The Government is Spying on Journalists to Find Leakers

The New York Post (via Drudge) ^ | John Crudele

[be-baw]

".. The Justice Department has gotten a warrant from the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court — also known as the FISA court — to conduct electronic surveillance on a group of journalists who’ve been the recipient of leaked information, the source said."

[be-baw]

Good news. The press may be immune to prosecution for leaking, but it makes sense to use whatever resources are available to determine sources of leaks.

[TexasGator]

We have to be consistent.... UNKNOWN source ...

[Telepathic Intruder]

At least this is an actual crime that there is actual evidence for.

[ptsal]

Speed bump ahead.

Bezos blog headed for trouble.

Just make up a juicy story, like always.

[Bratch]

[dasboot]

So who leaked this story?;

[Signalman]

Who leaked THIS? Now these journalists and their criminal sources have been forewarned.

[Helicondelta]

“The press may be immune to prosecution for leaking”

They are not immune.

To publish classified information is a federal crime.

[TexasGator]

The ‘source’.

[DoughtyOne]

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[RitaOK]

Morning Joke with Mika/Joe is a good place to start, on MSNBC, who openly brag about their insider contacts in the White House, among Trump’s “closest aides”.

[semimojo]

Morning Joke with Mika/Joe is a good place to start, on MSNBC, who openly brag about their insider contacts in the White House, among Trump’s “closest aides”.

Their leaked gossip about WH dysfunction isn't classified.

[Paladin2]

That’s not what H-> says....

[Eric Blair 2084]

Next week in the New York Times and Washington Post it will be “sources close to someone’s ex-wife who used to work in the White House Who is married to a former aide’s niece Who knows their nanny says that Donald Trump tortures puppies and is responsible for the deaths of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman. Turns out OJ really was Innocent.”

Yawn

[af_vet_1981]

".. The Justice Department has gotten a warrant from the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court — also known as the FISA court — to conduct electronic surveillance on a group of journalists who’ve been the recipient of leaked information, the source said."

Not tired of winning, thanks be to God

[be-baw]

Some unknown sources are better than others. Some are true, others are misleading, at best. To discern between the true and the not-so-true is becoming an art form. I’d give this one at least a 51% of being true. YMMV

[seastay]

Such irony; these are the same journalists who refuse to report on the illegal spying on Americans by Obama. Now they get to see how they like it, with the difference they will be part of a legal and real actual crime investgstion as opposed to a fake one.

[be-baw]

“At least this is an actual crime that there is actual evidence for.”

Probably so. We shall see.

[be-baw]

“To publish classified information is a federal crime.”

The general consensus among reporters and politicians is publishing classified info is not a crime.