This is what free countries do. I don't see the problem. The executive branch looking at the private conversation between reporters and congressmen and women is how the separation of powers works. This is just another craaaaazy conspiracy.
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‘Phone records seizure unconstitutional’ in Breaking News 4 mins ago
The US Justice Department secretly obtained records of AP’s telephone calls over a two-month period. The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press (AP) says the US government™s seizure of phone records was œunconstitutional” and has hurt the agency™s ability to report on the news. Gary Pruitt said on Sunday the Department of Justice’s secret monitoring of phone calls made by AP reporters has made sources less willing to talk to AP journalists.
“Officials that would normally talk to us, and people we talk to in the normal course of news gathering, are already saying they’re a little reluctant to talk to us,” Pruitt said, adding, œThey fear that they will be monitored by the government.” As part of its investigation into who may have leaked sensitive information contained in a May 7, 2012, AP story about a foiled US attack in Yemen, the department “issued a secret subpoena for the phone toll records for 21 AP phone lines and these were phones lines for reporters, direct lines, cell phones, home phones but also the office numbers,” Pruitt explained.
“So over 100, approximately a hundred journalists used these telephone lines as part of newsgathering and over the course of the two months of the records that they swept up, thousands upon thousands of newsgathering calls were made,” he noted. Pruitt pointed out that the Department of Justice did not inform the AP of its investigation, and said the agency violated its own rules by failing to narrow its records request as much as possible.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
DOJ Spy Scandal:Associated Press Got What It Asked For By Serving As Lapdog Government Propagandists May 20, 2013
Source: Lee Rogers, Blacklisted News
The Obama regime is now in the midst of three separate scandals all of which are revealing just a small portion of the criminal activity that has been taking place in the federal government. Based upon historical precedent the actual nature of criminal activity within governments is usually much worse than is ever fully revealed to the public.
Let’s take a look at a few examples. Specifically the federal government has participated in covering up the true facts of many events including the JFK assassination, the Israeli military attack on the U.S. Navy warship the USS Liberty, the 1993 government sanctioned slaughter of women and children in Waco Texas, the FBI’s involvement in facilitating the World Trade Center bombing of 1993, the government’s complicity in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City and most importantly Israeli and U.S. government involvement in the attacks of September 11th, 2001. The Obama regime and prior Presidential regimes have gotten away with these criminal acts because the big corporate controlled media outlets have willfully served as propagandists and mouthpieces for the government
. Instead of asking real questions and applying basic common sense principles of journalism they have openly dismissed and mocked anyone engaged in seeking the truth. They have even resorted to calling these critical thinkers names or discrediting their work by using terms like conspiracy theory and the like.
There is little doubt that the corporate controlled media is at the very least partially to blame for much of the government criminality that we see today
. Instead of serving as a government watchdog, they serve primarily as a government lapdog and merely repeat whatever official story the government puts out. The end result of this type of propaganda fueled journalism is that the people at the highest levels of government have become incredibly drunk and corrupt with power. The corruption has become so great that there were actually people in the Eric Holder run Justice Department that felt as if they could get away with broadly wiretapping phone lines with no judicial review at the nation’s largest news gathering organization the Associated Press. Holder has attempted to justify this activity by claiming it was for national security which is utterly insane and ridiculous. Like the “mistakes were made” quote, this seems to be another popular response given by government officials when they get caught breaking the law or worse.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
That article left out the complicate media propagandizing the public and preparing the country for the invasion of Iraq. And supporting the US roll in overthrowing Gadaffi. This media loves death and destruction.
awwwwwwwwwwwwwww......the LAME STREAM MEDIA is upset!!!awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...
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IRS Scandal: Armed Police 'Escort' Reporters Through Cincinnati Office
Monday afternoon, ABC News released a chilling report that details what journalists have faced while trying to get some answers from the Cincinnati IRS office, which is where a majority of the Tea Party targeting took place.
