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Obama DoJ Broke into FNC Rossen's email.
1 posted on 05/20/2013 6:54:21 AM PDT by Perdogg
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RE :”Now we know that the DOJ is doing exactly that: applying this theory to criminalize the acts of journalists who report on what the US government does in secret, even though there is no law that makes such reporting illegal and the First Amendment protects such conduct. Essentially accusing James Rosen of being an unindicted co-conspriator in these alleged crimes is a major escalation of the Obama DOJ’s already dangerous attacks on press freedom.
It is virtually impossible at this point to overstate the threat posed by the Obama DOJ to press freedoms. Back in 2006, Bush Attorney General Alberto Gonzales triggered a major controversy when he said that the New York Times could be prosecuted for having revealed the Top Secret information that the NSA was eavesdropping on the communications of Americans without warrants. That was at the same time that right-wing demagogues such Bill Bennett were calling for the prosecution of the NYT reporters who reported on the NSA program, as well as the Washington Post's Dana Priest for having exposed the CIA black site network.
But despite those public threats, the Bush DOJ never went so far as to formally accuse journalists in court filings of committing crimes for reporting on classified information. Now the Obama DOJ has. “

Seems like the MSM should be picking up the ball and running with this one.

To get the surveillance Justice dept said the reporter broke the law yet no charges brought against him, since he did nothing illegal to charge him with.

28 posted on 05/20/2013 7:35:23 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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To: Perdogg
It's entirely within the realm of possibility that Sally Sweelies

Will go full abused wife and decide she really really likes S&M, bondage and very, very, very rough sex from her government masters.

32 posted on 05/20/2013 7:41:02 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of opression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: Perdogg

Did they get a FISA warrant or not? There are processes of getting approvals to do these things ... Legally. If they did not then all involved should be fired and prosecuted.


36 posted on 05/20/2013 7:48:21 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: Perdogg

I encourage FReepers to read the whole article. This isn’t about just Fox News and James Rosen. It’s about the 1st amendment. What the Obama/Holder DOJ is doing goes far beyond anything that has ever been done before.

It makes me wonder at what point the lamestream media went from refusing to report on Obama because he was their Messiah to being afraid to do so. Will they stand with Fox News again as they did when the WH wanted to exclude Fox from those interviews?


41 posted on 05/20/2013 8:03:27 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes

Okay. Let's see. The journalist should just invoke one of his 'Eric Holder' defenses .....

I didn't know anything about this.

I recused myself.

I had to do this since otherwise it would put the American people at risk.

42 posted on 05/20/2013 8:04:48 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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Here’s the thing...
These tactics might be understandable if the government were actually trying to locate someone who was leaking national security information, you know, actual ‘spy stuff.’ Like, say, publishing classified details of an effort to find international terrorists. (I’m looking you, New York Times.) But what we have here is the government trying to figure out who is exposing its inner secrets.

In other words, this isn’t a case of a government trying to protect the country.
This is a government trying to protect itself.


46 posted on 05/20/2013 8:14:21 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: Perdogg; All

Socialism 101- If you can’t silence the opposition, YOU JAIL THEM....
Welcome to the new paradigm.

After all, it IS what the TV told the sheeple to vote for.

Yet ANOTHER parallel to 1930’s Germany comes to life.


49 posted on 05/20/2013 8:27:59 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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I got question is Obama that nut going after Fox news reporter

We talk about News Corp they got dirt on everybody look at Brit papers they got dirt on everybody

That Murdoch main bread and butter

UK Papers


56 posted on 05/20/2013 8:44:22 AM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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So, the Obama DOJ, in order to cover and justify their crimes, is now going to prosecute the journalists?

Fine...they are simply going to alienate the people who have been covering for Obama for so long and maybe now a few of them will actually be motivated to be real journalists instead of cheerleaders.

They have plenty of opportunities...a traget rich environment:

- Presidential order telling his Justice Department to not procesute or investigate Defense of Marriage Act violations.

- Department of Justice simply dropping the voter intimidation case against New Black Panther hoods who were filmed committing voter intimidation in 2008.

- Fast and Furious - Murdergate.

- The downing of the Navy SEAL helicopter in Afghanistan where 22 SEALs were killed on an out-of-date non SPECOPS hhelo that was sent into a known Taliban ambush without escort, and with every SEAL on a single helo.

- Gun running to Syrian Al Queda rebels.

- Benghazi consulate and safe house attack and murder of the US Ambassador, a State Department specialist and two Navy SEALs.

- The IRS intentional intimidation of conservative organizations.

- This issue of the Obama administration tapping journalists phone conversations without notification or a legal warrant.

etc., etc., etc.

Barack Hussein Obama is an Abject MArxist Ideolog
http://www.jeffhead.com/obama-time.htm

Who Really is BArack Hussein Obama?
http://www.jeffhead.com/whoisobama.htm


57 posted on 05/20/2013 8:45:00 AM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: Perdogg

Obama DoJ Broke into FNC Rossen’s email.

Did Piers Morgan consult with DoJ on how to go about it?


61 posted on 05/20/2013 8:52:17 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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This is a pretty long, convoluted article, but it is, imo, a must read. The Ozero administration has literally criminalized the act of journalism. Reporters of all ideological stripes, from the NY Times to Fox News, are being indicted by Ozero’s DOJ and will be facing jail time.

This is a huge scandal that has the potential to align most of the entire media against the Ozero thugocracy.


62 posted on 05/20/2013 8:58:43 AM PDT by lonevoice (Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)
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Propaganda.

Was Rosen indicted or not?

Obama could be indicted under the very same Espionage Act, so could Holder.


65 posted on 05/20/2013 9:21:08 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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ping.


68 posted on 05/20/2013 9:30:35 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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James Rossen or James Risen the old pro-Palestinian anti-Israel NY Times reporter?


69 posted on 05/20/2013 9:32:54 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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It is now well known that the Obama justice department has prosecuted more government leakers under the 1917 Espionage Act than all prior administrations combined - in fact, double the number of all such prior prosecutions.

Of course. These investigations give the Obabma administration an excuse to behave like the Stasi.

71 posted on 05/20/2013 9:34:41 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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This guy? If it's this guy then this is all a sham to cover Benghazi for sure.

JANUARY 6, 2006 : (JAMES RISEN BOOK COMES OUT CALLED "STATE OF WAR : THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE CIA AND THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION" -------- See "WARRANTLESS" WIRETAPPING, SAWSAN ALHADDAD [JOHN KERRY DONOR], CLEVELAND CELL)

72 posted on 05/20/2013 9:35:39 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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The article is worth the read. They essentially fabricated criminal behavior in order to get the warrant to search his personal emails.


74 posted on 05/20/2013 9:48:38 AM PDT by Wendy44
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Jay Leno's latest jokes must have been the final straw for the Obama administration so they put on their big girl panties and accuse a Fox News reporter of a leak. Next thing you know they'll send in the IRS to audit conservatives.

*Nah, couldn't happen in America*

76 posted on 05/20/2013 9:49:55 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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Shannon Bream on now talking about additional tracking on William LaJueness (sp?) and a producer.


78 posted on 05/20/2013 10:04:19 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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