-By Warner Todd Huston
Bill Press is a liberal radio show host with a syndicated show heard across the country, so, naturally, Press is also an Obama supporter. But even this Obama supporter thinks that it is time for U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to be fired.
After news broke that Holder’s Department of Justice had subpoenaed the personal and business phone records of some 100 reporters from the Associated Press the liberal talker took to Twitter to call for Holder’s head.
I still haven’t heard a legit justification for the subpoenaing the AP phone records. They didn’t notify AP, they didn’t narrow search.
— Bill Press (@bpshow) May 16, 2013
What “breach of national security” are we talking about re the AP story? It’s BS and Holder should be fired.
— Bill Press (@bpshow) May 16, 2013
For people who say that Holder was “just doing his job,” he didn’t “do his job” by going after Cheney or Bush. He left THAT alone!
— Bill Press (@bpshow) May 16, 2013
Pressure is mounting on Holder from his normally adoring liberal fans. In one example of such, on May14, 52 media organizations signed a letter with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press demanding an explanation from Holder. The letter also demanded that the DOJ destroy all the phone records it had obtained.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, RightPundits.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, AmericanDaily.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
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