AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional

Yahoo ^ | 5/19/13 | PHILIP ELLIOTT

[Perdogg]

The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records "unconstitutional" and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal action against the Justice Department.

Gary Pruitt, in his first television interviews since it was revealed the Justice Department subpoenaed phone records of AP reporters and editors, said the move already has had a chilling effect on journalism. Pruitt said the seizure has made sources less willing to talk to AP journalists and, in the long term, could limit Americans' information from all news outlets.

[riverrunner]

Its really bad when your friends turn against you.

[Repeal The 17th]

“...Gary Pruitt said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal action...”
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So when are you gonna pull the trigger, Gary?

[BfloGuy]

Its really bad when your friends turn against you.

Yes. And of all the scandals, the AP's wiretapping is the one most liberals feel can be defended [national security, you know]. Glad to see the AP isn't going to let it die.

[DJ Frisat]

"Pruitt said the seizure has made sources less willing to talk to AP journalists..."

Uh, maybe that might encourage them to try something new with the Obama crowd: INVESTIGATE. DIG DEEP. Don't just write whatever they tell you to.

"... and, in the long term, could limit Americans' information from all news outlets."

You mean, cut down on Gov't-served propaganda? This is a bad thing?

[RedMDer]

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Let's git 'er done!!

We are Free Republic!
Less than $15k to go!!
Let's git 'er done!!

[null and void]

Whether AP has turned against him remains to be seen.

It's entirely within the realm of possibility that Sally Sweelies

Will go full abused wife and decide she really really likes S&M, bondage and very, very, very rough sex from her government masters.

[Irenic]

and, in the long term, could limit Americans’ information from all news outlets.
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Yeah, like that LA Times hidden Khalidi-Obama Tape?

[Dallas59]

Stabbed in he back. Bush is not involved....must really sting AP.

[SandRat]

[sport]

Hell with him! He can cry all he wants to. It was good with him when his god,obama was raping others along with the Constitution on a daily, if not hourly basis. It is his turn in the barrell now.

[null and void]

"Pruitt said the seizure has made sources less willing to talk to AP journalists..."

Uh, maybe that might encourage them to try something new with the Obama crowd: INVESTIGATE. DIG DEEP. Don't just write whatever they tell you to.

Either that or take the path of least resistance and only use government APproved sources.

After all does anyone doubt that the government can find anything they need to on your computer? Name the threat, photoshopped images of you with scores of random lovers? I'm sure your wife will believe you know nothing about them! Friendly emails to and from know terrorists? You convince OUR federal judge we planted them. Why, we even have backups of the messages from when they were originally transmitted at our little ol' storage facility in Utah!

[Old Sarge]

AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional

Obama White House replies "Whacha gonna do bout it, mah biches!"

[Bratch]

The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records "unconstitutional" and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal action against the Justice Department.

Lotsa luck.

Chief Justice Roberts:

"It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices."

[hattend]

So a lefty organization got mugged.

Will they open their eyes now?

[liberty or death]

AP has completely sold themselves to the Affirmative action president and his minions. But with all totalitarians there comes a day of reckoning for them, the useful idiots. Parrot their talking points or they will send you to Siberia. Printing the truth has consequences.

Lock and load. Now!

[narses]

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[Christie at the beach]

Well, Mr. Pruitt, you and most in Obama’s collaborating media created this transformation by allowing the assistance in abusing his constitutional authority as you turned away from the basic rule of journalism. Now, you find yourselves in the place that many of us have been experiencing. Let's hope this is not a temporary awakening though much deeper that you wake up to help us in saving our constitutional rights.

[Pollster1]

Pruitt said the seizure has made sources less willing to talk to AP journalists and, in the long term, could limit Americans' information from all news outlets.

Meaning that if journalists started trying to do their jobs, finally, it would be more difficult. Sounds like Obama won that round, even though he did it through a shocking (and impeachable, for a conservative) violation of the First Amendment.

[CottShop]

[[AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional]]

But yet the AP turns right aroudn and LIES for the president the very next day- aqnd protects him by NOT reportign hte TRUTH abotu what has been goign on under HIS WATCH i nthe white hosuie