The Boeing 777 is a huge, hulking beast. And when you're trying to churn out 100 of them every year, there's only one way to pull it off: turn to the robots. These giant, spray-painting robot arms can coat one of the bird's mammoth wings in mere minutes.
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Europe's big freighter, the Albert Einstein ATV, has docked with the International Space Station (ISS).
The 20-tonne vehicle hooked onto the back of the 415km-high orbiting platform at 14:07 GMT.
It is carrying food, water, equipment and fuel for the six live-aboard astronauts on the ISS.
Albert Einstein will also provide some useful extra space during its four-month stay, and use its engines to push the platform higher into the sky.
The station has a tendency to drift back towards the Earth over time, and the European freighter with its powerful thrusters can provide an altitude boost.
European Space Agency (Esa) astronaut Luca Parmitano and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Misurkin sat in the rear of the station to watch Albert Einstein's approach.
They had the ability to command the vehicle to retreat if they had any concerns about its behaviour, but Albert Einstein performed flawlessly, docking over the Pacific Ocean just east of Japan.
The freighter - also known by its generic name of Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) - was launched from Europe's Kourou spaceport on an Ariane 5 on 5 June.
It is the fourth such vehicle produced by Esa and European industry. The cargo ships form part of the subscription Europe pays to belong to the ISS project.
One more vehicle is planned to fly next year before production ceases at Bremen, Germany.
The ATV assembly line will then be turned over to building a propulsion unit for US space agency's (Nasa) future crew ship, Orion.
This capsule will carry astronauts beyond the space station to destinations such as asteroids and Mars. It will need a "service module" to push it through space and Nasa has engaged Esa to adapt ATV technology for the purpose.
Albert Einstein will stay attached to the ISS until late October.
Astronauts will gradually remove its "Russian water", air and 2.5 tonnes of dry cargo, starting on Tuesday next week. It will all be replaced with rubbish that has built up on the platform.
When the freighter leaves the station, it will take this refuse on a destructive dive into the Earth's atmosphere.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22920823#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
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After rumor upon leak suggested Microsoft was cooking up a release of Office for iOS, you'd think its arrival would be celebrated with streamers and cake. Making a rather low-key entrance, the app is now available to those with a small-screen iOS device and an Office 365 subscription. You can create new Excel and Word files from scratch, or view and edit spreadsheets, docs and Powerpoint files stored on Microsoft's cloud services, or pinned to emails. Offline editing is also possible, as long as you've recently viewed or edited the file. You'll also be able to see any files you recently accessed at home if your computer is running Office 2013. You'll need an iPhone or iPod Touch running iOS 6.1 (there's no iPad version just yet), and the app is limited to the US at the moment, but head to the iTunes Store source link for the full feature list.
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Update: Check out our hands-on.
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Oakland Athletics left fielder Yoenis Cespedes flips over after missing a shallow fly ball off the bat of San Francisco Giants' Brandon Crawford as center fielder Coco Crisp (4) backs him up during the fifth inning of a baseball game in Oakland, Calif., Monday, May 27, 2013. (Tony Avelar / AP)
New York Yankees relief pitcher Mariano Rivera, left, laughs with former New York Mets closer John Franco after Franco caught Rivera's ceremonial first pitch before an interleague baseball game at Citi Field in New York, Tuesday, May 28, 2013. (Kathy Willens / AP)
Philadelphia Phillies center fielder Ben Revere (2) cannot catch a one-RBI triple hit by Washington Nationals' Adam LaRoche during the fifth inning of a baseball game at Nationals Park, Friday, May 24, 2013, in Washington. (Alex Brandon / AP)
Pittsburgh Pirates' Travis Snider, bottom, rolls into Houston Astros catcher Carlos Corporan after being tagged out trying to score from second on a single by Gaby Sanchez in the sixth inning of a baseball game on Sunday, May 19, 2013, in Pittsburgh. (Keith Srakocic / AP)
