Certainly it is news when the Attorney General recites erroneous statistics, but the fact that his Department admitted to such a mistake last week would normally be in his, and its, favor.
But just as clearly, one can't go back into history and change what someone said, in public, at a news conference. Nonetheless, this is, in fact, what the Department of Justice just did.
The DOJ insists that in short order there will be a disclaimer on the Holder-speech page to match the disclaimer on the press-release page (UPDATE: the disclaimer is now up). As to the other obvious question, whether this is the first time this sort of history-fixing thing has been done, I'm working on that. At best, it's a pretty weird little story.
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