heretofore for decades the focus and leak investigations has been on the leaker, not the
held in contempt of congress? she could be held in comp tempt. ultimately we re fortunate that most people that come before us, people that are whistleblowers, are coming forward, including tea party groups that want to make records available to the committee so we can act on their behalf. a lot of the activities we ll get, a lot of information we re getting out of whistleblowers and voluntary witnesses. we re deeply disappointed. we re hoping she ll reconsider in light of waving her fifth amendment rights. sean: congress jordan, you brought up the issue today of the 118 visits. some of it you brought up was to talk about obamacare, the affordable care act. were you as stunned as i was? the answer was, i was there for the easter egg roll with my kids. 118 visits, and we know a