Auburn's Ryan Tella makes a diving catch in center field off the bat of Alabama's Mikey White during the second inning of a Southeastern Conference NCAA college baseball tournament in Hoover, Ala., Tuesday, May 21, 2013. (Dave Martin / AP)
Stanford players dump water over head coach Lele Forood's head as she gives an interview to Dave Kozlowski in the NCAA division 1 women's team tennis championship at the Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex Tuesday, May 21, 2013 on the University of Illinois campus in Urbana, Ill. Stanford defeated Texas A&M 4-3. (Stephen Haas / AP)
Arizona Diamondbacks first baseman Paul Goldschmidt, left, is robbed of a foul ball by a fan in the stands during the fifth inning of a baseball game, Sunday, May 19, 2013 in Miami. The Marlins defeated the Diamondbacks 2-1. (Wilfredo Lee / AP)
The car driven by Conor Daly slide down the track after hitting the wall in the first turn during practice for the Indianapolis 500 auto race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Thursday, May 16, 2013. Daly was not injured. (Joe Watts / AP)
Belgium's RSC Anderlecht coach John Van Den Brom, center, after winning the final soccer match of the Belgian League against SV Zulte Waregem at the Constant Vanden Stock stadium in Brussels, Sunday, May 19, 2013. (Yves Logghe / AP)
Floyd Mayweather Jr. lands a left jab against Robert Guerrero in the fourth round during a WBC welterweight title fight, Saturday, May 4, 2013, in Las Vegas. (Isaac Brekken / AP)
Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova casts a shadow while serving to Switzerland's Romina Oprandi during their Portugal Open semifinal tennis match Friday, May 3 2013, in Oeiras, outside Lisbon. Pavlyuchenkova defeated Oprandi 0-6, 6-3, 6-1. (Armando Franca / AP)
Saudi Al-Hilal club player Nawaf Shaker celebrates after scoring a goal against Qatar's Al-Rayyan club during their AFC Champions League football match in Doha, Qatar, Tuesday, April 30, 2013. (Osama Faisal / AP)
Oakland Athletics' Eric Sogard gets a shaving cream pie in the face from Josh Reddick, rear, after Sogard scored the winning run on a sacrifice bunt from Coco Crisp during 10th inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles, Sunday, April 28, 2013, in Oakland. Calif. Oakland won 9-8. (Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP)
Fans try to catch a bat that Arizona Diamondbacks' Cody Ross lost on his swing during the first inning of a baseball game against the San Francisco Giants, Tuesday, April 30, 2013, in Phoenix. (Matt York / AP)
A worker grooms away tracks after an alligator crossed through a sand trap on the 14th hole during the first round of the PGA Tour Zurich Classic golf tournament at TPC Louisiana in Avondale, La., Thursday, April 25, 2013. (Gerald Herbert / AP)
Philadelphia Phillies center fielder Ben Revere dives for a fly out by St. Louis Cardinals' Carlos Beltran during the first inning of a baseball game, Saturday, April 20, 2013, in Philadelphia. (Matt Slocum / AP)
In this photo made with a fisheye lens, Kevin Harvick celebrates winning the Toyota Owners 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race Saturday, April 27, 2013, at Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Va. (Jared C. Tilton / AP)
Sunderland's manager Paolo Di Canio, celebrates after Stephane Sessegnon scores his goal during their English Premier League soccer match against Newcastle United at St James' Park, Newcastle, England, Sunday, April 14, 2013. (Scott Heppell / AP)
San Diego Padres' Carlos Quentin charges into Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Zack Greinke after being hit by a pitch in the sixth inning of baseball game in San Diego, Thursday, April 11, 2013. (Lenny Ignelzi / AP)
San Diego Padres' Chris Denorfia breaks his bat as the ball flies foul during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers in San Diego, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. (Lenny Ignelzi / AP)
Michigan guard Trey Burke (3) walks off the court as Louisville celebrate their win during the second half of the NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball championship game Monday, April 8, 2013, in Atlanta. Louisville won 82-76. (Charlie Neibergall / AP)
Minnesota Twins' Brian Dozier, left, flips over after making a catch of a shallow fly ball off the bat of Los Angeles Angels' Peter Bourjos as right fielder Chris Parmelee watches in the first inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, April 16, 2013, in Minneapolis. (Jim Mone / AP)
Chicago Bulls forward Carlos Boozer reacts after a dunk during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Detroit Pistons in Chicago, Sunday, March 31, 2013. The Bulls won 95-94. (Nam Y. Huh / AP)
