Posted on 10/05/2018 2:46:52 AM PDT by grundle
Emails prove that the Obama administration pressured CBS News to stop airing reports by Sharyl Attkisson
On October 3, 2011, CBS News aired a story by Sharyl Attkisson which showed that Attorney General Eric Holder had lied under oath regarding Fast and Furious. The report can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JaDEShZIvQ
On October 4, 2011, Holder’s top press aide, Tracy Schmaler, wrote the following in an email to White House Deputy Press Sectary Eric Schultz:
“I’m also calling Sharryl’s [sic] editor and reaching out to Scheiffer. She’s out of control.”
Schultz responded with an email that said:
“Good. Her piece was really bad for the AG.”
Afterward, CBS made it harder and harder for Attkisson to do reports on Fast and Furious, and she eventually quit her job at CBS.
The Obama administration illegally hacked into and monitored Attkisson’s computer
In October 2014, it was reported that the Obama administration had illegally hacked into and monitored Attkisson’s computer.
The Obama administration illegally ignored a Freedom of Information request regarding its file on Attkisson
In December 2014, it was reported that the Obama administration had illegally ignored a Freedom of Information request regarding its file on Attkisson.
The Obama administration falsely said it did not have a file on Attkisson
In November 2015, the Obama administration falsely said that it did not have a file on Attkisson.
She never did get her hard drive back.
Hussein obama’s Administration BULLIED LIKE THE MOBS at taxpayer’s expense.
No, he didnt do that....he just unleashed the full force of the DOJ, in the person of AG Eric Holder to pounce on Fox reporter James Rosen ......
AND to intimidate Rosen's family.Holder and Obama issued a court order for Fox News reporter James Rosen's emails,
labeling Rosen a criminal "co-conspirator" under The Espionage Act.
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theguardian.com Circa 2013
The Justice Department did more than seize a Fox News reporter’s emails while suggesting he was a criminal “co-conspirator” in a leak case — it did so under one of the most serious wartime laws in America, the Espionage Act. It is now well known that the Obama justice department has prosecuted more government leakers under the 1917 Espionage Act than all prior administrations combined - in fact, double the number of all such prior prosecutions. But as last week’s controversy over the Obama DOJ’s pursuit of the phone records of AP reporters illustrated, this obsessive fixation in defense of secrecy also targets, and severely damages, journalists specifically and the news-gathering process in general.
New revelations emerged yesterday in the Washington Post that are perhaps the most extreme yet when it comes to the DOJ’s attacks on press freedoms. It involves the prosecution of State Department adviser Stephen Kim, a naturalized citizen from South Korea who was indicted in 2009 for allegedly telling Fox News’ chief Washington correspondent, James Rosen, that US intelligence believed North Korea would respond to additional UN sanctions with more nuclear tests - something Rosen then reported. Kim did not obtain unauthorized access to classified information, nor steal documents, nor sell secrets, nor pass them to an enemy of the US. Instead, the DOJ alleges that he merely communicated this innocuous information to a journalist - something done every day in Washington - and, for that, this arms expert and long-time government employee faces more than a decade in prison for “espionage”.
The focus of the Post’s report yesterday is that the DOJ’s surveillance of Rosen, the reporter, extended far beyond even what they did to AP reporters. The FBI tracked Rosen’s movements in and out of the State Department, traced the timing of his calls, and - most amazingly - obtained a search warrant to read two days worth of his emails, as well as all of his emails with Kim. In this case, said the Post, “investigators did more than obtain telephone records of a working journalist suspected of receiving the secret material.” It added that “court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist”.
But what makes this revelation particularly disturbing is that Obama's DOJ, in order to get this search warrant, insisted that Fox's Rosen - a journalist - committed serious crimes. The DOJ specifically argued that by encouraging his source to disclose classified information - something investigative journalists do every day - Rosen himself broke the law. Describing an affidavit from FBI agent Reginald Reyes filed by the DOJ, the Post reports [emphasis added]:
“Reyes wrote that there was evidence Rosen had broken the law, ‘at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator’. That fact distinguishes his case from the probe of the AP, in which the news organization is not the likely target. Using italics for emphasis, Reyes explained how Rosen allegedly used a ‘covert communications plan’ and quoted from an e-mail exchange between Rosen and Kim that seems to describe a secret system for passing along information. . . .
However, it remains an open question whether it’s ever illegal, given the First Amendment’s protection of press freedom, for a reporter to solicit information.
No reporter, including Rosen, has been prosecuted for doing so.”
Under US law, it is not illegal to publish classified information. That fact, along with the First Amendment’s guarantee of press freedoms, is what has prevented the US government from ever prosecuting journalists for reporting on what the US government does in secret. This newfound theory of the Obama DOJ - that a journalist can be guilty of crimes for “soliciting” the disclosure of classified information - is a means for circumventing those safeguards and criminalizing the act of investigative journalism itself.
These latest revelations show that this is not just a theory but one put into practice, b/c the Obama DOJ submitted court documents accusing a journalist of committing crimes by doing this.—SNIP—
The tinpot Halfrican’s Third World operations——getting rid of people standing in his way.
The Obama administration illegally hacked into and monitored Attkisson’s computer———In October 2014, it was reported that the Obama administration had illegally hacked into and monitored Attkisson’s computer.
The Obama administration illegally ignored a Freedom of Information request regarding its file on Attkisson-——In December 2014, it was reported that the Obama administration had illegally ignored a Freedom of Information request regarding its file on Attkisson.
The Obama administration falsely said it did not have a file on Attkisson——— In November 2015, the Obama administration falsely said that it did not have a file on Attkisson.
And no one is held accountable.
btt
It’s funny - I saw the ‘Trump’s a sexist meanie’ for mocking a stupid White House reporter who happened to be a female - even as they ignored Trump doing the exact same to male airhead Acosta et al.
The same leftists said nothing about Attkisson despite a movie-like coordinated, targeted spy campaign against her.
bammy should have been in jail.
Brennen, Lois Lerner, Lynch, Comey, Clapper, McCabe, Strozk etc., we all know what these low levels did and they will never be held accountable,
President Trump and his family on the other hand better explain their Russia collusion or get perp walked,
This is FAR from over. Accountability sometimes takes longer.
I always believed “ no one was above the law.” Clearly it doesn’t apply to those employed by the fed govt.
I pray you are right!
Isn’t it amazing how similar Democrats are to Kim Jun UN of N. KOREA?
Thanks grundle.
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