the attorney general should ensure that are full unredacted version of that opr report is provided to congress. at an oversight hearing november 11th, november last year, when the senator asked for a copy of the final opr report, holder said "that is up to the people at opr. what i have indicated was that i want to share as much as that as we possibly can given the very public nature of that the matter and the very public decision that i made to dismiss the case." despite the attorney general's purported desire to make this information public, his statement that it is "up to the people at opr" lead me to believe that we aren't likely to ever see that report. the justice department has routinely blocked the release of opr investigations citing privacy laws. an employee writes of the attorney an agent guilty of misconduct, the attorney general ultimately oversees opr and if he truly wants that information made public, he should order it released upon the conclusion of the investigation. in the event he doesn't, the privacy act has an exemption for congress and so mr. chairman, even unde

appreciate what judge sullivan has done here, particularly allowing the release of this report, unredacted. and i hope the office of professional responsibility report will be released to us in full and in unredacted form so we can get to the bottom of this. of course one of the prosecutors in this case did not have an opportunity to respond to your report. nicholas marsh committed suicide, did he not? >> he did. although his counsel was invited to submit a response and did so as a representative of mr. marsh's estate. >> the justice department has told us that the stevens case does not suggest a systemic problem with regard to prosecutors buzzing their responsibilities to divulge exculpatory and other information required under brady and giglio. how are we to be -- how can we possibly be satisfied with that representation? and how do we know? how does any citizen know that the department of justice won't abide by similar prosecutorial misconduct in the future? >> first of all, i do not believe, on the basis of our investigation, that what happened in the stevens case is representative of

and i hope the office of professi r in full and in unredacted form so we can get to the bottom this. of course, nicholas marsh committed suicide, did he not? >> he although his counsel was invited to submit a response and did so as a representative of mr. marsh's estate. >> the justice department has told us that the stevens case systemic problem with regard

of the plain text of that statute, i hope as chairman, you will be able to obtain the opr report unredacted reform. i'll be happy to work with you on that issue. a lot of things went wrong in the prosecution of stevens and despite a strongly -- the strongly reported report that we're discussing here today, it seems nobody has been held accountable at the justice department. a criminal defendant's constitutional right to a fair trial regardless of who he is is fundamental to our criminal justice system. yet, when those rights were intentionally violated by the attorneys at the justice department, it seems no one was held accountable. i find this fact even more disturbing than the findings of this report and we have an obligation to hold the justice department accountable for what went wrong here and prevent it from happening in the future. thank you. >> thank you. i noted let's take it one step at a time. the attorney general deserves credit for the report dismissed. for having the opr report and he has told me that we will be seeing it. so let's take it one step at a time. today, we have ha

you provided unredacted documents, disclosed relative information that people have asked to hold accountable the treasury to find out what has occurred, where the tax dollars has gone. delphi retirees, 20,000 people across this country lost a portion of their profits as the three roles of the treasury, pension benefit guarantee corporation and auto task force picked winners and losers and they were ones that were picked as losers. tens of thousands of retirees left in the wake of gm bailout and then you have concern as to how do we look to the european crisis and whether or not similar conflicts of interests, taxpayers' dollars and a lack of openness or transparency. as you know, as the delphi retirees have tried to get information as to what happened, how they lost their pensions, the three roles of yourself, both in treasury, ppgc and the task force have been closed. documents have not been provided. redacted documents have been provided, if at all. and, most recently, we have the ppgc acknowledging your role in the decision to terminate the delphi pensions. yet there's a sense of how do w

going to win on this particular exemption that was clearly inappropriate in this instance, they'd unredact and you lose summary judgment. so in order to get your fees, you have to at least in the d.c. circuit you have to prove you're entitled to the fees. a case from last year said that, and so to prove that, you have to prove the agency's withholding was reasonable and to prove that you have to do another summary judgment brief. there you are going back and doing more litigation when really it should be the open government act says you should get fees so that's a problem. >> kel with a different application. >> yes, on to the, i thought you were going to talk about how they will say oh, yeah, we'll be happy to give you the records. it will cost you $20,000 for duplication and search fees. that's what i've been running into and a lot of requests have. you'll hear these horror stories in the web. there was a case out west somewhere, i want to say it was in iowa or something where a local government had filed a foia request to the post office about the closing of of the post office. they got

the late summer of 2011, wikileaks made news when someone--it's not clear who-- dumped 250,000 unredacted and classified state department and pentagon documents, which had been in wikileaks' possession, onto the internet. when we interviewed assange, he was already under investigation by the justice department for publishing classified material and possible violations of the espionage act. he was also under house arrest in britain, fighting extradition to sweden in connection with two sexual assault cases, which he has called part of a smear campaign against him. in what is still his most extensive television interview, assange talked to us about the idea behind wikileaks and the prospect of facing criminal charges in the united states. i mean, you've been called a lot of names. you've been characterized as a hero and as a villain, a martyr, terrorist. >> i'm not yet a martyr. >> right. >> let's keep it that way. >> for now, julian assange is holed up on this bucolic 600-acre english estate with an ankle bracelet, a 10:00 curfew, and a slow internet connection. he declined to talk to us a

and i hope the office of professional responsibility report will be released to a sinful in unredacted form so we can get to the bottom of this. of course, one of the prosecutors in this case did not have an opportunity to respond to your report, nicholas marsh, committed suicide did he not? >> he did although his counsel who was invited to submit a response and did so as a representative of mr. marsh's estate. the justice department has told us that the stevens case does not suggest a systemic problem with regards to prosecutors abusing their responsibilities to divulge exculpatory and other information required under brady and jig leo. how are we to be -- how can we possibly be satisfied with that representation and how do we know? how does any citizen no that the department of justice won't abide by similar prosecutorial misconduct in the future? >> first of all, i do not believe on the basis of our investigation that what happened in the stevens case is representative of what happens in cases brought by the thousands across this country by the department of justice. secondly, as se

i appreciate what judge sullivan has done here, particularly the release of this report unredacted. i hope the responsibility and report will be released in unredacted forms we can get to the bottom of this. of course, one of the prosecutors in this case did not have an opportunity to respond to your report, nicholas marsh committed suicide, did he not? >> heeded. although his counsel was invited to submit a response and did so as a representative of mr. marsh is a state. >> the justice department has told us that the stevens case does not suggest a systemic problem. with regards to prosecutors abusing their responsibilities to divulge exculpatory and other information required under brady and julio. how were we to be -- how can we be satisfied without representation? and how do we know? how does any citizen no that the department of justice won't abide by similar prosecutorial misconduct in the future? >> first of all, i do not believe on the basis of our investigation that would happen in the stevens case is representative of what happens in cases brought by the thousands across t

and throughout the ordeal, you've refused to answer questions, provided unredacted documents and peoplet what has occurred, where the tax dollars have gone. one of those issues, obviously, affects retirees, where 20,000 people across this country lost a significant portion of their profits, the three roles of the treasury, co-chair task force and benefit corporation picked winners and losers and our tax dollars were picked as losers. if you look at that hardship imposed on the retirees in the bailout -- >> we're in a back and forth between congressman and fed secretary bernanke and tim knee geithner. geithner saying, essential lease, they are not doing anything that would burden the u.s. tax dollars that would solve the european debt crisis. right now it's not in the cards that they would buy european sovereign debt. >> jeb bush has now endorsed mitt romney. there are major conservatives holding back and there were questions as to why they were holding back. mr. bush is calling now on the gop to unite and unite behind romney. let's take a break and we'll be back with more ben bernanke a