Baylor's Brittney Griner gestures as she answers a question during a news conference for a regional semifinal in the women's NCAA college basketball tournament in Oklahoma City, Saturday, March 30, 2013. Baylor is scheduled to play Louisville Sunday. (Sue Ogrocki / AP)
Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos loses the ball as New York Yankees' Eduardo Nunez slides safely into home with home plate umpire Adam Hamari looking on at right during the fourth inning of an exhibition baseball game at Nationals Park Friday, March 29, 2013, in Washington. (Alex Brandon / AP)
A young fan with his face painted with the colors of Chile's national flag gestures before the start of a 2014 World Cup qualifying soccer match against Uruguay in Santiago, Chile, Tuesday, March 26, 2013. (Victor R. Caivano / AP)
Serena Williams reacts after winning a point against Dominika Cibulkova, of Slovakia, during the Sony Open tennis tournament, Monday, March 25, 2013, in Key Biscayne, Fla. Williams won 2-6, 6-4, 6-2. (Lynne Sladky / AP)
Austria's Wolfgang Loitzl soars through the air during his competition jump of the third stage of the four hills ski jumping tournament during foggy weather in Innsbruck, Austria, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. (Matthias Schrader, AP)
Sweden's skip Margaretha Sigfridsson shouts during her gold medal game against Scotland at the 2013 world women's curling championship in Riga, Latvia, Sunday, March 24, 2013. (Roman Koksarov / AP)
Philadelphia Phillies center fielder Ben Revere makes a diving catch of Will Middlebrooks's seventh-inning fly ball in a spring training baseball game against the Boston Red Sox in Clearwater, Fla., Sunday, March 24, 2013. (Kathy Willens / AP)
North Carolina coach Roy Williams cheers on his team during the second half of a second-round game against Villanova in the NCAA college basketball tournament Friday, March 22, 2013, in Kansas City, Mo. (Charlie Riedel / AP)
North Carolina's Dexter Strickland (1) and Reggie Bullock (35) stretch before practice for a second-round game of the NCAA college basketball tournament, Thursday, March 21, 2013, in Kansas City, Mo. North Carolina is scheduled to play Villanova Friday. (Charlie Riedel / AP)
Michigan State guard Denzel Valentine (45) grabs a rebound over Valparaiso guard Matt Kenney (23) in the first half of a second-round game of the NCAA college basketball tournament in Auburn Hills, Mich., Thursday March 21, 2013. (Paul Sancya / AP)
Miami Marlins' Placido Polanco, left, scores on a double by Giancarlo Stanton as Washington Nationals catcher Kurt Suzuki, right, cannot hold on to the ball during the sixth inning of an exhibition spring training baseball game Wednesday, March 20, 2013, in Jupiter, Fla. The Nationals won 7-5. (Jeff Roberson / AP)
Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen, left, of Finland, Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, center, of Spain and Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel of Germany celebrate on the podium after the Australian Formula One Grand Prix at Albert Park in Melbourne, Australia, Sunday, March 17, 2013. Raikonen won the race with Alonso second and Vettel third. (Andrew Brownbill / AP)
Florida guard Mike Rosario (3) reacts after being fouled by Alabama during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in the semifinals of the Southeastern Conference tournament, Saturday, March 16, 2013, in Nashville, Tenn. (John Bazemore / AP)
In this photo taken with a fisheye lens, Boston Bruins' Nathan Horton, left, celebrates a goal by Andrew Ference against Washington Capitals goalie Michal Neuvirth (30) during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Boston, Saturday, March 16, 2013. The Bruins won 4-1. (Winslow Townson / AP)
Utah's Jason Washburn celebrates after blocking a shot by California in overtime during a Pac-12 men's tournament NCAA college basketball game, Thursday, March 14, 2013, in Las Vegas. Utah won 79-69. (Julie Jacobson / AP)
San Diego Padres shortstop Tyler Stubblefield misses a ground ball hit by Kansas City Royals' Orlando Calixte for a double in the ninth inning in an exhibition spring training baseball game Friday, March 15, 2013, in Surprise, Ariz. (Gregory Bull / AP)
Miami's Kenny Kadji (35) tries to go over Illinois' D.J. Richardson for a shot during the first half of a third-round game of the NCAA college basketball tournament Sunday, March 24, 2013, in Austin, Texas. (David J. Phillip / AP)
Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat, of France, perform during a practice session for the World Figure Skating Championships, Tuesday, March 12, 2013, in London, Ontario. (Darron Cummings / AP)
Alexa Scimeca and Chris Knierim, of the United States, react as they watch their scores during the pairs free program at the World Figure Skating Championships Friday, March 15, 2013, in London, Ontario. (Darron Cummings / AP)