According to ABC, an "armed uniform police officer with the Federal Protective Service" "escorted" reporters through the public building. ABC says if the intent wasn't to "scare off" employees who might talk, "it was the effect."
ABC News is also hearing conflicting reports from Cincinnati IRS employees and the IRS Headquarters in Washington. A Washington spokesman told ABC that press queries are "referred to the press office," but that "people have First Amendment rights, they are entitled to speak."
An employee in OH said that is not the case and that staffers have been threatened with their jobs if they are caught talking to the media:
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Sharyl Attkisson, the Emmy-award winning CBS News investigative reporter, says that her personal and work computers have been compromised and are under investigation.
"I can confirm that an intrusion of my computers has been under some investigation on my end for some months but I'm not prepared to make an allegation against a specific entity today as I've been patient and methodical about this matter," Attkisson told POLITICO on Tuesday. "I need to check with my attorney and CBS to get their recommendations on info we make public."
In an earlier interview with WPHT Philadelphia, Attkisson said that though she did not know the full details of the intrustion, "there could be some relationship between these things and what's happened to James [Rosen]," the Fox News reporter who became the subject of a Justice Dept. investigation after reporting on CIA intelligence about North Korea in 2009.
On Sunday, The Washington Post reported that the Justice Dept. had searched Rosen's personal e-mails and tracked his visits to the State Dept. The court affadavit described Rosen as “at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator" of his government source, presumably because he had solicited classified information from that source -- an argument that has been heavily criticized by other journalists.
Attkisson told WPHT that irregular activity on her computer was first identified in Feb. 2011, when she was reporting on the Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal and on the Obama administration's green energy spending, which she said "the administration was very sensitive about." Attkisson has also been a persistent investigator of the events surrounding last year's attack in Benghazi, and its aftermath.
As the corporate media sat back quiet, and FAWNED over Obama while he reauthorized the Patriot Act (spying on all Americans) for fear of being called a racist for being critical of his policy, they are just now reaping what they have sewn.
Hey journalists! You are now POTENTIAL TERRORISTS and a THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY, just like all the lowly serfs you push your propaganda onto. Sorry if I don't shed a tear for your little problem. You and your little minions mocked the people trying to warn America that the federal government has become tyrannical.
It is true what they say, those low level communist(useful idiots) that help usher in a communist regime are the first to be taken out once they become disillusioned and realize what has happened to them. By that time it is too late, and they will be the first to be destroyed by the regime they helped usher in. Since now they are no longer useful but instead they are the regimes biggest threat to power.
As the Republican Party drops yet farther in the polls... The exact opposite has occurred for the Democratic Party. Not only has President Obama’s job approval rating climbed, but his party is also on the upswing. The Democratic Party’s unfavorable rating has fallen from 48% to 43%. The favorability rating of President Obama’s party has grown from 46% to 52%. This is a net (+11) point swing for the Democrats.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
The Nazi Party and Communist Party had similar support. King George III had the support of most colonists prior to the revolution. People fear tyrants, that is why they support them. If you oppose them, you will be crushed. It's human nature.
Sorry Box, but even the mainstream press isn't buying your usual line of DNC bullshit. Whether Obama knew anything about the IRS and fed intrusion into the press remains to be seen, but your claim that these events were "invented" just exposes yourself as a partisan hack.
"Arguing with liberals is like playing chess with a pigeon; no matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock out the pieces, crap on the board, and strut around like it is victorious." - Author Unknown
Useful idiots, when they are no longer needed they destroy them too.
I have NO sympathy what so ever!! How does the LAME STREAM MEDIA like being screwed over?? And screwed over by the same government and president that they cheerleaded and covered up for!!
The LAME STREAM MEDIA that gave 2 sh!ts about the american people losing their freedoms and only the blistering greed and power they felt between their legs when they 'selected their GOV ALMIGHTY'!!!
Karma?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
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