Posted on 05/14/2013 5:48:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Conservatives are not often fierce defenders of the media. But Monday’s news that the Justice Department obtained phone records for several Associated Press reporters as part of a national security leak probe raised a furor on the right, causing numerous Republicans to harshly criticize the Obama administration. While some may have genuine concerns about First Amendment protections, the right’s response also spotlighted an emerging Republican critique of Barack Obama as a Big Brother-style tyrant in charge of a power-abusing surveillance state.
Before the AP news broke, conservatives were already up in arms over word that the IRS had targeted conservative groups for additional scrutiny, as well as new details about the controversial editing of talking points about last September’s terror attacks in Benghazi. Taken together, Republicans said the stories paint a picture of an administration willing to monitor and even menace its opponents and critics. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa linked all three DC scandals in a statement to reporters, charging that “top Obama Administration officials increasingly see themselves as above the law.”
But the AP phone records produced a particularly surprising response. While Obama’s ardent prosecution of national security leaks has been well-documented in past years, particularly on the civil liberties left, it’s a relatively new cause for mainstream Republicans. “Whether it is secretly targeting patriotic Americans participating in the electoral progress or reporters exercising their First Amendment rights, these new revelations suggest a pattern of intimidation by the Obama Administration,” Doug Heye, a spokesman for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, said in a statement to TIME. “The First Amendment is first for a reason,” added Michael Steel, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner. “If the Obama Administration is going after reporters’ phone records, they better have a damned good explanation.”
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Libs really are not very good at logic, are they?
That’s a rhetorical question :)
Are you being just ever so silly?
Is that the same “Time” that once has a circulation of 10,000,000 but today boasts a circulation of 1,000?
Well, they are related aren’t they?
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/10/17/all-in-the-family-cheney-and-obama-related/
We can’t tell the truth about the Obama administration so
we’ll just make up stuff about the Republicans....TIME
My, my how the worm turns!
Conservatives are not near as mad about the AP phone taps as they are putting on. They are just sucking up to the media.
The piece was all over the map ... the ‘logic’ was stupid - strained - off the wall stuff... I remember when Time was run by intellectuals. That was a long time ago...
I just kept reading....waiting for the authors to make a point...........
so when will they make the leap and just blame Bush?
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