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FLASHBACK: Obama Administration Secretly Wiretaps Journalists
True Pundit ^ | March 4, 2017 | Admin.

Posted on 03/04/2017 1:15:51 PM PST by HarleyLady27

THE DEPARTMENT OF Justice secretly obtained phone records for reporters and editors who work for the Associated Press news agency, including records for the home phones and cell phones of individual journalists, according to the AP, in what the agency characterized as “serious interference with AP’s constitutional rights to gather and report the news.”

The records, covering all of April and May 2012, were seized by the DoJ earlier this year and covered more than 20 separate phone lines. The records listed outgoing calls for both the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, as well as the general phone lines for AP bureaus in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and a main number used by AP reporters in the House of Representatives.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Government; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: 201204; 201205; ap; crimes; eavesdropping; government; history; house; politics; wiretapping; yemen

1 posted on 03/04/2017 1:15:51 PM PST by HarleyLady27
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To: HarleyLady27; Jane Long; BlackFemaleArmyCaptain; Black Agnes; djstex; RoosterRedux; DoughtyOne; ...

Ping...

...remember when...


2 posted on 03/04/2017 1:16:28 PM PST by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: HarleyLady27

I would bet that 0bama had every Republican in Congress bugged.

Why else would they fold like a cheap suit?

5.56mm


3 posted on 03/04/2017 1:23:15 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: HarleyLady27
Surely not innocent little Satan worshipping Obama.

I can only imagine what he did to his own congressional memberz and SCOTUS. It would explain Robert's betrayal of the American people and why all the GOP turned RINOS and kept stabbing us in the back.

4 posted on 03/04/2017 1:26:13 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: HarleyLady27

he did the same thing to Angela Merkel in 2013 the media never gave a damn..yet Obamas goons say they’ve never done it


5 posted on 03/04/2017 1:27:34 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: HarleyLady27

I am betting that all of this on trump being phones being tapped is going to snowball.


6 posted on 03/04/2017 1:33:10 PM PST by PCPOET7 (in)
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To: jsanders2001

Slick and Herself, back in the years between 1993 and 2001, were perusing FBI files (for which they were seemingly never called to account for), as part of the “oppo research”, and they used a good deal of this raw data as a lever to avoid some of the more drastic consequences of their behavior then. Tapping into servers and phone records is just a newer and more sophisticated means of this “oppo research”.


7 posted on 03/04/2017 1:35:03 PM PST by alloysteel (John Galt has chosen to take the job. This time, Atlas did NOT shrug.)
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To: HarleyLady27
I remember this well.

I also remember Obama wanting to be able to kill Americans without due process.

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2011/09/30/8063632-can-us-legally-kill-a-citizen-overseas-without-due-process

Rand Paul did great with his filibuster against EVIL Obama.
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/rand-paul-filibuster-john-brennan-cia-nominee-88507_Page3.html

8 posted on 03/04/2017 1:35:15 PM PST by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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To: HarleyLady27

Midnight cash pallets

Lear jet meetings


9 posted on 03/04/2017 1:48:22 PM PST by gaijin
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To: HarleyLady27

BO’B also tapped Fox News’ James Rosen. Once burned, twice shy. Another lie, another punch in the eye to America and her people.


10 posted on 03/04/2017 1:49:16 PM PST by V K Lee (If all the nations in the world are in debt, where did all the money go?)
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To: HarleyLady27

11 posted on 03/04/2017 2:01:10 PM PST by Baynative ( Someone's going to have to pay for these carbon emissions, so it might as well be you.)
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To: HarleyLady27

He physically kidnapped and held those A holes against their will for several hours before his first offense against our Constitution!


12 posted on 03/04/2017 2:02:44 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (TETELESTI Read em and weep Lucy! Yer times almost up.)
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To: alloysteel
> Tapping into servers and phone records is just a newer and more sophisticated means of this “oppo research”.

And a heck of a lot easier especially when it's an automated intel collection machine.

13 posted on 03/04/2017 2:03:53 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: HarleyLady27

bookmark for future reference........thanks for the post


14 posted on 03/04/2017 2:07:28 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Spunky

Ping for later.


15 posted on 03/04/2017 2:08:14 PM PST by Spunky (I LIKE CAMPBELL SOUP :-))
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To: HarleyLady27

Yeah—But AP didn’t make too big of a deal out of it because it was their beloved Barky doing it to them.


16 posted on 03/04/2017 2:09:13 PM PST by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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To: HarleyLady27

Now it is becoming clearer that the ‘reporters’ were terrified of BO and the potential destruction of their careers.

This is scary stuff.


17 posted on 03/04/2017 2:55:07 PM PST by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
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To: miele man

Bookmark


18 posted on 03/04/2017 6:19:41 PM PST by miele man
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