To paraphrase Maureen Dowd (heaven forfend!)
"It didn't happen, it didn't happen, it didn't happen. It was a long time ago."
Posted on 05/13/2013 1:39:46 PM PDT by redreno
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news.
The records obtained by the Justice Department listed incoming and outgoing calls, and the duration of each call, for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and the main number for AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP.
In all, the government seized those records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. The exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period is unknown but more than 100 journalists work in the offices whose phone records were targeted on a wide array of stories about government and other matters.
(Excerpt) Read more at bigstory.ap.org ...
for one thing it’s gonna fire-up the Free Julian Assange crowd to about 11....
This will tick off ALL news orgs. It could be AP today, “me” tomorrow. If D-friendly AP is treated this way by Obama’s DOJ, what’s to stop a future DOJ under a future R POTUS from being subjected to the same treatment Say a future Nixon going after WaPo reporters’ phone calls/emails.
I’d like to know what judge signed off on letting DOJ have this info and under what law(s).
LMAO - AP, you better put some ice on that, lol...
commie’s are such morons. they just love it when this stuff happens to us and are so stupid they don’t understand that in reality, they’ll be in the gas chamber before us.
Man! I’m really hard to convince. My take is...it’s another red herring, a la the IRS tempest in a teapot. The AP? Come on; the AP IS the leftist media. What do they care if Holder listens in?
The O administration is still deflecting from the biggest story so far: Benghazi. There is SO MUCH to uncover, of which any one thing could fatally damage the entire O administration and what it has done and is doing to the military...and our Republic!
Looks like its tied to a previous attempt of The Dear Leader to downplay Al Qaeda shenanigans.
Yes.
Yes, that will certainly be interesting.
Oh boy, bring the popcorn, this is going to be great. Obama decides to cut off the hand that protects him. There will be some doosey press conferences in the future. Ozero will not be present of course, he will trot out his bispectaled potato headed mouth piece Carney.
I hope Suzie Sweelies likes very rough sex, she's gonna get a lot of it!
As someone on here said (maybe it was you) the progressives don’t even consider Republicans as a credible threat anymore and the internal purges have begun....
I feel no joy; rather a great dread of what may be on the horizon. Forces more powerful than Obama are on the move.
Got to pick your battles, right now, we got to get him out or at least diminish his power to that of being a fence post. We have three or even four good shots now with the AP matter rearing up. If enough people get the message, the mid terms could be a blood bath BUT if he beats us back on these issues, he will ride off to victory and we are done.
I won’t share my dark thoughts that are running through my mind. I will leave it at - I am praying for his physical safety.
LOL!
To paraphrase Maureen Dowd (heaven forfend!)
"It didn't happen, it didn't happen, it didn't happen. It was a long time ago."
(This picture was taken back when the relationship was more, how shall I put it?, consensual)
Bracken need as re-write : )
Bracken Ping
Ariel, Fidel, whatever...
I suspect the same.
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