St. Louis Cardinals' J.R. Towles (46) reacts after fouling a ball off his foot as New York Yankees catcher Chris Stewart watches in the third inning of a spring training baseball game in Tampa, Fla., Monday, March 11, 2013. (Kathy Willens / AP)
Auburn forward Cabriana Capers (35) crashes into the scorer's table after saving the ball from going out of bounds during the second half of their NCAA college basketball game against LSU in the Southeastern Conference tournament, Thursday, March 7, 2013, in Duluth, Ga. LSU won 65-62. (John Bazemore / AP)
Chicago Bulls' Joakim Noah (13) drives to the basket as San Antonio Spurs' Tim Duncan, right, defends during the first half of an NBA basketball game on Wednesday, March 6, 2013, in San Antonio. (Eric Gay / AP)
Athletes start the New Zealand Ironman on March 2, 2013 in Taupo, New Zealand. (Phil Walter / Getty Images)
David Villa of FC Barcelona duels for a high ball with Fabio Coentrao and Pepe (R) of Real Madrid CF during the La Liga match between Real Madrid CF and FC Barcelona at Bernabeu on March 2, 2013 in Madrid, Spain. (David Ramos / Getty Images)
Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant, right, is smacked on the head by Atlanta Hawks forward Josh Smith as he puts up a shot during the first half of their NBA basketball game, Sunday, March 3, 2013, in Los Angeles. (Mark J. Terrill / AP)
Jason Porplyzia of the Crows attempts to take a mark on the shoulders of Corey Enright of the Cats during the round two AFL NAB Cup match between the Geelong Cats and the Adelaide Crows at Simonds Stadium on March 2, 2013 in Geelong, Australia. (Scott Barbour / Getty Images)
Columbus Blue Jackets' Nick Foligno, right, fights with Chicago Blackhawks' Sheldon Brookbank during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Chicago, Friday, March 1, 2013. (Nam Y. Huh / AP)
To launch the release of Nitro Circus 3D : The Movie, available on DVD 25th March, Team Nitro Circus sets a Guinness World Record at 02 Arena on February 28, 2013 in London, England. (Clive Rose / Getty Images)
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FLIGHT OF FANCY: Gustave Whitehead, aviation pioneer, with one of his many aircraft designs. There is no substantiated record of Whitehead ever flying any of his own powered airplanes over any substantial distance. Credit: Scientific American, June 8, 1901 Image: SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, SEPTEMBER 19, 1903
There is no doubt the prolific Gustave Whitehead deserves an honorable mention in the Hall of Aviation Pioneers. He built dozens of aircraft and workable gliders as well as several lightweight gasoline-powered engines, and Scientific American frequently mentioned his work. But was he ?first in flight?? No. Those honors go to the brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright, who completed the first powered, man-carrying, controlled flight of more than a few meters in the first decade of the 20th century.
The Wright Brothers have many critics. I am one of them. They achieved one of humanity?s oldest dreams and unlocked the mystery of flight. Then they tried to hoard this treasure for years, combining secrecy with lawsuits against other aviation pioneers, strangling progress in an era when flying and aeronautics was flourishing?such bad behavior. Scientific American was an early critic of the secretive Wright Brothers, too. We covered the Wright glider experiments in an article of February 22, 1902, but the powered flights of the following few years were met with skepticism. On January 13, 1906, we huffed:
?If such sensational and tremendously important experiments are being conducted in a not very remote part of the country, on a subject in which almost everybody feels the most profound interest, is it possible to believe that the enterprising American reporter, who, it is well known, comes down the chimney when the door is locked in his face?even if he has to scale a fifteen-story sky-scraper to do so?would not have ascertained all about them and published them broadcast long ago??
Now the State of Connecticut has decided that the Wrights were truly not first in flight. Substitute House Bill 6671, offered by Rep. Lawrence Miller of the 122nd District, in the ?Plain English? analysis, ?specifies that Powered Flight Day is in honor of the first powered flight by Gustave Whitehead, rather than the Wright Brothers.? The bill also establishes ?the Ballroom Polka as the state polka? and ?Beautiful Connecticut Waltz, composed by Joseph Leggo, as the second state song??so perhaps Mr. Leggo will regard this first- and second-place revisionism with more alarm than I do.
