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Watergate Was For Amateurs: Justice Department Spied For Months On Associated Press Reporters
And so the final curtain falls on the myth of what was supposed to be, in its own words, the "most transparent administration" in history.
As it turns out, the big Friday story of Bloomberg journalists snooping on clients was just amateur hour compared to what the AP was about to serve. In fact, the Watergate affair may soon appear like a walk in the park compared to the First Amendment shitstorm that is about to be unleashed following the just reported news that the US Department of Justice had "secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news."
First amendment? Freedom of speech and press? Surely not when it comes to the Nobel-peace prize winning President and those who dare to expose his secret ways.
And what's worst, is that the AP breach has all the makings of a spiteful hack driven by personal vengeance against one of America's premier news outlets.
We can't wait to see the rest of the not so conservative media stands up in arms and defend one of their peers against an administration whose utter disdain for all checks and balances puts Stalinist Russia to shame. Or perhaps it will be merely a case of "first they came for AP's reporters, and we said nothing..."
And while it has long been known that the NSA actively intercepts and records every single form of electronic communication, the unspoken truth is that the government can do anything it wants as long as it doesn't get caught. It just did, and not only in Benghazi, or the IRS fiasco, but in making a complete mockery of the First Amendment.
As the NSA whistleblower told Wired Magazine over a year ago, “we are this far from a turnkey totalitarian state", all we can add is "we are now in a full-blown totalitarian state."
And nobody cares.
The AP story which must be read to be believed:
The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news.
The records obtained by the Justice Department listed incoming and outgoing calls, and the duration of each call, for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and the main number for AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP.
In all, the government seized those records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. The exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period is unknown but more than 100 journalists work in the offices whose phone records were targeted on a wide array of stories about government and other matters.
In a letter of protest sent to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, AP President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt said the government sought and obtained information far beyond anything that could be justified by any specific investigation. He demanded the return of the phone records and destruction of all copies.
"There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters. These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to AP's newsgathering operations, and disclose information about AP's activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know," Pruitt said.
The government would not say why it sought the records. U.S. officials have previously said in public testimony that the U.S. attorney in Washington is conducting a criminal investigation into who may have leaked information contained in a May 7, 2012, AP story about a foiled terror plot. The story disclosed details of a CIA operation in Yemen that stopped an al-Qaida plot in the spring of 2012 to detonate a bomb on an airplane bound for the United States.
In testimony in February, CIA Director John Brennan noted that the FBI had questioned him about whether he was AP's source, which he denied. He called the release of the information to the media about the terror plot an "unauthorized and dangerous disclosure of classified information."
Prosecutors have sought phone records from reporters before, but the seizure of records from such a wide array of AP offices, including general AP switchboards numbers and an office-wide shared fax line, is unusual and largely unprecedented.
In the letter notifying the AP received Friday, the Justice Department offered no explanation for the seizure, according to Pruitt's letter and attorneys for the AP. The records were presumably obtained from phone companies earlier this year although the government letter did not explain that. None of the information provided by the government to the AP suggested the actual phone conversations were monitored.
Among those whose phone numbers were obtained were five reporters and an editor who were involved in the May 7, 2012 story.
The Obama administration has aggressively investigated disclosures of classified information to the media and has brought six cases against people suspected of leaking classified information, more than under all previous presidents combined.
Justice Department published rules require that subpoenas of records from news organizations must be personally approved by the attorney general but it was not known if that happened in this case. The letter notifying AP that its phone records had been obtained though subpoenas was sent Friday by Ronald Machen, the U.S. attorney in Washington.
Spokesmen in Machen's office and at the Justice Department had no immediate comment on Monday.
The Justice Department lays out strict rules for efforts to get phone records from news organizations. A subpoena can only be considered after "all reasonable attempts" have been made to get the same information from other sources, the rules say. It was unclear what other steps, in total, the Justice Department has taken to get information in the case.
A subpoena to the media must be "as narrowly drawn as possible" and "should be directed at relevant information regarding a limited subject matter and should cover a reasonably limited time period," according to the rules.
The reason for these constraints, the department says, is to avoid actions that "might impair the news gathering function" because the government recognizes that "freedom of the press can be no broader than the freedom of reporters to investigate and report the news."
