[speechlesstx]

Good luck :)

It was a yes or no question.

[talaniman]

No it wasn't. You wanted me to predict the future. WHY??

[speechlesstx]

No it wasn't. You wanted me to predict the future. WHY??

Wrong buddy, the question is will YOU feel the same way when the Dems ARE in the minority, not when will the Dems be in the minority? But if the events of the past week keep unfolding like this I expect that could be much sooner than you'd like. This spying on the AP is just tip of the iceberg I betcha. I posted this on another thread...

Add the war on Fox News to that mix. You remember, the White House actually tried to bar Fox News from covering the press pool covering White House in 2009. It turns out that in 2010 the DoJ spied on Fox' WH reporter James Rosen.

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.

It makes more sense now why the media was in the tank for Obama so deep they couldn't address obvious issues and why nothing would stick - you didn't dare cross the Emperor or tarnish his image or bad things happen. The Chicago Way with this guy is even more real than we imagined, but they finally got caught with their pants down. .

[talaniman]

The Chicago Way with this guy is even more real than we imagined, but they finally got caught with their pants down. .

You are either getting mooned, or told to kiss his black a$$. That should be an understandable response for 5 years of rock throwing, name calling, and character assassination.

[speechlesstx]

You are either getting mooned, or told to kiss his black a$$.

Glad you finally recognized the problem, that's an apt description of the Obama administration and a great title for his presidential memoirs, "Kiss My Black A$$ America."

[speechlesstx]

Hmm, the NY Times finds the admin's 'investigation' of James Rosen, "chilling."

Ya think?

[tomder55]

That's because the Slimes can see themselves being slapped with a criminal conspiracy charge too if they don't toe the line . The Slimes is also concerned about the IRS . But not because the IRS targeted Tea Party... no they encouraged it .

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/op...ml?src=tp&_r=0

Their big concern is that this will make it more difficult to implement Obamacare .
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/op...ml?ref=opinion

[speechlesstx]

That's because the Slimes can see themselves being slapped with a criminal conspiracy charge too if they don't toe the line . The Slimes is also concerned about the IRS . But not because the IRS targetted Tea Party ..... no they encouraged it .

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/op...ml?src=tp&_r=0

Their big concern is that this will make it more difficult to implement Obamacare .
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/op...ml?ref=opinion

No surprises here, especially this line, "Still, Republicans have scheduled hearings to try to link the scandal to health care reform."

Right, government jackboots chilling free speech and trying to influence the election while covering it up until long after the election has nothing at all to do with it.

[speechlesstx]

Uh oh, in the revelation that Holder personally signed off on the warrant identifying Fox News reporter James Rosen as a "possible co-conspirator", Holder seems to have perjured himself in testimony under oath to Congress.

Said Holder at the time:

In regard to potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material. This is not something I’ve ever been involved in, heard of, or would think would be wise policy.

I wonder if his memory has just been jogged.

[tomder55]

The onion keeps on getting peeled back and each layer stinks worse. Is there any doubt that the Holder Justice Dept cannot be trusted to fairly investigate the various scandals that have been revealed ? Holder is as heavily involved in it as John Mitchell was in 1973 .

[tomder55]

Thursday the Emperor said with a straight face at the National Defense University :
'I am troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may chill the investigative journalism that holds government accountable,"... "Journalists should not be at legal risk for doing their jobs."

So what is he doing about it ? He ordered Eric Holder to investigate himself :
"I have raised these issues with the attorney general, who shares my concern. So he has agreed to review existing Department of Justice guidelines governing investigations that involve reporters, and will convene a group of media organizations to hear their concerns as part of that review. And I have directed the attorney general to report back to me by July 12."

[speechlesstx]

If it weren't for the fact that so many Americans are low information voters I'd offer a "you just can't make this stuff up," because the idea of having your AG investigate himself is too ludicrous to believe. On the other hand for once the media might not give him cover on this one.

[tomder55]

Politico's Dylan Byers reports that Sharyl Attkisson not only has a problem with the government snoops who have tampered with her computer... she also has a cultural problem at CBS with colleagues who think there's something wrong with a journalist who is willing to report about the Emperor's shortcomings and scandals. This is because she is actually doing the job of an investigative reporter in covering issues like Fast and Furious, Solyndra and Benghazi.

In light of the Washington press corps' current distrust of the Obama administration, much of Attkisson's reporting now seems prescient — the sort of thing one might expect CBS News executives to celebrate publicly.

Instead, suspicions of partisanship have made Attkisson a polarizing figure within her own organization.

CBS News President David Rhodes is said to value her diligence, but there are others, most notably Pat Shevlin, the executive producer of CBS Evening News, who are wary of her motives and have even dismissed her, in private, as a partisan carrying water for Republicans.

Alternatively, some sources suggested that Shevlin's own political bias, which they described as liberal, was to blame.

Either way, the tension has caused Attkisson to feel that she's been marginalized at the network, sources said.

“She doesn't get much love here,” one CBS News source told POLITICO. “Part of that is her fault — she doesn't have a filter on when to push certain stories, when to say that's not big enough for the Evening News.

“She is a dogged reporter, a good reporter, but some people here get the feeling she goes too far — that she's agenda-driven,” another source said. “She's not afraid, and that's a great thing. But sometimes, people here believe she has to be reined in.”

The Sharyl Attkisson approach - POLITICO.com Print View
What her Obot apologist comrades at CBS fail to acknowledge is that when Bush was President she also doggedly pursued stories about the Bush Adm . In other words ,then and now ,she did her job.

[paraclete]

What I don't get here is there was a phone hacking scandal in the UK involving journalists, what makes anyone think a government agency is not way ahead on this activity. Now, I know someone is going to shout law and constitution to me, but you tell me all the time this administration doesn't respect these things and yet it is surprise when it happens I would be surprised if it didn't and I certainly don't think this activity would be confined to one administration.

In these days of cyber warfare everyone is doing it

[speechlesstx]

It's no surprise to me, we've been speaking of this admin's Chicago ways fir years. It's the media that seems surprised, or reluctantly admitting what it should have known.

[paraclete]

Yes spent too long hiding behind that constitution only to find it is only paper

[tomder55]

It's our law. You may as well say we are hiding behind the rule of law .

[paraclete]

Yes could be the point I was making is they couldn't believe it could happen to them because they couldn't conceive someone would act outside the law

[talaniman]

We don't know if a law was broken despite the press being pissed off they were being investigated. They weren't the target either, a white house leaker was. But I doubt a reporter wanting a hot story would ever turn down classified information.

We will see as its still early regardless of right wing glee and celebration.

[tomder55]

They weren't the target either, a white house leaker was.

Depends on which story you are following .The AP taps were illegally obtained because the Obots were pissed that AP was going to scoop them on an intelligence story.Rosen was being investigated as a possible co-conspirator on a leak about the NORKS .Attkisson appears to be a target because she is a good reporter who doesn't know her place in the Emperor's world .