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       Attorney General Holder to Testify Before Congressional Committee

   U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is set to testify before the House
   Judiciary Committee about the Justice Department`s gathering of
   Associated Press phone records.
   Committee chairman Bob Goodlatte says he expects committee members
   Wednesday to ask pointed questions about the Justice Department`s
   secret seizure and examination of two months of telephone records of
   reporters and editors for The Associated (AP). Goodlatte says Congress
   and the American people expect answers and accountability.
   On Tuesday Holder defended the Justice Department`s seizure as part of
   a probe into what he called a grave national security leak that put the
   American people at risk.
   The Justice Department is conducting a criminal investigation into who
   may have provided information for a May 2012 AP story about a CIA
   operation in Yemen that stopped an al-Qaida bomb plot.
   Holder is also expected to address the investigation of the IRS
   scrutiny of conservative groups and the handling of intelligence before
   the Boston Marathon bombings.
   Holder said he played no direct role in the review of the AP phone
   records from April and May of last year. Holder said he removed himself
   from the case and assigned it to a deputy attorney general because he
   had been interviewed by the FBI in connection with the leak.
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