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Eric Holder: “The policy we left in place was probably violated. I put that policy in place because I thought in our pursuit of leak…”

On the recordJune 7, 2021
The policy we left in place was probably violated. I put that policy in place because I thought in our pursuit of leak cases, we had gone too far and concerns raised by the media were, in fact, valid ones.
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Eric Holder
Democratic · District of Columbia
Source
msnbc.com

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Eric Holder discusses the violation of the Justice Department's policy regarding the pursuit of leak cases and the protection of reporters.

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