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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder leads a news conference with Acting Associate Attorney General Tony West, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart Delery and attorneys general from eight states and the District of Columbia at the Department of Justice February 5, 2013 in Washington, DC. Holder and the Obama Administration came under great criticism from civil rights groups when it was revealed they had been spying on journalists from the Associated Press and Fox News while investigating leaks of classified information.chip.somodevilla