Posted on 11/12/2018 7:31:49 AM PST by COUNTrecount
Democrats will probe Donald Trump's treatment of CNN, Amazon and The Washington Post in a 'triple-threaded' abuse-of-power inquiry in January
California democrat Adam Schiff said he will investigate Trump's possible use of the 'instruments of state power to punish the press' in January
Schiff is the incoming chairman of the House Intelligence Committee
He said he will investigate Trump's dealings with Amazon and an attempt to block AT&T’s merger with Time Warner to 'punish' his media rival CNN
The Democrats plan to investigate Donald Trump for an alleged abuse of authority for taking adverse action against retail giant Amazon and two of his left-leaning media rivals.
California representative Adam Schiff said he will employ committee subpoena powers to conduct a triple-threaded inquiry into Trump's possible use of the 'instruments of state power to punish the press'.
Schiff will take over as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee when the Democrats officially take control of the House in January.
The president signed an executive order earlier this year mandating a review of what he called the 'unsustainable financial path' of the United States Postal Service (USPS).
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Probe away. Dems might want to keep in mind there’s a new AG.
Good. Sign-up to defend a rogues gallery that’s generally loathed and hated by the American public.
Why don’t you guys defend Comcast while you’re at it?
OFFS! In my book, not that my book matters, that’s called fraud waste and abuse.
Yes, Dems, that’s what you were elected to do, probe, probe, probe away!...........Eventually, that ‘probe’ will turn on you or turn you on.................
Is Schiff including Obama's punishing the press, as well (smirk)?
REMEMBER THIS, ADAM?---At his recent comeback appearance, Obama lacerated Pres Trump, saying: " I complained plenty about Fox News, but you never heard me call them enemies of the people.” (Source —--comeback rally at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).
REALITY CHECK----N-o-o-o-o, Obama didnt do that....he just unleashed the full force of the DOJ, in the person of AG Eric Holder, to pounce on Fox reporter James Rosen AND to intimidate Rosen's family. Holder and Obama issued a court order for Fox News reporter James Rosen's emails, that labeled Rosen a criminal "co-conspirator." More likely Fox News said things or published stories Obama didn't like.......or got too close to unveiling his criminality.
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SOURCE theguardian.com
Circa 2013
Obama and AG Holder did more than seize a Fox News reporter’s emails while suggesting he was a criminal “co-conspirator” in a leak case — it did so under one of the most serious wartime laws in America, the Espionage Act. 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.
But as the controversy over the Obama and Holder’s pursuit of the phone records of AP reporters illustrated, this obsessive fixation in defense of secrecy also targets, and severely damages, journalists specifically and the news-gathering process in general.
New revelations emerged yesterday in the Washington Post that are perhaps the most extreme yet when it comes to the DOJ’s attacks on press freedoms. It involves the prosecution of State Department adviser Stephen Kim, a naturalized citizen from South Korea who was indicted in 2009 for allegedly telling Fox News’ chief Washington correspondent, James Rosen, that US intelligence believed North Korea would respond to additional UN sanctions with more nuclear tests - something Rosen then reported. Kim did not obtain unauthorized access to classified information, nor steal documents, nor sell secrets, nor pass them to an enemy of the US.
Instead, the DOJ alleges that he merely communicated this innocuous information to a journalist - something done every day in Washington - and, for that, this arms expert and long-time government employee faces more than a decade in prison for “espionage”.
The focus of a Post report is that the Obama DOJ’s surveillance of Rosen extended far beyond even what Obama did to AP reporters. The FBI tracked Rosen’s movements in and out of the State Department, traced the timing of his calls, and - most amazingly - obtained a search warrant to read two days worth of his emails, as well as all of his emails with Kim. In this case, said the Post, “investigators did more than obtain telephone records of a working journalist suspected of receiving the secret material.” It added that “court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist”.
But what makes this revelation particularly disturbing is that Obama's DOJ, in order to get this search warrant, insisted that Fox's Rosen - a journalist - committed serious crimes. The DOJ specifically argued that by encouraging his source to disclose classified information - something investigative journalists do every day - Rosen himself broke the law.
Describing an affidavit from FBI agent Reginald Reyes filed by the DOJ, the Post reports [emphasis added]: “Reyes wrote 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. Using italics for emphasis, Reyes explained how Rosen allegedly used a ‘covert communications plan’ and quoted from an e-mail exchange between Rosen and Kim that seems to describe a secret system for passing along information. . . .
However, it remains an open question whether it’s ever illegal, given the First Amendment’s protection of press freedom, for a reporter to solicit information. No reporter, including Rosen, has been prosecuted for doing so.” Under US law, it is not illegal to publish classified information. That fact, along with the First Amendment’s guarantee of press freedoms, is what has prevented the US government from ever prosecuting journalists for reporting on what the US government does in secret. This newfound theory of the Obama DOJ - that a journalist can be guilty of crimes for “soliciting” the disclosure of classified information - is a means for circumventing those safeguards and criminalizing the act of investigative journalism itself.
These latest revelations show that this is not just a theory but one put into practice, as the Obama and Holder submitted official court documents accusing a journalist of committing crimes by doing this. ---Snip---
Obama and Holder wouldnt lie to a court of law. Would they?
The dems never looked into bammy’s illegal dealings with iran.
This is why putting Pelosi in charge of the House - and showing her wacky statements on TV as much as possible - will insure Trump’s reelection.
It’s prima facie evidence that the media are Commiecrat co-conspirators and accomplices. Why else would they do this?
And we can also add CBS Investigative (real) Journalist Sharyl Attkinson to the list of targeted members of the Press. While her hacked computer (2012) was confirmed by a security firm, the actual source of the attack was never confirmed except for the suspicious propinquity to this Rosen issue.
California democrat Adam Schiff said he will investigate Trump’s possible use of the ‘instruments of state power to punish the press’ in January
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In other words, the President FOUGHT BACK against all the lies..
Schiff should have been arrested for leaking the House information. He also railroaded Nunez. POTUS has done nothing to arrest anyone in the DS. He could have avoided the election chaos by arresting all these DS Clowns before the election. Now Sessions is gone. Are we to assume there are still 1.3 Trillion Sealed Indictments? Doubt if there are any. Repubs will never fight.
If there is one institution less popular and beloved than congress, it’s the mass media. Having them send each other love notes every day is not a strategy that will make Americans glad they put Democrats back in power.
Yes Virginia, Democrats really are this stupid.
democrat’s use of mob tactics of smearing President Trump and supporters will continue to pay off with the simpleton voters overwhelming electing hag hillary in 2020.
Democrats will probably investigate whether or not he raises the toilet seat when he urinates.
Good point.....must remember to include.
Why don’t they do it the other way and “”probe” the media’s treatment of the president?
Reason why democrats never get anything good done they have no ideas gone fishing is all they do.
Bet you couldn’t even use the for shum even sharks can’t stand the smell of them.
Trump needs to start tweeting a running daily clock showing how much taxpayer money Democrats are wasting on stupid, pointless investigations.
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