Washington: US lawmakers accused the Obama administration on Wednesday of trampling on free speech rights and evading questions about the Justice Department's secret seizure of Associated Press telephone records.
US Attorney General Eric Holder, testifying before a House of Representatives panel, provided limited responses on the issue, noting he had been recused from the probe into a government leak that led to the records seizure.
Lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee became frustrated that Holder could not answer why the subpoena to obtain the records was so broad and why the Justice Department did not first try to negotiate with AP to obtain information.
"We don't know where the buck stops," said US Representative Jim Sensenbrenner, a Wisconsin Republican....
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Former IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi has denied any role in the attempt to access senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley's phone records. Modi's name surfaced in the controversy as someone whose call records were being sought as well as also possibly as someone who might have had a hand in this. ...
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Guwahati: Sticking to his controversial statement on Hemant Karkare, Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday said he was "not a liar" and was trying to get phone records to prove that the slain Maharashtra ATS chief had spoken to him a few hours before the 2008 Mumbai attacks. "I am not a liar, there is no need for me to lie that I had spoken to Hemant Karkare. There is...
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