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Journos send scathing letter to Holder on AP spying
ConservativeIntel.com ^ | 5/14/13 | David Freddoso

Posted on 05/14/2013 7:02:17 PM PDT by The Old Hoosier

The Reporters’ Committee for Freedom of the Press — a body that includes a number of prominent journalists — has sent a scathing letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Deputy AG James Cole regarding the Justice Department’s secret seizure of AP employees’ office, home and cell phone records during a leak investigation.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: ap

1 posted on 05/14/2013 7:02:17 PM PDT by The Old Hoosier
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To: The Old Hoosier

A scathing letter! That’ll show him.


2 posted on 05/14/2013 7:04:07 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: gorush

they first had to get out of each others way after they were finished licking Obama’s... boots.


3 posted on 05/14/2013 7:05:35 PM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: The Old Hoosier

Hey dummy MSM news readers, this the only one that they were caught on!!!! But then, there isn’t a whole lot of “investigative reporting” going on.


4 posted on 05/14/2013 7:05:35 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (You don't have to be stupid to become a Progressive, but it does speed up the process.)
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To: The Old Hoosier
Scathing letter? That'll show him!

Did they stamp their foot at him, too? (collectively).

5 posted on 05/14/2013 7:09:20 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: The Old Hoosier

I read the letter and glanced through the organizations that signed on to it. I didn’t notice Fox News Network on there.


6 posted on 05/14/2013 7:15:26 PM PDT by MNGal
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“[T]he Department has severely harmed its working relationship with the news media, which time and time again have undertaken good-faith efforts to cooperate with government lawyers

And everybody else. Yeah, we noticed. All of that butt-kissing didn't help much, did it? Here - this train is bound for the camps but you get to sit First Class. Congratulations.

It [the Department] should immediately return the telephone toll records obtained and destroy all copies, as requested by The Associated Press.

Hey, no problem. Here they are. You can trust the guys who did this to be honest enough to destroy them. Like they can be trusted to destroy all those firearms sales records, right? That's what you told us, right?

Clearly what we have here is a serious fissure in the Ruling Class between those who have the power and those who were stupid enough to believe all that malarkey about it being shared with journalists interested in Making A Difference and Changing The World. They aren't special people. They fit into the prison camp uniforms like everybody else.

And who will the ink-stained wretches turn to for protection? Wouldn't be the poor rubes they held in contempt for clinging bitterly to guns and the Bible, would it? Best of luck with that boys. As far as I'm concerned, you're on your own.

7 posted on 05/14/2013 7:16:01 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: The Old Hoosier

These morons think they’re the best and brightest... but Lenin said “Intellectuals aren’t the brains of the revolution, they’re it’s s**t.”


8 posted on 05/14/2013 7:16:05 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: gorush

Yup. Like I said on the post about the AP President’s letter, the next thing will be *GASP* THE COMFY CHAIR!


9 posted on 05/14/2013 7:22:59 PM PDT by Severa (I can't take this stress anymore...quick, get me a marker to sniff....)
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Dear Mr. Holder,

You and your boss are bullies! Please stop.
Sincerely,

-The Press

P.S. Lunch money on the way. Be there in 1-3 days.

10 posted on 05/14/2013 7:30:48 PM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
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To: The Old Hoosier

Why didn’t they send it to the President? All he knows is what he reads in the newspapers so he might appreciate another source of information.


11 posted on 05/14/2013 7:31:02 PM PDT by DManA
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HA...you just gave me an idea....we should get a nat’l campaign with millions of people sending letters to the “O” with news reports....since he seems to have NO KNOWLEDGE of anything....we’ll be doing him a service.


12 posted on 05/14/2013 7:36:05 PM PDT by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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The Barry News Service. I like it (even if I did kind of think it up).


13 posted on 05/14/2013 7:38:58 PM PDT by DManA
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14 posted on 05/14/2013 7:46:35 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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Impeachment File for B. Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, a legal citizen of the sovereign Nation of Indonesia.


15 posted on 05/14/2013 7:51:19 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: The Old Hoosier

I’ll bet they all got together and called Holder a gunky.


16 posted on 05/14/2013 8:00:54 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you think ObamaCare is a train wreck, wait until you see the amnesty bill.)
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To: The Old Hoosier

“Strongly worded letter to follow.....”


17 posted on 05/14/2013 8:04:07 PM PDT by citizen (We get the government we choose. America either voted for Obama or handed it to him by not voting.)
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To: The Old Hoosier

Follow me here, but could this all be somewhat staged to give the appearance that the mainstream media isn’t on 0bama’s side after the embarrassment of Benghazi showing them to have clearly been covering for 0bama? Makes sense?


18 posted on 05/14/2013 8:18:52 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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I think Holder let out some news today that AP isn’t the only news org that’s been bugged...


19 posted on 05/15/2013 12:59:17 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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