Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
10-22-2014, 09:31 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2013/05/20/shredding-the-constitution-obamas-attack-on-the-associated-press/
Shredding the Constitution: Obama’s attack on the media
By Jennifer Rubin
The president hasn’t attempted to distance himself from the Associated Press snooping campaign. To the contrary, he offered “no apologies.” To be blunt, he approves the most invasive breach of the First Amendment against any news organization in the history of the republic. No president has tried this and for good reason. We now have yet another media abuse story, in a way much more severe.
The Post breaks the story that the Obama administration indulged in excruciatingly invasive spying on James Rosen of Fox News and, in an unprecedented move, asserted that his newsgathering is criminal. The Post reports:
When the Justice Department began investigating possible leaks of classified information about North Korea in 2009, investigators did more than obtain telephone records of a working journalist suspected of receiving the secret material.
They used security badge access records to track the reporter’s comings and goings from the State Department, according to a newly obtained court affidavit. They traced the timing of his calls with a State Department security adviser suspected of sharing the classified report. They obtained a search warrant for the reporter’s personal e-mails.
Moreover, the FBI agent involved in his affidavit asserted “that there was evidence Rosen had broken the law, ‘at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator.’ That fact distinguishes his case from the probe of the AP, in which the news organization is not the likely target.” No administration has ever taken this stance.
Even before The Post story broke, the AP’s impressive chief executive, Gary Pruitt, went on “Face the Nation” to outline the media dragnet conducted on his editors and reporters. He explained that 21 phone lines were involved. “And these were phone lines for reporters, direct lines, cellphones, home phones. But also the office numbers, the main office numbers for AP offices in New York, Washington, the House of Representatives, and Hartford, Connecticut. So over a hundred — approximately a hundred journalists used these telephone lines as part of news gathering. And over the course of the two months of the records that they swept up, thousands and — upon thousands of news gathering calls were made.”
Least we forget the true Obama agenda and Obama's radicalized political philosophies.
Or the other many true scandals put on back burners by his current idiotic doings. --Tyr
Shredding the Constitution: Obama’s attack on the media
By Jennifer Rubin
The president hasn’t attempted to distance himself from the Associated Press snooping campaign. To the contrary, he offered “no apologies.” To be blunt, he approves the most invasive breach of the First Amendment against any news organization in the history of the republic. No president has tried this and for good reason. We now have yet another media abuse story, in a way much more severe.
The Post breaks the story that the Obama administration indulged in excruciatingly invasive spying on James Rosen of Fox News and, in an unprecedented move, asserted that his newsgathering is criminal. The Post reports:
When the Justice Department began investigating possible leaks of classified information about North Korea in 2009, investigators did more than obtain telephone records of a working journalist suspected of receiving the secret material.
They used security badge access records to track the reporter’s comings and goings from the State Department, according to a newly obtained court affidavit. They traced the timing of his calls with a State Department security adviser suspected of sharing the classified report. They obtained a search warrant for the reporter’s personal e-mails.
Moreover, the FBI agent involved in his affidavit asserted “that there was evidence Rosen had broken the law, ‘at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator.’ That fact distinguishes his case from the probe of the AP, in which the news organization is not the likely target.” No administration has ever taken this stance.
Even before The Post story broke, the AP’s impressive chief executive, Gary Pruitt, went on “Face the Nation” to outline the media dragnet conducted on his editors and reporters. He explained that 21 phone lines were involved. “And these were phone lines for reporters, direct lines, cellphones, home phones. But also the office numbers, the main office numbers for AP offices in New York, Washington, the House of Representatives, and Hartford, Connecticut. So over a hundred — approximately a hundred journalists used these telephone lines as part of news gathering. And over the course of the two months of the records that they swept up, thousands and — upon thousands of news gathering calls were made.”
Least we forget the true Obama agenda and Obama's radicalized political philosophies.
Or the other many true scandals put on back burners by his current idiotic doings. --Tyr