Say what?
Posted on 05/13/2013 5:59:46 PM PDT by jazusamo
The White House on Monday distanced President Obama from the Department of Justice’s seizure of Associated Press telephone records.
“Other than press reports, we have no knowledge of any attempt by the Justice Department to seek phone records of the AP,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said in a statement.
Carney said the White House had no involvement in the Justice effort.
“We are not involved in decisions made in connection with criminal investigations, as those matters are handled independently by the Justice Department,” he said.
The Justice Department said in a letter to the AP on Friday that it had gathered records on at least 20 office, cell phone, and home phone numbers — including the AP's desk in the House of Representatives press gallery.
The AP believes the records seizure was related to a leak investigation regarding a 2012 story about the CIA foiling a bomb plot in Yemen. The Obama administration has aggressively investigated the disclosure of classified anti-terror information in recent years, subpoenaing journalists from the New York Times and Washington Post.
In a letter of protest sent to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, AP President Gary Pruitt said there could be “no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications.”
“These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to AP's newsgathering operations and disclose information about AP's activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know,” Pruitt said.
In a statement, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia said it was “always careful and deliberate” in deciding to target media organizations.
News of Justice seizing the records comes as the administration is already dealing with accusations the IRS abused its power by targeting conservative groups for tax audits.
The administration is also under attack for its handling of the Benghazi attack.
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Depends on what Jarret types into his skull chip day by day. And I don’t think that statement is entirely fantasy/tinfoil. He may not be a cyborg, but he is definitely only a mouthpiece.
I love this “Oh it was Justice.” Justice works for YOU, Mr Obama. Or the Benghazi talking points...it was the CIA, it was State, it wasn’t the White House. Last I looked, State, CIA, and Admin were all part of the Executive Branch under, you guessed it, Obama.
When you elect a Chicago thug, you get Chicago thug politics.
For a guy “with an IQ off the charts”, “the smartest Man to ever be President”, “the most “transparent Administration ever”, he seems to know nothing despite his “omnipresence”. In other words, he is a crappy manager/CEO and needs to be FIRED.
No one seemed to know just how “Monica Lewinsky” got in the White House and how she was just wandering around, and all those FBI files, they didn’t know how they got there either.
Man! Obama doesn’t know ANYTHING! No matter what the lawbreaking, He “doesn’t know anything”
Prez Sgt. Schultz.
Say what?
It’s a good thing the President isn’t in charge of his own administration
/s
thinking the same thing, however he is more like Colonel Klink not knowing what is going on anywhere in Stalag 13 as commanding officer.
yeah show me his SAT score he is off the charts in the wrong direction i think his handlers barely got him to stop throwing crap through the bars but it wont be long before reverts
“The fish stinks form the head.” - George Putnam
lol, the talking head that said the off the charts comment had no proof and no idea of Barry’s IQ.
he was an ave student in high school, failing some classes his sr. year, yet he got a full-ride to Occidental. wonder how?
I had to see wht the DUmmies were saying ... LMAO!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014482501
and thats the first thread i encountered.
Jim Jones would have done well there.
it was all part of the plan those daily groomings
Good point, Klink is more the bumbling fool Obama.
Watergate was busted open by a disgruntled FBI official; we might just find that someone who knows something at the CIA has had enough and might start hanging with a reporter in a DC garage.
reportedly his grades were so bad, grandma dunham was worried.
Sort of explains how they keep the press so obedient.
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