James Rosen, Fox News
Spied on by Obama
Posted on 06/07/2018 7:23:39 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Federal law enforcement officials secretly seized years’ worth of a New York Times reporter’s phone and email records this year in an investigation of classified information leaks. It was the first known instance of the Justice Department going after a reporter’s data under President Trump.
The seizure — disclosed in a letter to the reporter, Ali Watkins — suggested that prosecutors under the Trump administration will continue the aggressive tactics employed under President Barack Obama.
Mr. Trump has complained bitterly about leaks and demanded that law enforcement officials seek criminal charges against government officials involved in illegal and sometimes embarrassing disclosures of national security secrets.
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(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
If Donald Trump Targets Journalists, Thank Obama
If Donald J. Trump decides as president to throw a whistle-blower in jail for trying to talk to a reporter, or gets the F.B.I. to spy on a journalist, he will have one man to thank for bequeathing him such expansive power: Barack Obama.
Mr. Trump made his animus toward the news media clear during the presidential campaign, often expressing his disgust with coverage through Twitter or in diatribes at rallies. So if his campaign is any guide, Mr. Trump seems likely to enthusiastically embrace the aggressive crackdown on journalists and whistle-blowers that is an important yet little understood component of Mr. Obama’s presidential legacy.
Criticism of Mr. Obama’s stance on press freedom, government transparency and secrecy is hotly disputed by the White House, but many journalism groups say the record is clear. Over the past eight years, the administration has prosecuted nine cases involving whistle-blowers and leakers, compared with only three by all previous administrations combined. It has repeatedly used the Espionage Act, a relic of World War I-era red-baiting, not to prosecute spies but to go after government officials who talked to journalists.
Under Mr. Obama, the Justice Department and the F.B.I. have spied on reporters by monitoring their phone records, labeled one journalist an unindicted co-conspirator in a criminal case for simply doing reporting and issued subpoenas to other reporters to try to force them to reveal their sources and testify in criminal cases.
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Nah. Trump will do what Trump does on his own without any lessons or precedence by Mr. O.
Turn-around is fair play.
LOVE IT - now they’re starting to FINALLY get what they deserve for all the lies and fake news and fake tweets regarding Trump.
If memory serves, I believe Obama not only spied on all the calls of one reporter but also the calls of HIS PARENTS.
A mysterious move by the Senate Wednesday night is part of a Justice Department inquiry into a former Senate Intelligence Committee aide who may have leaked classified information.
The Senate unanimously approved a resolution allowing the committee to provide records to the Justice Department in response to a request related to the investigation.
The aide's identity and the lawmaker for whom he or she worked is not clear, but on Thursday, The New York Times published an article saying that federal investigators had seized years' worth of email and phone records relating to one of its reporters, Ali Watkins.
Watkins previously had a three-year romantic relationship with James A. Wolfe, the Senate Intelligence Committee’s former director of security, The Times reported, adding that the records covered a period of time before she joined the paper.
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Or - to paraphrase Paul Ryan and the rest of the Democrats:
“I don’t see a problem with an Administration rifling through the E-Mails and phone calls of a report, perhaps she had Borscht once.”
Wait until Trump follows the precedents Obama set in Election 2020.
List of the diplomats, politicians and jouranlists Obama spied on:
http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/31493/61/
James Rosen, Fox News
He also went after AP reporters.
Correct. James Rosen. FOX News.
James Rosen, Fox News
Spied on by Obama
Spied on by Obama
BREAKING!
Jim Wolfe, a longtime former director of security at the Senate Intelligence Committee, was ‘indicted and arrested Thursday night’ for giving false statements to F.B.I. agents during their investigation into leaks of classified information to the media.
Developing story WAshington Examiner
Please remain clam.
Are you being serial? I’m setting my Beeber to stune!
You have no chance to survive make your time.
JIM WOLFE ARRESTED....!
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/7/james-wolfe-ex-senate-intelligence-committee-staff/
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