Holder says he had no direct role in AP subpoena

May 15, 2013 02:56

Attorney General Eric Holder has said that he played no direct role in the Justice Department's secret review of Associated Press phone records but called it part of an investigation into what he termed a grave national security leak.

Holder said he had removed himself from the matter because of congressional testimony he had given and his dealings with the news media.

The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of AP reporters and editors.

Holder said federal prosecutors are looking into the matter.

"This was a very serious leak, a very grave leak" that "put the American people at risk," Holder told reporters at a news conference today.

Holder has assigned Deputy Attorney General Jim Cole to handle the phone records case.

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