Justice Department NOW Targeting 3 Fox Reporters

[SJJRSJJS]

How long is this going to go on before something big happens? I am beginning to really dislike Libs, before I merely did not like them much. They are arrogant bastards who think that they can get away with anything, just read some of their BS on here. That is ok, the chickens will be coming home to roost, puk puk pukfukup'

"Report: Justice Department targeted TWO Fox News Channel reporters and a producer for talking with government sources"

"The Fox News Channel is outraged over new revelations that three of its reporting staffers were targeted by the U.S. Department of Justice in criminal investigations related to their attempts to obtain information from government sources.
James Rosen, the network's chief Washington correspondent, has become a First Amendment cause celebre over his treatment by the Obama administration. But the DOJ, Fox says, also investigated the Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter William La Jeunesse and Fox News producer Mike Levine.
Rosen, according to affidavits filed by FBI agents, was considered a possible criminal co-consp"


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...talking-government-sources.html#ixzz2Tu9qEdmy

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...talking-government-sources.html#ixzz2Tu9Guc4S

 

[The Dude]

Fox has reporters!

 

[Howey]

The best reporter Fox has is Roland Hedley.

 

[DamnYankee]

Scandal 4. This is systemic.

 

[blackascoal]

If Bush had targeted MSNBC reporters democrats would be losing their minds .. but since it's just Fox reporters, and Obama. they don't care.

 

[DamnYankee]

If Bush had targeted MSNBC reporters democrats would be losing their minds .. but since it's just Fox reporters, and Obama. they don't care.

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller

 

[Howey]

Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller

Ahh...bringing up Godwin's law always makes one look rational...

 

[DamnYankee]

Ahh...bringing up Godwin's law always makes one look rational...

You never seem to have much to add to the discussion...

 

[maineman]

If Bush had targeted MSNBC reporters democrats would be losing their minds .. but since it's just Fox reporters, and Obama. they don't care.

That's not too far from correct.

 

[blackascoal]

That's not too far from correct.

Unfortunately, it's absolutely correct.

If Bush were in office .. democrats would be ..

.. losing their fucking minds.

But since it's just republicans and Fox News .. they make jokes.

They really believe Obama to be above the law.

 

[Howey]

You never seem to have much to add to the discussion...

Far more than you, troll.

If Bush had targeted MSNBC reporters democrats would be losing their minds .. but since it's just Fox reporters, and Obama. they don't care.

Whew...tell that to Dan Rather!

Or these guys!

Former National Security Agency analyst Russell Tice, who helped expose the NSA's warrantless wiretapping in December 2005, has now come forward with even more startling allegations. Tice told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on Wednesday that the programs that spied on Americans were not only much broader than previously acknowledged but specifically targeted journalists.

"The National Security Agency had access to all Americans' communications -- faxes, phone calls, and their computer communications," Tice claimed. "It didn't matter whether you were in Kansas, in the middle of the country, and you never made foreign communications at all. They monitored all communications."

Or this guy!

Since that time, the Bush Justice Department had been trying to identify Risen’s sources for his book on the nation’s spy agencies, called State of War. In April, the New York Times reported that former government officials had been called before a grand jury and confronted with phone records documenting their calls with Risen. Neither Risen nor the New York Times had received a subpoena for those records.

And you'd never, ever, ever, ever!!! see Obama targeting reporters this way!

 

[DamnYankee]

Irony:

... troll.

 

[The Dude]

Fox has redneck entertainers, not reporters.

 

[maineman]

Unfortunately, it's absolutely correct.

If Bush were in office .. democrats would be..... losing their fucking minds.

But since it's just republicans and Fox News .. they make jokes.

They really believe Obama to be above the law.

I don't believe that Obama is above the law.... I guess it boils down to the fact that I really don't believe that Faux News is a legitimate news outlet, whereas I DO believe that other networks are.

 

[Jarod]

Are Fox News reporters above the law or something?

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

I don't believe that Obama is above the law.... I guess it boils down to the fact that I really don't believe that Faux News is a legitimate news outlet, whereas I DO believe that other networks are.

explain why it is you think Fox isn't a 'legitimate' news source while the others are. What is your rationale for that?

To make it easier on you... compare Fox to MSNBC if you would.

 

[Bonestorm]

I could see the "Obama above the law" argument if the DOJ just up and took Rosen's records. But they didn't. They applied for and were granted a search warrant. That's how the law works.

 

[christiefan915]

Unfortunately, it's absolutely correct.

If Bush were in office .. democrats would be ..

.. losing their fucking minds.

But since it's just republicans and Fox News .. they make jokes.

They really believe Obama to be above the law.

I don't believe for one minute that Obama's above the law but I do want to see all the evidence before making a decision. Or maybe I'm just really cynical about repub investigations since the Ken Starr debacle.

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

Unfortunately, it's absolutely correct.

If Bush were in office .. democrats would be ..

.. losing their fucking minds.

But since it's just republicans and Fox News .. they make jokes.

They really believe Obama to be above the law.

I admit... I chuckled at the above

 

[Bonestorm]

I don't believe for one minute that Obama's above the law but I do want to see all the evidence before making a decision. Or maybe I'm just really cynical about repub investigations since the Ken Starr debacle.

There isn't a whole lot of grey in this one. Rosen, a journalist, was named in a search warrant application as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator to violations of the Espionage Act for receiving classified information. It is extraordinarily unlikely that Rosen would be prosecuted as such and that the purpose of naming him as an aider, abettor or co-conspirator was to circumvent restrictions on obtaining journalist work product, but that's what happened. And it's wrong. Very wrong.

Basically, the government is prohibited from gaining access to "search for or seize any work product materials possessed by a person reasonably believed to have a purpose to disseminate to the public a newspaper, book, broadcast, or other similar form of public communication, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce." However, there is an exception to this rule where "there is probable cause to believe that the person possessing such materials has committed or is committing the criminal offense to which the materials relate," which includes the receipt or dissemination of classified material,

So, yes, the government complied with all the legal formalties and didn't do anything "above the law," but the law is fucked and the government shouldn't be naming journalists as aider/abettors/co-conspirtors with leakers, even though they maybe technically are.