Attorney General Holder speaks out on Voter ID, Wall St, NSA

Attorney General Eric Holder dismissed a new government watchdog report which declared some National Security Agency programs illegal, insisting that the spy agency’s vast secret surveillance is on strong legal footing. He said he hadn’t read the new report from the government’s privacy and civil liberties board, but noted that “at least 15 judges on about 35 occasions have said that the program itself is legal.” When asked about judges who disagree, including a Washington federal court that rebuked the bulk data collection in December 2013, Attorney General Holder, himself a former Washington judge, contended the legal consensus is now clear. “I think that those other judges, those 15 judges, got it right,” Holder said.