Media Matters sides with Justice Dept, says AP ‘sounds like it should be investigated’

Media Matters has weighed in on the news that the Justice Department secretly seized extensive phone records from the Associated Press, and the left-wing advocacy group is siding with the government.

“The AP revealed yesterday that the Justice Department secretly obtained two months of reporter and editor phone records from 2012, likely as part of an investigation into leaks around a counterterrorist operation in the Arabian Peninsula,” reads a Tuesday afternoon post on the Media Matters Action Network website.

“If the press compromised active counter-terror operations for a story that only tipped off the terrorists, that sounds like it should be investigated,” Media Matters argued.

The group insists that the “case raises important questions about the balance between a free press and effective national security.”

In the Associated Press’s Monday report, which revealed the Justice Department’s actions, the news organization explained that they actually delayed publication of the relevant report in the interest of national security.

“The AP delayed reporting the story at the request of government officials who said it would jeopardize national security,” according to the article. “Once officials said those concerns were allayed, the AP disclosed the plot, though the Obama administration continued to request that the story be held until the administration could make an official announcement.”

Media Matters has a notably close relationship with the Obama Justice Department.

Government emails obtained by The Daily Caller in September 2012 showed that Media Matters and the Justice Department have worked in close coordination to quell news stories that reflect negatively on the agency.

it's not quite a Republican "Christmas", but I couldn't be happier with the mot recent spate of bad news emanating from the Executive branch as it relates to the president's political misfortunes.

I've read in some of my posts where people don't want to gloat or exult over the current spate of problems for the current administration because it's still about America, about Americans, as if the American people's destiny, fortuitous or otherwise is somehow connected to this America-loathing sociopath's political fortunes.

When it comes to America, the American people and the current administration, it's not at all a Zero-sum game. (pun overwhelmingly intentional). In other words, what's bad for the Community Leader's political fortunes isn't necessarily bad for America and visa versa.

To the contrary, Obama has shown nothing of substance that would indicate he has the slightest sense of loyalty , patriotic fervor, profound love and respect for the institutions that are uniquely American.

His sense of duty, subservience to the principles of the Constituion is one that is expressed with open contempt and antipathy to the point of talking of this divine document as some relic of the past, a governmental, legal anachronism that has outlived its purpose and usefulness.

To root against Obama is to demonstrate the highest calling of American patriotism, to know very soon that America will be once again be diverted away from the treacherous shoals in which it is now headed at full speed and once again headed out to safe passage and back on course. To gloat over Obama's political situation is to partake in unmitigated political schandenfreude that soon America will become unshackled from what is arguably it's greatest nemesis ever in history, to gloat over his misfortunes in the scandal after scandal come to the fore like some slow dripping faucet is to have Obama's abject criminality revealed and having nowhere to hide. =====================================================

It is a great day when Media Matters administration lackey political rag in a moment to savor comes out openly and unapolgetically in full force to encourage the condemnation of its brother-in-arms fifth column AP in support of the current administration.

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