Eric Holder actually said...

"this was outrageous and unacceptable."

"federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving Boston marathon bombing suspect."

"I think we want to make this a pretty wide-ranging interaction with those people who have been critical of Section 215."

"I believe that they are correct that it is constitutional. It is an appropriate use in a constitutional sense of the Government's power."