U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told a congressional committee Wednesday that he no involvement in the case that led to subpoenas of Associated Press journalists’ phone records, over which RNC Chairman Reince Priebus called on him to resign.
“There’s been a lot of criticism. The head of the RNC asked for my resignation. I was not the person involved in that decision,” Holder told the House Judiciary Committee. “But be that as it may, I was recused in that matter as I described in a press conference held yesterday the decision issued the subpoena was made by the people involved in the case. The matter is being supervised by the deputy attorney general. I am not familiar with the reasons why the case — why the subpoena was constructed in the way that it was because I’m simply not a part of the case.”
