Eric Holder's off-the-record meeting with journalists on Thursday turned out to be more "off-the-recordish."
The attorney general held the first of two gatherings with reporters and editors to make amends for his department's widely condemned leak policies and to signal a shift in the way the investigations are conducted. Representatives from five outlets--the New Yorker, Washington Post, Politico, Daily News and Wall Street Journal--sat down with Holder. Their presence at the meeting was controversial, since many other organizations, including The Huffington Post, had declined an invitation because they would not be allowed to share details of the discussion with their audience.
Readers may have been surprised, then, to see in-depth reports of the meeting in places such as the Associated Press and Reuters. Both wire services ran lengthy pieces which featured quotes from journalists who had attended the gathering and discussed, in general terms, what Holder and his representatives said to them.
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