Right before the Snowden leaks came out, you may recall there were some other controversies, involving the DOJ spying on reporters, including claiming that reporter James Rosen was an „aider, abettor or co-conspirator“ in order to get access to his emails and phone records. In response to this controversy, President Obama… put Attorney General Eric Holder in charge of investigating these efforts, despite the fact that it was under Eric Holder‘s watch that these things happened.