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AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional
Yahoo ^ | 5/19/13 | PHILIP ELLIOTT

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government
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To: BfloGuy

Honestly, I hope Obama attacks NBC,ABC, and CBS. I want to their private email and phone records splashed all over the Internet, with Eric Holder daring them to complain.


41 posted on 05/19/2013 5:35:26 PM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: DoughtyOne

I hope Eric Holder does a “Janet Reno”, and surrounds NBC news with tanks.

Honestly, these reporters make me sick. Watched them make excuses for the sleaze bag today. Sickening. So pissed I will never watch NBC again.


42 posted on 05/19/2013 5:50:37 PM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: Perdogg

So sue.


43 posted on 05/19/2013 5:50:45 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: riverrunner

This AP bs is a smoke screen to hide that Obama sicked his IRS on conservative groups to rig the election for Obama

funny how it broke at exactly the same time

also the media trotted out OJ and jolie at the same time


44 posted on 05/19/2013 5:52:44 PM PDT by Democrat_media (IRS rigged election for Obama and democrats by shutting down tea party)
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To: Perdogg

Is this blathering, or did someone at the AgitProp, Administration Press, finally WAKE UP?


45 posted on 05/19/2013 5:57:48 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Perdogg

Took him long enough to state the obvious. Comes from relying on wire services for his news.


46 posted on 05/19/2013 5:58:22 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Perdogg
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.

Hey AP...you've been Obamugabe's willing "Pravda" for 5+ years now...gonna finally wake up?

47 posted on 05/19/2013 6:05:18 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Eleutheria5
Yes, he and Obama just heard about it on the Friday five o'clock news.

And even then Brian Williams told them it was just Republicans "stirrin' thin's up."

48 posted on 05/19/2013 6:06:23 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: unixfox

Anyone remember this guy? Arrested for a "video" that Hitlery and Obamugabe used to divert attention away from their unwillingness to save human lives in Libya?

Yep...he is still in jail.

Hey AP, how about doing some stories exposing the lies of Hitlery and Obamugabe on THAT occasion?

You folks at the AP aren't the only ones being oppressed by this administration.

Hey, did you hear about the IRS targeting conservatives?

49 posted on 05/19/2013 6:10:57 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: 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.

Yup.

50 posted on 05/19/2013 6:14:08 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Perdogg
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51 posted on 05/19/2013 6:40:36 PM PDT by mandaladon (The truth about Benghazi is all I want)
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To: Bratch

“Chief Justice Roberts:
“It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.”

You hit on something very important. Roberts was very, very wrong. The electorate can be lied to and manipulated. The Constitution is not subservient to the results of any election. It cannot be changed legally without a Constitutional amendment, a process that was designed to be difficult, and to not include the President. The question before the court with the health care law had nothing to do at all with any election. It was a matter of simple Constitutionality. He absolutely did not do his job.

The Constitution protects the people of the United States. The job of the Supreme Court is to make sure that the laws of the land, and their interpretation and enforcement, are all consistent with the Constitution. In so doing, the Supreme Court is indeed sometimes responsible for protecting people from their political choices.


52 posted on 05/19/2013 6:45:05 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Perdogg

Blah blah blah.
(yawn)

I guess this assclown Pruitt has to pretend he’s “outraged” at his president, the guy he and the rest of the Democrat “mainstream” newsrooms worked so hard to elect and protect. LOL, he’ll get over it. And then it’s back to spinning for the Hillary campaign, and protecting her from Benghazi.


53 posted on 05/19/2013 6:46:18 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Perdogg

This can destroy a business. If it were a GOP President, he wouldn’t hesistate to sue and make this a meme. They’d have already called it worse than Watergate.


54 posted on 05/19/2013 7:20:17 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Perdogg

Ok, who told the AP the Constitution exists?


55 posted on 05/19/2013 7:25:03 PM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: Lancey Howard
"...pretend he’s “outraged” at his president..."

Yeah, that lawsuit should have been filed the day after the "seizure", I'm betting he could have actually cooperated with the government. Had this not become public, I don't think we hear a sniff from them.

56 posted on 05/19/2013 7:45:19 PM PDT by alancarp (Obama will grab your guns and ship them to Mexican drug mobs.)
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To: Repeal The 17th

You had better or you will never have another trigger to pull...ever...again.


57 posted on 05/19/2013 7:59:18 PM PDT by Shady (Abolish The IRS and Obamacare...it isn't going to cure anything...)
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To: DJ Frisat
"... 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."

Hear, hear.

58 posted on 05/19/2013 8:30:01 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid (Demand Common Sense Nut Control.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Anyone remember this guy? Arrested for a "video" that Hitlery and Obamugabe used to divert attention away from their unwillingness to save human lives in Libya?

Yep...he is still in jail.

So ..,.doesn't he have an attorney......should sue the feds for big bucks.

Maybe Issa can get him to testify.

59 posted on 05/19/2013 9:06:08 PM PDT by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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60 posted on 05/19/2013 10:38:46 PM PDT by devolve ( ------- I*ve gotcher magic bullshiite right here 0pansy ---------)
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