News organizations normally are notified in advance that the government wants phone records and enter into negotiations over the desired information. In this case, however, the government, in its letter to the AP, cited an exemption to those rules that holds that prior notification can be waived if such notice, in the exemption's wording, might "pose a substantial threat to the integrity of the investigation."
It is unknown whether a judge or a grand jury signed off on the subpoenas.
The May 7, 2012, AP story that disclosed details of the CIA operation in Yemen to stop an airliner bomb plot occurred around the one-year anniversary of the May 2, 2011, killing of Osama bin Laden.
The plot was significant because the White House had told the public it had "no credible information that terrorist organizations, including al-Qaida, are plotting attacks in the U.S. to coincide with the (May 2) anniversary of bin Laden's death."
The AP delayed reporting the story at the request of government officials who said it would jeopardize national security. Once government officials said those concerns were allayed, the AP disclosed the plot because officials said it no longer endangered national security. The Obama administration, however, continued to request that the story be held until the administration could make an official announcement.
The May 7 story was written by reporters Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman with contributions from reporters Kimberly Dozier, Eileen Sullivan and Alan Fram. They and their editor, Ted Bridis, were among the journalists whose April-May 2012 phone records were seized by the government.
Brennan talked about the AP story and leaks investigation in written testimony to the Senate. "The irresponsible and damaging leak of classified information was made ... when someone informed the Associated Press that the U.S. Government had intercepted an IED (improvised explosive device) that was supposed to be used in an attack and that the U.S. Government currently had that IED in its possession and was analyzing it," he said.
He also defended the White House's plan to discuss the plot immediately afterward. "Once someone leaked information about interdiction of the IED and that the IED was actually in our possession, it was imperative to inform the American people consistent with Government policy that there was never any danger to the American people associated with this al-Qa'ida plot," Brennan told senators.
Ah... the illusion of "freedom"
And below is a stock photo of a very busy Eric Holder. Well, at least busy when he is spying on the 4th estate. Not so busy when he is avoiding investigating and prosecuting Too Big To Prosecutve bankers for being instrumental in some $15 trillion in global asset transfers from the middle to the upper classes (and counting at a pace of $160 billion per month).
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Finally, in parallel news, following a FOIA request by the ACLU to learn more about the government’s practice of reading people’s email, text messages, social networking feeds and other private electronic communications without a warrant, here is one of "informative" responses the ACLU received back from the "most transparent" Department of Justice.
Update:
RT @markknoller: WH/Jay Carney declines comment on Justice obtainining phone records of some AP reporters. Refers press to DOJ for comment
— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 13, 2013
Updates via Politico:
Pruitt's full letter to Attorney General Holder:
There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters. These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to AP’s newsgathering operations, and disclose information about AP’s activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know.
We regard this action by the Department of Justice as a serious interference with AP’s constitutional rights to gather and report the news.
The Dept. of Justice has released the following statement:
We take seriously our obligations to follow all applicable laws, federal regulations, and Department of Justice policies when issuing subpoenas for phone records of media organizations. Those regulations require us to make every reasonable effort to obtain information through alternative means before even considering a subpoena for the phone records of a member of the media. We must notify the media organization in advance unless doing so would pose a substantial threat to the integrity of the investigation. Because we value the freedom of the press, we are always careful and deliberative in seeking to strike the right balance between the public interest in the free flow of information and the public interest in the fair and effective administration of our criminal laws.
House Oversight Committee chairman Darrell Issa has released the following statement:
This is obviously disturbing. Coming within a week of revelations that the White House lied to the American people about the Benghazi attacks and the IRS targeted conservative Americans for their political beliefs, Americans should take notice that top Obama Administration officials increasingly see themselves as above the law and emboldened by the belief that they don’t have to answer to anyone. I will work with my fellow House Chairmen on an appropriate response to Obama Administration officials.
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Just caught up with the Vince Foster involuntary suicide...Obama is a Manchurian candidate of formidable proportions but Clinton was up there too. And this aint a beat up on Dems...The repubs are repugnant as well
Exaggerated headline ...
Republicans don't want to be seen as picking on the blackish guy.
