Funny how the MSM never seemed bothered by Clinton's use of the IRS to attack their enemies. Many of us here are convinced that the MSM has been actively engaging in subversive activity. Subversive in the manner of deliberately trying to undermine the authority and credibility of this president during a time of war. The MSM has been actively engaged in doing all they can to undermine the effort to successfully prosecute this war. These activities warrant investigation. No one is saying that the freedom of the press should be impinged, just that it should not be used as a tool by liberals to sabotage this country.
Look: rightly or wrongly, when individual states misused their rights under the Constitution, a war was fought and amendments were passed which limited states' rights and which (perniciously, in my opinion) expanded the power of the Federal Government. A lot of the crappy thinking on the part of the Supremes appeals to the Reconstruction amendments for its pretense of legitimacy.
Rightly or wrongly, there will come limitations and hindrances on the precious (IMHO) freedom of the press because it as been abused for several decades and flagrantly abused for a couple of decades.
When you have reporters famously saying that their special status as reporters would forbid them from intervening if they knew US troops were walking into an ambush, the end of their freedom is near.
I try not to get all Biblical and prophetic, but the MSM has squandered its birth-right, and the time for reckoning is coming and the bill collector is at the door.
The sons of b*tches have thrown away something precious.