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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: txradioguy on May 20, 2013, 07:51:07 AM
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When the Justice Department began investigating possible leaks of classified information about North Korea in 2009, investigators did more than obtain telephone records of a working journalist suspected of receiving the secret material.
They used security badge access records to track the reporter’s comings and goings from the State Department, according to a newly obtained court affidavit. They traced the timing of his calls with a State Department security adviser suspected of sharing the classified report. They obtained a search warrant for the reporter’s personal e-mails.
The case of Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, the government adviser, and James Rosen, the chief Washington correspondent for Fox News, bears striking similarities to a sweeping leaks investigation disclosed last week in which federal investigators obtained records over two months of more than 20 telephone lines assigned to the Associated Press.
At a time when President Obama’s administration is under renewed scrutiny for an unprecedented number of leak investigations, the Kim case provides a rare glimpse into the inner workings of one such probe.
Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010. The case also raises new concerns among critics of government secrecy about the possible stifling effect of these investigations on a critical element of press freedom: the exchange of information between reporters and their sources.
“Search warrants like these have a severe chilling effect on the free flow of important information to the public,†said First Amendment lawyer Charles Tobin, who has represented the Associated Press, but not in the current case. “That’s a very dangerous road to go down.â€
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-rare-peek-into-a-justice-department-leak-probe/2013/05/19/0bc473de-be5e-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html
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It's Fauxnooze, DUmmies will rejoice.
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What would have happened if President Bush would have gone after the NY Times for all the leaks they printed?
ETA: Also monitored were William LaJeunesse and a news producer for Fox.
If the MSM doesn't support FNC on this, then they leave themselves open for the next conservative administration to target them.
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Three Fox News Staffers Targeted By Justice Department (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/05/20/Three-Fox-News-Staffers-Targeted-By-DOJ)
Fox News reports that three Fox staffers, two reporters and one producer, were targeted by Barack Obama's Justice Department. Fox doesn't have all the details yet on reporter William La Jeunesse and producer Mike Levine, but their emails showed up in a IG report regarding Fast and Furious. Either their emails were leaked by the Justice Department officials they were sent to, or the email accounts of both were subpoenaed and invaded by government investigators.
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Three Fox News Staffers Targeted By Justice Department (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/05/20/Three-Fox-News-Staffers-Targeted-By-DOJ)
Fox News reports that three Fox staffers, two reporters and one producer, were targeted by Barack Obama's Justice Department. Fox doesn't have all the details yet on reporter William La Jeunesse and producer Mike Levine, but their emails showed up in a IG report regarding Fast and Furious. Either their emails were leaked by the Justice Department officials they were sent to, or the email accounts of both were subpoenaed and invaded by government investigators.
Every Conservative talk show host...news paper writer and television broadcaster needs to file FOIA requests to find out if they were targeted too.
My guess is this is just the tip of the iceberg as far as this Administrations "enemies list."
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/20/justice-department-obtained-records-fox-news-journalist/
"We are outraged to learn today that James Rosen was named a criminal co-conspirator for simply doing his job as a reporter," Clemente said. "In fact, it is downright chilling. We will unequivocally defend his right to operate as a member of what up until now has always been a free press."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/20/justice-department-obtained-records-fox-news-journalist/#ixzz2TrP315I5
Just got that portion as a blurb on my phone from Fox News. Fox is vehemently going to defend this reporter against this charge. Wow, everything going on is just incredible. The lengths this thug organization went too; the abuses of power. Suffice to say wow--I know the usual suspects over at the dump still love all over their buddies in the WH, but suffice to say the people on my FB who are libs are interestingly quiet right now...hmmmm.
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uh huh.
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no jackass, it's the choice of the actual Troops serving in the Armed Forces. The ones you supposedly are the commander of.
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president hussein is busy defending the AP and IRS scandals. Where's Benghazi going? That's the only scandal that can't be "solved" by firing, or rather transferring, a few underlings. Benghazi goes directly to hussein's office. Under the law, he was the only one who could issue the stand down order given the circumstances in Libya.
AP and IRS are just two BB head fakes IMO.
When will hussein start investigating FNC's Katherine Herridge?
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no jackass, it's the choice of the actual Troops serving in the Armed Forces. The ones you supposedly are the commander of.
And this is where I come in down range. Every time we got embed requests I'd do up a reporter profile and links to stories they've done on the area and a brief overview of who they reported for.
I'd submit that to the commander and he'd decide based on what I gathered for him.
Only turned down one request in 12 months (Mother Jones).
I say that to highlight that there is an actual fact based process we go through.
And it's exactly tje opposite of how media would get picked for embeds if certain people had their way.
That being said...the soldiers have to down range and they're smart enough to see who is covering them fairly and who isn't.
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What would have happened if President Bush would have gone after the NY Times for all the leaks they printed?
ETA: Also monitored were William LaJeunesse and a news producer for Fox.
If the MSM doesn't support FNC on this, then they leave themselves open for the next conservative administration to target them.
The oldest saying in politics: never wield a weapon you don't want used on you. (well, other than "give me your money").