Nothings gonna happen to the affirmitive action President.
Obama & Co. : 'How to Compartmentalize a`Potemkin-Macro-Economy`into a`Byzantine-Micro-Economy`using an anachronistic-bellicose foreign policy... in the upside-down world of BarryOcomic'S?' (Quoting Seneca: "If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable")
Julian Assange now serving his 4th year without a charge in a queer... British 'house arrest't`ed development'-- per order, 'Queen Hillary'!?
http://liberte-info.net/campaigns/assange/free_assange_now.html
"United Hillary by the Economist *What Hillary did next,... [ Her (highnesses) record and her plans __ 3/24/12] http://www.economist.com/node/21551105
thankyou, Tyler
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Their main defense for "Fast and Furious , that no one could be that stupid and make it to the oval office, is starting to show some cracks.
Where is the Banzai of the snake devouring itself?
but ... Watergate had a jfk assassination cover up
element. so ...
Everyone, this is the turning point.
THE KING HAS TURNED ON HIS HERALDS! Now the heralds realize that they have a monster on their hands. I cannot believe that they could be this arrogant and stupid. Hold on ... who am I talking about ... Oh let me retract that. I can't believe it took this long ...
Now the CIA knows they've got them by the balls and Patreas is wanting to take a swing.
The overreach is so far that now it is obvious even to the boot kissers.
Benghazi Truth: Obama Was Running Secret Army
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OoMHqoaJC8&feature=youtu.be
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Committing Treason and Benghazi Murder Cover-up
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/05/13/committing-treason-and-benghazi-...
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good luck.
Yeah, someone read "Darkness at Noon" and it wasn't the AP...
suckahs!
wahhh.. it hurts to be betrayed!....wahhh!!!
something not sitting right with this - tooo way toooo obvious
#Benghazi
Yeah, and POTUS cried publicly today. Sumthins up...
"Sumthins up..."
You get that feeling too TB? Not sure why, but the vibe is like, something is UP!
Something fishy about all this control the people and war instigating that is covered in a maze of syrupy lies and deceit. Either the beast is falling apart from within as fast as the market is, which is what is inevitable any ways about it, or something big is happening under all the covers...ups.
Strange, one is reminded of that movie Deep Impact, in which the people were not told about a large incoming object until three days before it happened. This all may be a fleeting feeling, which of course we all hope it is, or there is something afoot and all hands should be on deck, and as vigilant and prepared as possible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0silSyYFPM
If you can help others, do it. All things are karmic as the world spins and if it is going to spin in a new way, all that Karma will be paid off first. Every soul on board now be advised. YOU and only you will save your own conscious eternal fire-soul by your OWN words, deeds, and actions. Being that the universe is very mathematical, all things are calculated and known. Make sure you are in the Karmic credit dept, and not the Karmic debt dept when you cross over to the other side.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNtsVP42bOE
One asked earlier here what can they do, or what can the collective whole that is actually One do? Answer: Always, always follow your heart.
I suspect either Iran or Syria will be hit soon as the wag-the-dog moment has arrived courtesy of the trifecta in the news.
Where is Marc Faber to collect.. Scandal after scandal with this guy..
How many correspondents boycotted the White House Correspondents' Dinner? Need I say more?
The "Justice" department persecuting whistleblowers on injustice. What a fucking laugh.
Anyone saying 0bama and Eric Holder are "sooooo stupid" need to rethink that notion. That is what they want you to think as they lay the foundation to enslave the nation to the illiterate masses. Keep a boat handy for a quick escape from the dying empire...
I would say Obama and Holder are "setting our people free".....He might be our Moses to lead the Joohs back to their homeland and stop trying to usurp ours.
I wonder what they found?
We will never know since a deal will be brokered by the Sanhedrin to secure their silence. We know the Jew will not relent to destroy the fabric of the USA.
Holder just slowed them down buy a decade.
The Goy will get the best of you cousin brides.
"all we can add is "we are now in a full-blown totalitarian state."
And nobody cares."
For me, these are the two key features of what's going on in the US - and the UK and elsewhere in our so-called democratic Western societies.
