Posted on 11/08/2018 12:39:59 AM PST by Sir Napsalot
CNN national security and legal analyst Susan Hennessey is calling on White House press corp members to boycott future briefings after Jim Acosta, the network’s chief White House correspondent, had his press credentials revoked Wednesday evening. The suspension comes after a heated confrontation earlier between President Donald Trump and Acosta during a news conference.
Reacting to reports of Acosta’s credentials being revoked, a furious Hennessey tweeted: “This is a disgraceful and unacceptable attack on a free and independent press. The rest of the White House Press Corp should stand with their colleague @Acosta and refused to participate in any briefing until this appalling decision is reversed.”
The sparring between the pair occurred after Acosta asked President Trump about the caravan of migrants heading from Latin America to the southern U.S. border. When Acosta attempted to pose a followup question, President Trump said, “That’s enough” and a White House aide unsuccessfully tried to remove the microphone from Acosta’s hand.
“Honestly, I think you should let me run the country, you run CNN, and if you did it well, your ratings would be much better. Okay, that’s enough,” the president told Acosta after a brief exchange regarding the caravan.
Acosta, still refusing to allow other reporters to pose questions, then asked the president for his thoughts on special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. “I will tell you what, CNN should be ashamed of itself having you working for them–you are a rude, terrible person, you shouldn’t be working for CNN,” President Trump told the CNN reporter. “You’re a very rude person, the way you treat Sarah Huckabee is horrible, and the way you treat other people are horrible, you shouldn’t treat people that way.”
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The boycott threat was predictable. The press ooze around together like a pile of maggots. As long as they are boycotting you don’t have to talk to them. Trump could do a lot in peace for a while.
-—I remember a year or so back, when the administration toyed with closing up the White House Press room, and moving the briefing room to another building, altogether. The media went bonkers.——
Wtch their heads explode when you tell them that’s there’s nothing about a “White House Press Briefing” or “credentials” in the Constitution.
Trump could cancel and fire the entire Press Office, never hold a briefing, and hide in the White House for his entire term and never answer a single reporter’s question, and it wouldn’t violate the Constitution one iota.
Someone needs to inform these grandstanding jackasses that press access to the President is a traditional privilege, not a right.
But these Numpties have been so entitled for so long because they’ve rubbed elbows with inside the Beltway movers and shakers at cocktail parties and soirees for decades. They think they’re essential.
A press free of government interference is essential. They aren’t.
Only if they can still collect paychecks and keep their faces on TV.
They will then be known as the WH press corpse...
This is almost as good as a government shut down!!
If they don't cover Trump extensively, their ratings become the sludge in the sewer.
Ha ha ha! THEY are going to boycott? Thank God! Don’t they know that’s what we want, i.e., no press conferences?
What about the intern? What is her side of it? Or is she just a nobody to these self important a-holes?
Sarah would be happy. It would give her a day’s vacation to not put up with them.
I have long maintained the press should be rotated and the briefings held in a location other than the Whitehouse, that said— Acosta is nothing more than a partisan braying ass.
These briefings are worthless preening opportunities for these reporters. Nothing newsworthy is ever gained from them. The White House should end them and simply issue a statement every day.
Watch the press whine about that.
Excuse me, Susan, but where was CNN's outrage when Barack Obama unleashed the US Justice system on a Fox reporter?
REMEMBER THIS?---At his recent comeback appearance, Obama lacerated Pres Trump, saying: " I complained plenty about Fox News, but you never heard me call them enemies of the people.” (Source —--comeback rally at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).
REALITY CHECK----N-o-o-o-o, Obama 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, that labeled Rosen a criminal "co-conspirator." More likely Fox News said things or published stories Obama didn't like.......or got too close to unveiling his criminality.
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SOURCE theguardian.com
Circa 2013
Obama and AG Holder 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 the controversy over the Obama and Holder’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 a Post report is that the Obama DOJ’s surveillance of Rosen extended far beyond even what Obama 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, as the Obama and Holder submitted official court documents accusing a journalist of committing crimes by doing this. ---Snip---
Obama and Holder wouldnt lie to a court of law. Would they?
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The fact that he said “excuse me “ after the contact shows he knows he made contact. He should be charged with simple assault. #accoster
The Press’s disrespect of the President is appalling. Esp that cretin Acosta.
He should have had his credentials lifted months ago.
Remember the Press Corp with Obama.?
Sat there like kids in a classroom waiting for the ‘teacher’ to call on them.
What a contrast.
I hope they all walk out.
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There was a woman in the back of the room shouting. Wouldn’t shut up even when the President told her to.
She should have been escorted out.
Time to require civility in there.
These people are so childish. The left are literally like babies, it’s shocking really. I hope CNN does boycott, hell the entire country stopped watching them, have you seen their ratings?
Ms. Hennesy might want to lay off the “Hennesy” during working hours. Changing tenses in one sentence is not professional.
“The rest of the White House Press Corp should stand with their colleague @Acosta and refused to participate in any briefing until this appalling decision is reversed.” “Refusers” should be banned. Bring these cretans back down to reality!
Yeah,. that's the ticket. Boycott press briefings.
That'll show President Trump.
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot, you morons.
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