By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--May 30, 2013
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“It seems self-evident that that charge is inaccurate,” White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters. “Based on the published reports that I have seen, I have seen no conflict between what the attorney general said and published reports.”The "published reports" refers to NBC's report that it was Holder who signed off on the warrant against Rosen. How can that not be a lie? It can't. It's a simple, straightforward impossibility. So Carney tells another lie to cover it up:
“Clearly what the attorney general said is accurate,” he said. Carney said that media reports indicate that no prosecution of Rosen is being contemplated, and that therefore Holder’s statement regarding potential prosecution is correct. “I think based on what you said, he testified truthfully,” Carney said after the Holder quote was read aloud by a reporter. “You guys are conflating the subpoena with prosecution.”Now granted, Carney's lie is a lie of implication, but that doesn't make it any less dishonest. By emphasizing that no prosecution of Rosen is under current consideration, Carney tries to change the story to be about the here and now. But it's not about the here and now. The warrant was issued in 2009, based on the administration's claim at that time that Rosen might be a criminal co-conspirator in a leak case. That means that the potential for prosecution was either a) real; or b) presented to the judge as real as justification for the warrant, if it there really was no such consideration, then that's another lie. Whatever is being considered or not considered now is completely irrelevant. Holder lied when he said he knew nothing about potential prosecution of a journalist for disclosure of information. Carney lied to try to cover up Holder's lie. This whole administration is nothing but a bunch of liars.
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