Governments and central banks have stripped away the 'old rules' of democracy, responsibility and accountability, the Rule of Law and replaced it with Rule of Man. That is, whoever happens to be in the driving seat at the time. And nobody cares a jot. A large majority of people do not understand where this will lead and the price they will pay for disinterest and disengagement. They will only have themselves to blame when the round-ups begin.
I myself am looking forward to blowing the head off of the first agent seeking to carry out an unconstitutional search and seizure, whether of my property or of my person after martial law is declared, (after the false flag).
Carrying out the orders of a tyrant will not excuse you from summary execution by those who still stand by Liberty.
Civil War is coming. Choose your side carefully.
The only 'safe place' to be in a civil-war, is to NOT be there.
The best advice grasshopper, is get the fuck out, bury your treasure, ..
and return in about 10 years post apocalypse, ... anybody that stay's to fight, will die, ... just study the civil-war history, ... everybody fucked everybody,
the safest and most rational place to be during a civil-war, is NOT to be there,
The war will not last long ( 5-10 years ), and after if you return early you can buy land for cheap,... and start all over.
’He has, through his subordinates and agents, endeavored…to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigation to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner,’
— Section 1, Article 2, the impeachment articles of Richard Nixon.
(a friend found the above)
I wonder how many of the reports and their sources were targeted to be audited by the IRS?
Watergate?
in order to have a Wategate you need a strong and independent press
nothing to see here
Note that for this AP spying operation, the DOJ needs the approval of....the AG....right...Eric..fucking...Holder.
BFD Holder should be in prison already. This is chaff
BENGAZI
TREASON
ENFORCE THE LAW
Unbelievable. Wolf Blitzer wonders aloud if perhaps DOJ monitoring phone calls is a good idea after all. Do you think he'd be saying this if it were BUSH doing the monitoring? My God, this bunch of 'journalists' should be among the first to hang when the SHTF.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/13/wolf-blitzer-ap-phone-records_n...
How many more scandals can Mr. Me endure?
bengazi
benghazi
bengaze
bengatzi
bung gatzee
irs holder false flag
rothschild distraction
from that place what is it called agian
bengazi the place where killery and bary obama issue kill orders against
envoy chris stevens.
loose envoy lips sink ships he had to be taken out i here.
he was talking about gadaffi gold.
der gold it gone now.
http://www.bilderberg.org/bis.htm
Breakdown.
A la Julian Assange style but obviously they must be legally innocent
OK, here's an Irish Poem about this:
Annoyin' Fragebogen
The T man said "Answer me this. . ."
Is your bank account Cayman or Swiss???
And I just gotta know,
Oolong or Pekoe?
And the names of your Brother and Sis.
Squeeky Fromm, Girl Reporter
(PS: The title is a pun on "A New Questionnaire" - - - A Neuen Fragebogen- - -
Which, my father has a copy of this book, Der Fragebogen, written after WWII about questionnaires which is sehr interessant if you can find it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_von_Salomon
I do not know who keeps downvoting you - but I appreciate your wit and poems. For what it is worth.
Thank you Arkadaba! Some of the Gold Bugs can't stand me. I think my "Pwned" poem really got under their skins.
Squeeky Fromm, Girl Reporter
Sqeeks//// we goldbugs luvs ya! Yu like a canary in a coal mine.
When yu and "Nick Colas" both get your own slots on the top banner here on "the NEW ZH" 66.6FM .... we'll truly know it be over.
Benghazi front to kill jewish people with weapon's sent to Syria.
NON story AP is,...
This is not about the AP, this is about OBAMA sending a message to all 'leakers' that you will be caught and imprisoned.
Clinton was the TEFLON prez, but the OREO-OBAMA is a 3-d hologram, and it cannot be shown that the emperor has no clothes.
Besides, its game-over for USA democracy. The CIA/NSA now controls everything, and the IRS now controls all data-mining domestically.
Post office gone, so we now use email, but its OK for FBI/CIA to read our email. Ok, so AP get's its phone-records spied on, they're just moving back, soon it will be ok to open our 'mail', even though we don't get any.
The 'right to privacy' was lost a long time ago.
Just today MIT announced clean private 'data mining', but what a joke, its been clearly proven that 99% identification can be found with all so-called 'clean data'. Just need zip-code, and birth-date, zip is known by phone-cell records, and you can be sure that the statisticians need to know how old the driver is to make any kind of analysis.
