Are we witnessing the fall of the Fourth Reich?
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Gonna be fun to watch the press on this one.... they are in a box.
They could start with Obama's background. How about finally vetting Obama for starters? What do you mean he's off limits? Dude, he just stole your phone records! What will it take?
Let’s see the press defend this one!!!!!
The entire Obama Gestapo needs to be run outta Dodge!!
Dear Leader learned their lesson well.
Will there be enough time and congressmen to investigate this bottomless sewer of one scandal after another?
Watch for him to declare Benghazi "classified."
Are we witnessing the fall of the Fourth Reich?
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch of people
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Records for April and May 2012; what was going on then?
It does not appear that this includes tapping the phones - it appears that this was just gathering the call records. That is, what numbers were called by the reporters, what numbers called them, how long the calls lasted, etc. And that is bad enough...
The records obtained by the Justice Department listed incoming and outgoing calls, and the duration of each call, for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and the main number for AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP.
In all, the government seized those records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. The exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period is unknown but more than 100 journalists work in the offices whose phone records were targeted on a wide array of stories about government and other matters.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/govt-obtains-wide-ap-phone-records-probe
The government would not say why it sought the records.
U.S. officials have previously said in public testimony that the U.S. attorney in Washington is conducting a criminal investigation into who may have leaked information contained in a May 7, 2012, AP story about a foiled terror plot.
In the letter notifying the AP received Friday, the Justice Department offered no explanation for the seizure
Among those whose phone numbers were obtained were five reporters and an editor who were involved in the May 7, 2012 story.
News organizations normally are notified in advance that the government wants phone records and enter into negotiations over the desired information. In this case, however, the government, in its letter to the AP, cited an exemption to those rules that holds that prior notification can be waived if such notice, in the exemption’s wording, might “pose a substantial threat to the integrity of the investigation.”
It is unknown whether a judge or a grand jury signed off on the subpoenas.
OK, NOW can we have a Woodward and Bernstien and an impeachment? Obama is 10 times worse than Nixon ever dreamed of on his worst day.
Now wait a minute. How are we suppose to keep track of all these crimes? Is there a computer program for this? ;-)
If the idiots in the media don’t go ballistic over this, they are completely lost. If there is one things EVERY journalist in our lifetime has protected tooth and nail it is the confidentiality of sources. Many have gone to jail to defend this core of the profession.
So, do the folks at AP and the rest of the media want to keep kissing up to the crack, or are they going to wake up and realize they are under the gun, too?
Drip, Drip, Drip...
I'm sure there's more!