Politico, which along with ABC and the Washington Post seems to be one of the few to accept Attorney General Eric Holder’s invitation to an off-the-record meeting of Washington bureau chiefs, reports that NBC News has at last announced that it too will pass.
NBC News declines to participate in off the record meeting "on this issue" w/ AG Holder as Holder calls in buro chiefs on leak guidelines
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) May 30, 2013
NBC News spox: "NBC News declines to participate in an off the record meeting on this issue."
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) May 30, 2013
Like the New York Times, the AP and others, NBC has cited Holder’s condition that the meeting be “off-the-record” as the deal-breaker. Is there any point in still having the meeting if (practically) no one is coming? Or does Holder need just one sympathetic media outlet to show up and then “leak” whatever details he wants to get out?
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