Republicans Press Holder on Press Prosecutions Testimony

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Republicans in the U.S. House are questioning whether Attorney General Eric Holder misled Congress by saying he’d never been involved in a potential prosecution of a reporter for publishing classified information.

The Justice Department said on May 24 that Holder participated in the decision to seek a search warrant for Fox News reporter James Rosen’s e-mails as part of an investigation into a 2009 leak about North Korea’s nuclear program. The disclosure came after the attorney general told a congressional panel that he had never been involved in a potential case against a journalist for revealing state secrets.