Many people say that the Wright Brothers were not first in flight. These critics are correct. Joseph-Michel and Jacques-?tienne Montgolfier of France were responsible for the first manned flight in history, in 1783, with the invention of a practical hot-air balloon.
Perhaps the important aspect of all this is not flight, per se, but powered flight. Very well, then Alberto Santos-Dumont, a Brazilian living in Paris, ?the father of aviation,? is the holder of those laurels. On October 19, 1901, Santos-Dumont flew his gasoline-powered dirigible around the Eiffel Tower in Paris. A dirigible is an airship. A big bag of gas.
Flight means fixed wings, to some. Then the English can proudly offer George Cayley, who developed a glider that carried a 10-year-old boy in 1849 and an adult?perhaps Cayley?s coachman?in 1853. (Apparently, the coachman quit right after the flight.)
Controllable flight? Otto Lilienthal of Germany might win those laurels for his multiple glider flights, even though lack of control caused his death from a glider accident in 1896.
Powered, heavier-than-air flight of any substantial distance? Samuel Langley of the U.S. did that way back in 1896 with his steam-powered Aerodrome, which flew for ?about a kilometer. It was an unpiloted model.
Powered, heavier-than-air, man-carrying flight. For this most important multi-adjective title, many contenders are trotted out by their partisan supporters, and they all claim to have beaten the Wright Brothers into the air. Here are some of them: Clement Ader!, say the French. His purported 20-centimeter altitude and 50-meter distance seems worthy of a footnote, but not laurels. Richard Pearse of New Zealand, who crashed into a spiny gorse hedge. Karl Jatho of Germany. Augustus Moore Herring of Michigan. Powered ?flights? all. Hops of only a handful of meters. Is that flight? To those readers who are from France, New Zealand, Germany, Michigan?apparently yes.
The State of Connecticut, however, is keen to legislate its way to the front of the pack. Their decision is partly based on a very fuzzy photograph recently unearthed by aviation historian John Brown of Australia in Bavaria and dated to 1906. It purports to show an aircraft in flight in 1901. ?Or a frog? as one wag commenting on CNN?s report put it. The photo in question is too fuzzy to show pilot or motor or a towline or Whitehead, and could easily be a glider. (Scientific American has images of Whitehead piloting a glider?an unpowered airplane.) Or it could be a frog making a hop. But why quibble?
The main evidence in favor of a Whitehead flight is a newspaper article from the Bridgeport Herald, published on Sunday, August 18, 1901, about an airplane flight from Fairfield, Conn. There is a quote from Whitehead, supposedly on how he felt while flying: ?I never felt such a strange sensation as when the machine first left the ground and started on her flight. I heard nothing but the rumbling of the engine and the flapping of the big wings.? Flapping? Really? That design is called an ornithopter and is a very unusual design for a man-carrying aircraft. Whitehead was a prolific builder and inventor, but no working airplanes exist (apart from reengineered, redesigned ones reconstructed by those in the Whitehead camp). The consensus on the article is that it was an interesting work of fiction, written as such, and not intended to be a serious report on flight research. The sentiment is echoed by the 1937 affidavit from James Dickie, who was listed by the Bridgeport Herald as being present at the flight: ?I believe the entire story in the Herald was imaginary, and grew out of the comments of Whitehead in discussing what he hoped to get from his plane.?
Gustave Whitehead in flight at an altitude of four meters with the motive power provided by a brawny assistant. It does classify as flight, but perhaps not the ?flight? referred to by the Connecticut Legislature. Credit: Scientific American, September 19, 1903
But real, powered, man-carrying, controlled, long-distance flight? That honor still belongs to the Wright Brothers. But not for their feeble flights of 1903. On October 5, 1905, at Huffman Prairie near Dayton, Ohio, Wilbur Wright flew the modified Wright Flyer III for 38 kilometers. Now that is a flight. The Flyer III is the first fixed-wing aircraft to be designated a National Historic Landmark. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers honors the Flyer III as ?the first practical airplane.?
