Eric Holder

Blogs are entitled to First Amendment protection.

Okay. Yes. That is our objective, as well.

Absolutely. I think the purging should occur. It just ought to be done consistent with Federal law.

Well, certainly when we are at our best, that is what happens.

We do not see that to the proportions that people have said, you know, in an attempt to try to justify these photo ID laws.

I don't feel that, you know. I understand he is asking questions; I am trying to responded as best I can.

He has been an outstanding U.S. Attorney in two Administrations. He is a true patriot.

I want to reiterate my commitment to working with congressional leaders to meet the needs of our law enforcement partners and to help address serious national security challenges on our borders.

Do you think that the ex parte process that was included here is proper and consistent with the First and Fifth Amendments?

I want to know what the Department's posture is if an ICE agent is behaving recklessly in an investigation.

Ultimately a judge, I think, would probably override our assertion of the privilege, and then we would have to decide whether or not we wanted to dismiss the case.

I have looked at these affidavits, I have looked at these summaries. There is nothing in those affidavits, as I have reviewed them, that indicates that gun-walking was allowed.

We do support them. It is the most important legislative concern of the Intelligence Community, and we hope that Congress will pass that reauthorization before the expiration at the end of the year.

I have to advance or try to advance legislation that I think is appropriate for the Department. That is a political job.

We have filed suit against immigration laws that have been passed by a variety of States.

I would agree with President Johnson, with what he said after the 1965 Voting Rights Act was passed, that voting is the most important right that we have as American citizens.

If you want to directly impact governmental policy, who is setting those policies, that is directly tied to the ability to vote, to cast a ballot.

The problem with the Florida effort is that it runs counter to the National Voter Registration Act.

You can't seize things, have secret proceedings in the Federal court, and then a year later come up with probable cause.

We have opposed 11--11. Eighteen hundred requests, we have opposed 11.

They have no rights, and I stand with any State official, Federal official who wants to make sure that our voting system is done in an appropriate way.

I would hope that we would be able to work together to come up with a way in which we could craft tools to deal with what is truly a 21st-century problem.

The ability of foreign countries or organizations to have an impact on our infrastructure, to use cyber tools to ferret out secret information from the United States, all puts our Nation at risk.

We do enforce the laws. We are more effective than any----

The piracy question is one that has economic consequences as well as safety consequences.