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FBI Opens News Corp. Hacking Probe (Regime opens direct attack on 1st Amendment)
The Wall Street Journal ^ | July 14, 2011 | Devlin Barrett

Posted on 07/14/2011 1:29:58 PM PDT by abb

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To: cripplecreek

I’m thinking FOX would have restricted Beck even more after this if Beck was still with them?


21 posted on 07/14/2011 1:51:21 PM PDT by Errant
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To: DannyTN
I don’t see how investigating invasions of privacy by hacking phones is an attack on the First Amendment.

Then why didn't we see an FBI investigation of the NY Times when it disclosed information gotten by illicit means?

22 posted on 07/14/2011 1:51:21 PM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: abb

I thought freedom of the press was an unimpeachable right in America. Remember when the SLIMES of New York published Iraq war details? No liberal outburst then.....or when the Washington comPost published the name of a CIA operative? Liberals used that to attack a conservative, but NEVER condemned the paper. How about CNN’s Tailhook lies? Regrettable, but CNN still was revered.

No sirree Bob, news organizations are SACRED.


23 posted on 07/14/2011 1:52:06 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Deb

Sorry if I wasn’t clear... I’m skeptical even about the British part of the story. What in heck would Murdoch & Co. DO with the intercepts if they got them? Publishing them would of course land them in dutch (Murdoch is not THAT stupid), and they are useful for darn little else if anything.


24 posted on 07/14/2011 1:53:27 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: abb

Soros/Media Matters HIT JOB!


25 posted on 07/14/2011 1:54:24 PM PDT by Samurai_Jack (ride out and confront the evil!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

will they investigate other MSM reporters for the same thing?

how many others like cnn, msnbc, cbs, nyt, wpo, yahoo, google, were doing the exact same thing?


26 posted on 07/14/2011 1:55:12 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: trumandogz
...but now people wish to condone the hacking of 9/12 Victim’s voice mails.

You have proof of this, or are you merely parroting what some left-wing rag in England alleges?

27 posted on 07/14/2011 1:55:57 PM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: brent13a
Oh, please....all the Brit tabs do stuff like this and this is a story from '07, with people already in jail.

It was Piers Morgan, when he was running the Mirror, who authorized the use of fake pictures showing British soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners. There is no one who thought he didn't know they were fake.

Murdoch bought the New of the World (and the London Times), he didn't create it.

28 posted on 07/14/2011 1:56:05 PM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: abb

Failure to investigate the first crime, does not make investigating the second crime wrong.


29 posted on 07/14/2011 1:56:10 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Exactly. Sorry if I misread.


30 posted on 07/14/2011 1:57:39 PM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

“I thought freedom of the press was an unimpeachable right in America.”

Do you believe the press has the right to break into your home, place cameras in your bedroom?

Do you believe that guy had the First Amendment Right to hack into Sarah Palin’s email?


31 posted on 07/14/2011 1:58:31 PM PDT by trumandogz
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To: DannyTN
Failure to investigate the first crime, does not make investigating the second crime wrong.

But it does prove political motivation for the second prosecution, doesn't it? Which is what this is all about.

32 posted on 07/14/2011 1:58:54 PM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: abb

Yes they will try....

But if they do it , you are done !

This is an act of war,”cultural” war i mean, and the answer must be proportionate at least.

Hope that Murdock will fight back and that the Tea Party,Republicans,Conservatives,independents,libertarians and all the free and sane people will stand up ...


33 posted on 07/14/2011 2:00:56 PM PDT by Ulysse
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To: Deb

The claims of so called “hacking” aren’t quite honest. Last night I was watching parliament argue over it in great britain. What a couple of tabloid reporters did was try one of a couple 4 digit voicemail access codes that are commonly factory installed on cell phones. Apparently the victims never set up their own access codes. I also got the impression that its pretty common behavior among journalists in Britain.

As far as the rumors of the same in the USA, I’ve got lots of rumors of wrongdoing that the FBI is welcome to investigate if they wish.


34 posted on 07/14/2011 2:01:08 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: abb

They shut down a major newspaper over the hacking of a murder victim’s voicemail.

And I will stand with Perter King in that there should be an investigation to determine if accounts in the US were hacked.


35 posted on 07/14/2011 2:02:58 PM PDT by trumandogz
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To: trumandogz
And I will stand with Perter King in that there should be an investigation to determine if accounts in the US were hacked.

And stand alongside the Regime, too.

36 posted on 07/14/2011 2:06:52 PM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: abb
But it does prove political motivation for the second prosecution, doesn't it? Which is what this is all about.

Cry me a river. If conservatives need Fox to survive, they're even more screwed than they know.

37 posted on 07/14/2011 2:12:54 PM PDT by Romulus (The Traditional Latin Mass is the real Youth Mass)
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To: abb
"But it does prove political motivation for the second prosecution, doesn't it? Which is what this is all about. "

No it doesn't, it might prove political favoritism for overlooking the first offense. You need a lot more cases of non-prosecution of phone hacking to be able to claim this is selective prosecution.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

38 posted on 07/14/2011 2:13:01 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: cripplecreek

That’s interesting. I suspected “hacking” would turn out to be just another example of “lazy language” by the scribbling class.


39 posted on 07/14/2011 2:13:23 PM PDT by Oratam
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To: trumandogz
They shut down a major newspaper

I'd heard about NOTW -- didn't know there was a "major newspaper" involved too! ;-)

40 posted on 07/14/2011 2:14:57 PM PDT by Romulus (The Traditional Latin Mass is the real Youth Mass)
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