The fact that the 1905 flight was in Ohio does beg the question, however, of why North Carolina claims to be ?First in Flight?? Perhaps the legislatures of those two states need to duke it out. Oh wait...Duke is in North Carolina...
For readers who would like to read some of the original stories on aviation from our magazine, take a look at ?The Birth of Flight,? part of the Scientific American Classics series, available for purchase here.
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By Ayesha Rascoe and Valerie Volcovici
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Delays in approval of more natural gas export projects are costing U.S. companies millions of dollars a day and giving a leg up to rival countries also looking to boost exports, the chief of Exxon Mobil Corp
The comments by Exxon's Rex Tillerson came hours after new U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz told lawmakers he hopes to "expeditiously" begin evaluating the more than a dozen applications awaiting approval to export liquefied natural gas (LNG).
"It's a very competitive marketplace. It's not like people are just going to stand at our door like panting dogs just waiting for us to give this (LNG) to them," Tillerson said while answering questions after an event at the Asia Society focused on Asian energy security.
Tillerson said he left a meeting with Moniz on Wednesday with no clear idea of when the company's Golden Pass LNG project - a $10 billion joint venture with Qatar Petroleum - would be approved.
"I don't want to start on this process if you tell me it's going to take five years for you to get around to my application," Tillerson said.
U.S. companies need authorization from the Department of Energy to export gas to all but a handful of countries with free trade agreements. Japan and India are among the countries keen to gain access to U.S. supplies.
The Energy Department ended a two-year freeze in reviewing liquefied natural gas (LNG) export applications in May, when it approved gas exports to all countries from Freeport LNG's terminal in Texas.
Shortly after that move Moniz, who was sworn in on May 21, said he would undertake a thorough review of the gas export review process, promising to ensure that current data was being used to make these decisions.
At his first appearance at a Congressional panel since his swearing-in, Moniz told lawmakers at a House Energy and Commerce committee hearing on Thursday the review should wrap up soon.
"We're getting ready to begin evaluating the dockets on a case-by-case basis," Moniz said. There would "absolutely" be additional decisions this year, he added, without giving a more specific time frame.
Companies have lined up to export excess gas produced from the nation's shale boom. The gas can fetch higher prices abroad.
Other backers of proposed export projects include Dominion Resources Inc
Some lawmakers and a group of manufacturers led by Dow Chemical Co
(Reporting by Ayesha Rascoe and; Valerie Volcovici; Editing by Ros Krasny, Gerald E. McCormick, Sofina Mirza-Reid and Andre Grenon)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/exxon-ceo-says-delays-gas-export-permits-hurt-231444084.html
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In response to criticism of the Department of Justice's secret surveillance of and seizure of records from reporters, Eric Holder will testify on Thursday that no reporters have been or will be prosecuted for doing their job during his service as attorney general.
"The Department has not prosecuted, and as long as I?m Attorney General, will not prosecute any reporter for doing his or her job," Holder will say at a Senate budget hearing on Thursday morning, according to his prepared remarks. "With these guiding principles in mind, we are updating our internal guidelines to ensure that in every case the Department?s actions are clear and consistent with our most sacred values."
Holder is set to appear before the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science to discuss the Justice Department's FY 2014 budget proposed by President Barack Obama.
But Holder's role as head of a department that secretly monitored Fox News reporter James Rosen and seized the phone records of The Associated Press, as well as a report Wednesday from the Guardian that the administration is secretly gathering phone records from Verizon customers, are expected to factor prominently into questioning by members of Congress.
Holder faces criticism from Republicans over testimony he made before a House committee last month that he has never been involved in "potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material" even though media reports indicate the search warrant application for Rosen's private emails was approved ?at the highest levels? of the Justice Department, including through ?discussions? with Holder.
Holder plans on Thursday to defend his review of the Justice Department's leak investigation policies?which Obama directed Holder to undertake?citing a desire to protect the freedom of the press amid concerns about a potential chilling effect this type of surveillance could have on journalism.
He plans to say that he appreciates "the opportunity to engage members of the media and national security professionals in this effort to improve our guidelines, policies and processes?and to renew the important conversation, that is as old as our Republic, about how to balance our security with our dearest civil liberties."
Holder last week invited multiple Washington bureau chiefs to meet with him to discuss the issue, but many refused due to the meetings' off-the-record status.
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