The NSA/CIA has long world wide cared little about WHO is where, they look at the aggregate population movement, meetings and flocks of 'geese' ( tea-party folk ) moving around in mass, and then they know something is coming down.
Private company's are all allowed to mine data, and then the IRS/CIA/NSA buy's this data and correlates it back, once you know hobbies ( google ), location ( cell ), and birth-date ( social-security/medical ), then 99% identification is easy.
Obama-Care is largely about who has a cold/flu and where they are, ... they'll say that its non-identifiable, but once you have an unknown person at a location, with specific interest, age, and politics, and health data then you know exactly WHO they are.
US Government spying on the AP? Fucking shit, the NSA/CIA records and stores everything fucking call, and email worldwide everyday. They keep it all forever and record it, ...
So the real issue is, ... why are they making it an issue about AP being spied on? They're the 1% ( 4th estate ).
close to the bone...
Moral: Never provide the same birth date twice.
Yes we can!
The American Civil Liberties Union was curious about warrantless government snooping on citizens' text messages. So the group filed a Freedom of Information Act request to the Justice Department. Here's what they got back:
The entire 14 page memo, every word but the header, was balcked out and redacted.
Corruption rules Bitchez.... The "deciders" have gone mad, feasting on the power and lawlessnes that prevail among the power elite. "Trickle down" no more, collapse from all the dirty dead weight at the very top is the only possible outcome.
I've gotta think some 3 or 4 star generals right about now are talking about all this and going "WTF"?
I mean, is it me, or are the events of the past couple of weeks not connected?
It's game-over ... you don't understand
ALL 'law enforcement' today is 'selective'.
Only those too poor to hire a good lawyer go to jail,..
Only those not connected are shot by the police.
Only those without BIG money fear the government..
The generals are MADE-MEN in this MAFIA we call the US government.
They know exactly what is going on ....
Back to OPRAH, .... this is ameriKKKa, kardashians are doing what today, and what about bieber?
American today really isn't that different than the time of Franklin or Jefferson, then only 'rich white men' had the power or rights, .. all else were slaves whether black or white,.. wage-slavery is actually worse kind of slavery of all.
The problem today is there is TOO much education, in the old days guys were fucked, but didn't have free time to feel sorry for themselves, ...
Leave it to Beaver USA never existed, ... I think most folks know that, ...
So long as everyone had a wife, a car, and a house the PONZI lived on, its only now that the house-of-sand is imploding that the parasites are whining on ZH.
Freedom of the Press, and speech, and the right to bear arms, and all that.
They will not let The Constitution and The Bill of Rights get in the way of their political agenda.
This is true of both left and right. Politics is the distraction; "We have always been at war with Eurasia".
Send your tribute to the Emperor in Rome because they need to buy more ammo and armored vehicles to control the "terrortists". You can only have liberty and freedom with the protection of the crown, er, the Imperial Senate, er, the President, er, the CONgress, er, we must have a functioning financial system, er...
Hey AP! You didn't seem too upset when the regime attacked the Second Amendment. How does it feel to find out they also attacked the First?
Fuck this, lets get back to Benghazi.......
and watch em squirm
yep, its all about benghazi..
OBAMA & Rahm Emanuel ( israel citizen ), ... are pissed about 'benghazi cia safe house' being used to funnel weapons to syria, that made their way to kill israelis,...
Imagine that the weapons (USA) made their way from libya, to syria, and then sold to the highest bidder.
So the OP was shutdown,...
My god its good that wikileaks doesn't' have these cables, ...
These are good times my friends when you see fascists killing each other.
Regards to HILLARY-BITCH-CLINTON let's remind she state-department, and thus part of the most elite killing team on earth.
I used to teach knife fighting when young, special forces, in my years I trained with all CIA, ... seals, .. you name it, DOE ( department of energy ) had the best snipers, but 'dept of state' had the best killers. { DOE protects the nukes, that's why they're the best trained and armed force in the USA }... Dept of States kills when it can't win an argument with 'wits', that's why they train the best killers.
