Posted on 05/20/2013 2:18:18 PM PDT by markomalley
The Justice Department spied extensively on Fox News reporter James Rosen in 2010, collecting his telephone records, tracking his movements in and out of the State Department and seizing two days of Rosen’s personal emails, the Washington Post reported on Monday.
In a chilling move sure to rile defenders of civil liberties, an FBI agent also accused Rosen of breaking anti-espionage law with behavior that—as described in the agent's own affidavit—falls well inside the bounds of traditional news reporting. (Disclosure: This reporter counts Rosen among his friends.)
UPDATE: Fox News responds with a blistering statement that asserts Rosen was "simply doing his job" in his role as "a member of what up until now has always been a free press.”
The revelations surfaced with President Barack Obama’s administration already under fire for seizing two months of telephone records of reporters and editors at the Associated Press. Obama last week said he makes “no apologies” for investigations into national security-related leaks. The AP's CEO, Gray Pruitt, said Sunday that the seizure was "unconstitutional."
The Obama administration has prosecuted twice as many leakers as all previous administrations combined.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Brit Hume: ‘Chilling’ Search Of Fox Reporter Shows DOJ Treats ‘Ordinary News Gathering As Crime’Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume had strong words to describe the news that his colleague James Rosen was subject to a federal leak investigation, telling America’s Newsroom that the story may indicate that the Obama Justice Department wants to treat ordinary news-gathering activities as a crime.
As we reported earlier this morning, Fox News’ chief Washington correspondent Rosen was investigated in 2009 after being suspected by Justice of receiving secret information from government sources on North Korea. As part of their investigation, Justice tracked his movements within the State Department, traced the timing of telephone calls with State Department sources, and obtained a warrant to search his personal emails.
Hume told Fox host Martha MacCallum that this procedure was “unusual” because, in this case, “the investigation spilled over into a search through Rosen’s personal emails.” In order to obtain those, the DOJ had to go to a judge to issue subpoenas for the emails by alleging that Rosen was “involved in a criminal conspiracy” of sorts.
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The subpoena for Rosen's gmail account is at The New Yorker.
What? They weren’t monitoring Chris Matthews?!
Now we know how the French felt waiting for the Allies to come.
Who, in the US, is the Maquis?
Fortunately for Obama, that doesn't include Democrats.
You could call this a conspiracy but a proper conspiracy require an intelligent leader and a plan two thing lacking in this sad little administration.
Now we know how the French felt waiting for the Allies to come.
And like it was behind the Iron Curtain. Poland, 1947.
I wouldn’t mind spying on Megyn Kelly......
Correspondents dinner
He wants to double down? IMPEACH NOW.
Thanks markomalley.
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