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From: barry levine
Date: Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 8:59 AM
Subject: re: Holder Fortifies Protection of News Media’s Phone Records, Notes or Emails
To: "letters@nytimes.com"
To the Editor:
Even as he flip-flops on his persecution of journalists, Eric Holder still hews to his larger agenda, privileging internal Department of Justice guidelines over duly enacted law. But it is for the Legislature to enact law, and it is for the Courts to interpret law. The constitution defines the role of the Executive as taking "care that the Laws be faithfully executed". Any time taken in promulgating or polishing or enforcing internal Department of Justice guidelines is time taken from doing the Attorney General's job as laid out in our Constitution.
Even as he flip-flops on his persecution of journalists, Eric Holder still hews to his larger agenda, privileging internal Department of Justice guidelines over duly enacted law. But it is for the Legislature to enact law, and it is for the Courts to interpret law. The constitution defines the role of the Executive as taking "care that the Laws be faithfully executed". Any time taken in promulgating or polishing or enforcing internal Department of Justice guidelines is time taken from doing the Attorney General's job as laid out in our Constitution.
Barry Haskell Levine
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/15/us/politics/journalists-win-more-protection-from-government-prosecution.html
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