So understand that TEAM-HILLARY are the #1 killers on earth, and 'Benghazi', was simply terminated, they will all get away, ... always will,
Like 'AP' today this story has a mission,
IF and I mean a BIG 'IF', if you ship weapons to SYRIA, and they get into the hands that those who kill Israeli's, ... you will DIE.
Pretty simple shit.
It's called survival of the fittest.
Not shitt'in about Rahm Emanuel ( dual passport holder, like Biden ), ... Rahm personally had Hillary-Clitoris make the call to send the signal.
This shit really ain't about CIA/MOSSAD, ... its just about STUPID fucking biz transaction, reminds me of when ollie-north, and friends were selling stinger's to afghan, from central-american drug profits, ... NORTH, and his friends made millions of dollars of 'profit' on these deals,
This is what happened in BENGHAZI, ... somebody thought they could be the next halliburon, and and sold the weapons to somebody hostile to Israel,... do that and DIE.
Got too much outrage fatigue to really care though makes me look for the man behind the curtain, yet again. That much is true.
Bush was proof "It could happen here"
Obama is proof "It does happen here"
The next President (after Biden looses the primary dispite finising Obama's second term) will be proof liberty has truly died in the US.
The names and faces change. The agenda does not.
DUOPOLY, Glitchez !!!!!
Drink it !
Weigh the behavior and influence of sycophantic forces (they are real persons), and there you will find just how far down we really are.
We appear to have morphed from the corrupt-in-control to something much, much worse.
Damn, I'm out of butter...
"As the NSA whistleblower told Wired Magazine over a year ago, “we are this far from a turnkey totalitarian state", all we can add is "we are now in a full-blown totalitarian state.""
Historians, mark your calendars, 5/13/2013: "America becomes totalitarian state, although some authorities claim this point had been reached decades earlier and that it was a merely a failure for the common folk to recognize their chains as they tightened around them.
Martial Law, Police State, ..
Most historians will say 1986, ...
Most FBI "MOU's", came out about then, giving the FEDERAL government police powers over city's, POSSE-COMMITATUS was nulled by that move.
By 1988, for all effect the USA had become a police state.
How long before a boiled-frog knows in he's in a world of shit? He doesn't, ... he just dies a peaceful death.
The only NEWS today is that ORWELLIAN camera's are cheap, and data-mining is cheap, ... thanks to the computer PC revolution. Now every jack-boot PIG on the US-DOLLAR payroll, can get all the pussy, drugs, and power he wants.
Regards to the 'bankers', ... 007 'license to kill', as simply gone to the point that +10% of the USA citizens are now James Bond 'statists', and the remaining 90% are proles, about to be eaten alive.
I alluded to that and I agree with you. This has been a long time coming, but it is now here and it time for us to stop pretending.
So, a lamestream media outlet, owned by the fucking Rothschilds got spied on by the Blobama admin? Quelle surprise!! If this same media outlet would openly fight for the first amendment rights of individual free speech, I might feel bad for them. As far as I'm concerned, I don't give a fuck about AP - they've done nothing but pander to all our imperial presidents - but I do give a fuck about reporters being able to do their jobs and most especially their ability to protect their sources. Maybe the lamestream media will learn something from this incident. Or, NOT!!!
Benghazi-gate. IRS-gate. AP-gate. 3 strikes, yer out! O-man. Please do the world a favor and resign today.
So AP and the administration are having a cat fight. I am curious about what. But AP has been a defender of all administrations - remember "mission accomplished".
Edit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apemYk2oz7M
This is a sham. The same people who control the Justice Department control the mainstream media.
The NSA/CIA records every email and phone all for everyone on the face of the earth and has done this for years, they have so much fucking data, that they have run out of space, and now built a new storage farm in prince-george-Utah, home of the MORMON brigand young, his very own 'summer palace'.
Noteworthy is that a GREAT majority of NSA/CIA types these days are MORMON, ... why? cuz they're the easiest to send all over the world as missionary's, Mormons tend to be patriots ( suckers ), and more knowledgeable about 'abroad' than the average US hair-lip citizen.
Ok, so the problem here is that OBAMA-OREO couldn't get the NSA-CIA data, so he did his own spying.
