QOTWeek

If not the whole year.

Attorney General Holder called a press conference to talk about the Just Us departments recent aggressive behavior toward some in the media who had been less than complimentary toward the president. The terms were that the conference was to be "off the record" which meant that nothing said there could be quoted.

Most of the invited media, seeing the department's recent behavior as being potentially newsworthy, immediately declined. Some attended, possibly thinking that if the department doesn't have to keep its word, then neither would they. An agreement was worked out by which the attendees would be permitted to describe in general terms what went down. The headline:

Washington Post: The Justice Department has allowed us to say AG Holder supports press freedom.

You can't make this stuff up.

RTWT at the Washington Post.