Posted on 05/19/2013 2:11:21 PM PDT by 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.
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The media has protected Obama like a trained dog, attacking his enemies on command and protecting him from curious minds who want to know what really goes on between those two big ears.
Finally tired of being kicked in the ass by it's master the mutt media is at least showing some teeth.
When it was just happening to conservatives, they could care less or even agreed with it. Now that it happens to them, they cry about it.
You got that right. The AP will bitch and whine and then fall back in line. Nothing to see here, move along...
Ya lie down with Obamas, ya get up with fleas.
From the same people have been ignoring scores of constitutional violations
Dear Mr. AP guy, of course it’s unconstitutional. But this is the first time you’ve ever cared about what’s constitutional. Welcome to the club, come on, grow up and look around you to see what’s REALLY going on.
I am confused and bemused by Roberts’ comment about consequences of political choices. I can accept/acknowledge that individuals can make wrong and stupid political choices for which they are responsible. However, not all such individual choices are completely free of societal structured influences and unknowns. Would Roberts claim that any such choices mute any wrongdoing/illegal actions as far as that individual is concerned?
This AP CEO apparently has a single-focused view of the first amendment. Surely he realizes that it begins with freedom of religion before it mentions freedom of the press.
And they were among the merrymakers when Obama decided he could force Christians, Catholics in particular, to violate their religion.
If they’d cried out against those abuses, perhaps they would make it clear that no abuses would be tolerated.
The message they sent to Obama was that he could do what he wanted regardless of the God-given rights of a free people.
The AP “useful idiots” got punked.
I have zero sympathy for those #s.
AP says the seizure is unconstitutional! When a whore gets goosed, she makes an awful fuss.
Then do something, dumbazz.
Heh. How do you make a hormone?
Oh, lots of things are unconstitutional.
Up until now those who could do something about them haven’t seemed to care.
Maybe now they will? I hope so.
Who did Conservatives say would be the first targets after Conservatives? Why the media of course. All the little lefties that were Obama’s foot stool, they would be taken out.
So here’s AP, couldn’t find a story with both hands if it was taped their butt, and now all of a sudden they’re the White House and Justice Department target, and suddenly the Constitution that is supposed to be so outdated according to Leftists, suddenly means something again. Oh my!
This guy still can’t pull the trigger on Obama. I guarantee you he’ll blame the J. D. and leave Obama out of it.
These Leftists will NEVER learn.
It’s not unconstitutional necessarily depending on how it was done. If there is criminal activity in any business including the press there are legal procedures for obtaining the records. I have no idea what happened in this case. I am just saying the Press are NOT immune to legal searches and seizures
Please, as soon as Obama along with the rest of the left come-a-courtin’, this ‘outrage’ will disappear faster than Michelle Obama chowing down at a buffet.
The left do not care! They WANT an obtrusive government.
Okay. Don't talk. Sue the b******s.
“It’s not unconstitutional until it happens to us”.
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