What does this say about the OREO's ability to control or manipulate the CIA? It says the CIA/NSA don't trust the house-nigger in chief.
Most interesting about this stupid NON-STORY is that the justic-department has resorted to spying, ... just like the FBI, or CIA, or NSA .. does every fucking today. So the story here is that the DeptOfJ, ... is now spying too, ... like they weren't spying yesterday.
Reporters are under great pressure to keep on lying all the while ROME burns, this story is just a simple case of the media fighting back against the OBAMA-OREO hologram.
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I will go one step farther this show's that OBAMA-OREO is now in NIXON crisis mode, he no longer trust's the media. Also he's a ship set to sea, after fucking BETRAYUS in the ASS, Obama is now hated by the pentagon.
The OREO is fucked, but I warn you all, BIDEN ( dual Israel-USA ) will be your worst fucking nightmare.
Could explain why biden has been so crazy in outwardly vocal the past few months....he wants to show 'them' that he's willing to do and say anything..with that fucking smile on his face as he sticks the knife in Uncle Sam's back...
The 2nd amendment nuts have been totally blindsided by the 1st amendment and are probably still blind.
Actually, the second amendment folks have done nothing but to point out the reasons why the second amendment exists. And there has never in US history been a time when that message was more relevant.
OK. I was with you up to the part about the "....spiteful hack driven by personal vengeance against one of America's premier news outlets".
It should have read ....spiteful hack driven by personal vengeance against other spiteful hacks".
Now that's the ticket. :)
Relax, they were just looking for porn.....
RIP Freedom
Who are the owners of AP and Reuters. Treasonous vermin I know but who.
Truly, the most transparent administration ever...
Closing Gitmo lie
Birth certificate form fraud
Benghazi
AP wiretaps
Fast and furious
Vote fraud
Black Panther non prosecution
Gun confiscation efforts
Shamnesty efforts
Acorn support
Blaming Bush
Obamacare
IRS abuse
Libya turnover to Al Queda
Egypt turnover to Muslim Brotherhood
Afghanistan undersupport of hand picked general
Support of Al Queda in Syria
Failed economy
QE 4evah
Fascist
All this thing needs now is a spark, a match, some gas, a blowtorch, some thermite, ahh fuck it. Nothing's gonna happen. Say, what's on reality TV tonight?
Ah, The useful idiots are finding out that they are indeed the useful idiots. The media went all in on supporting the Usurper domestic enemy Obama (not an eligible "natural born Citizen since he was born a British subject, of a British subject father, and is a British subject to this day), hoping for a seat at the table of the Oligarchy of the Marxist regime that replaced the "United States" when the Usurper domestic enemy attained the Presidency. He was allowed there by the treason of Congress, and of the judiciary ,and protected by the Useful idiot media. Now the mouthpieces of the Marxist Regime are finding that they are merely pawns, used to extrapolate the power of the domestic enemy Usurped government of the "United States", and are given no protection or power themselves.
EXACTLY... now that our (media's) constitutional rights are being infringed, we take notice...
An alternate view after reflection overnight...
They are letting all this stuff out to gauge just how far they can go with 'the people'.
Don't be surprised if people - most likely pro-constitution people - are rounded up. Half the country is already from and holds pro-socialist (minimally) or marxist beliefs. On top of that, most of american children are just stupid to what the country was, or is 'supposed to be'.
They are trying to collapse the system....we know this, and this is just another step. Already about half the country despises and even questions the authority of the government.
You'll see, this is going nowhere...sadly...other than more tyrannical control of the land of the 'free'.
If this goes nowhere, if Obama, Clinton, Holder et al skate on this, i would highly suggest no longer posting dissenting opinion anywhere online.
"They hate us for our freedoms".
When does ZH wipe clean these subjects by context, this subject was on the top of the ZH today home page, and now I have to go to google search to find it, ... seems that the folks that run ZH don't want anybody to see this thread.
ZH is a dynamic site-- think of it as... 'dynamite': a powerful financial/news blog composed of exceptionality, volatility, and most-often, explosive current-events, dispersed upon a selective intellectual absorbent 'refracting media',... specifically for jarring open the 'mind's mine'!?
Bravo TYLER!!!
Holder is such a douche.