[llevrok]

Get a load of who is backing Baghdad Jim !!!

[llevrok]

WA State Ping

[Tallguy]

Amazing to me that the Media can get its collective panties in a wad about illegal government wiretaps (Patriot Act), and yet have no problems using the product of a wiretap to go after political enemies.

[P-40]

McDermott, D-Wash., had merely received the tape from a Florida couple

Sounds like a warrant-less wiretap case. :)

[IslandJeff]

Gee, bud, you sound surprised.

[Publius6961]

In arguments that evoked the Pentagon Papers and other press freedom cases, lawyer Christopher Landau said McDermott, D-Wash., had merely received the tape from a Florida couple and therefore had done nothing wrong.

That has got to be the lamest excuse masquerading as legal argument that I have ever heard!

I did nothing wrong! I just received the $100,000 taken in the Florida bank heist from someone else!

Is anyone out there totally whacked out by the nonsense of the last few years being accepted as legal argument and forming the basis of profoundly disturbing legal decisions?

[Lancey Howard]

Lawyers for 18 news organizations — including ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, The Associated Press, The New York Times and The Washington Post — have filed a brief backing McDermott, who gave reporters access to a recording of a 1996 call involving then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga.

Now, imagine for one second that it was Boehner who had turned over tapes of McDermott to Free Republic.....

[Siena Dreaming]

McDermott must have been just thrilled when he saw Boehner ascend to the House Majority Chair.

Hehe.

[llevrok]

Ping For Illegal Wire Taps

[taxcontrol]

"You are basically saying Congress can indict the media if it is deemed they knew the information was unlawfully obtained,"

Well DUH!

The outcome of this ruling is very important for those that see the press trafficking in national secretes. If this ruling goes against McDermott, then the press could be held LIABLE for any article that they knew was obtained illegally and published anyway.

[Buck W.]

""You are basically saying Congress can indict the media if it is deemed they knew the information was unlawfully obtained," he said. "

YES! That's what we're saying!
It's incredible that the press backs McDermott when he hands them an illegally obtained recording, yet are collectively indignant over legal terrorist wiretapping.

[scory]

I am to the point now that "restrictions" on the media are starting to sound good. It would be quite different if the "media" was dedicated to fact-finding and straight reporting. But the "media" referrenced here is the mouthpiece of politcal parties and pressure groups that poses as an organ of "unbiased reporting". This media attacks free speech (by anyone they disagree with) and promotes regulation of speech (as long as it is that of their enemies) so they are, in my estimation, more an agent of harm than good. I could care less if they have problems collecting the slop they pass off as "news".

[mrsmith]

"the 1996 call"

10 years he's been successfully running from his crime!

Bleak House of Representatives...
"...The one great principle of the law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble."

[Hendrix]

I highly doubt the Florida couple just happened to tape those calls. I suspect that some democrat group did it (followed and purposely recorded the phone calls) and then passed it off as just some Florida couple who happened to get it off the airway and just happened to be recording it.

[Springman]

Bump for later.

[talleyman]

Is this the 9th Circus? If so, Baghdad Jim will walk...