"I don't think there's been a secretary of defense in history who has been in front of the media as much as he has, " noted Pentagon press secretary Eric Ruff.
He has appealed, sought dismissals but the charges continue because Attorney General Andrew Cuomo (now governor) and the current Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, decided to press forward.
It has even led to the extraordinary sight of major media outlets this week banding together to boycott meetings planned by Eric Holder to discuss Justice's press investigations.
In recent years CEO Eric Schmidt and others have repeatedly emphasized the need for a thriving press, both as a matter of public interest and of Google's self-interest.
Attorney Eric Geffon, who represents one of the three suspects, told The Associated Press that attorneys representing all three will have a statement Tuesday after a hearing in Juvenile Court.
It was springtime in Berlin and Eric Holder, a well-known "rule of law" devotee, was speaking to the German press.
But Larry and Google CEO Eric Schmidt faced the world's toughest tech journos on their own afterwards at an invite-only press conference.
"There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of the Associated Press and its reporters, " Mr Pruitt wrote in a letter to US Attorney General Eric Holder.
Associated Press Photographer Rogelio Solis in Corinth and writers Emily Wagster Pettus in Jackson, Jay Reeves in Oxford and Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report.
Biden was to announce plans to introduce the bill at a press conference Thursday with AOL chief executive officer Stephen Case, CaseFoundation president Jean Case and Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder.
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