Posted on 05/19/2013 2:11:21 PM PDT by Perdogg
The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records "unconstitutional" and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal action against the Justice Department.
Gary Pruitt, in his first television interviews since it was revealed the Justice Department subpoenaed phone records of AP reporters and editors, said the move already has had a chilling effect on journalism. Pruitt said the seizure has made sources less willing to talk to AP journalists and, in the long term, could limit Americans' information from all news outlets.
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It is completely understandable and makes fully sense now in the context of thuggism, threats, intimidation , blackmail, official government obstruction and harassment of opponents along with IRS audits on the part of the Democrat Congress and the Obama Administration
Sniff, sniff... I smell a quiet behind-the-scenes agreement that patches things up and makes AP the friendly lapdog again. Access is everything, y’know.
If they thought it was UnConstitutional, why did AP give up any records in the first place?
So far, they won't use it because they see homosexuality as something noble and good - exactly the opposite of how God sees it.
The evidence they have about Obama's disgusting acts of perversion, however, is still in their hands. If things get bad enough, they can release it and cover it all from the angle that Obama betrayed his wife, Moochelle, and their daughters.
Obama could not answer that charge well enough for the public, and the AP and the rest of the media know it.
They didn’t. The subpoena was issued to the phone company or companies. What the JustUs Department did was FAIL to inform the AP of the subpoena.
Yes, the seizure was unconstitutional BUT GO ONE STEP FURTHER.
The DOJ was gatherring phone call material they could use against individual AP reporters NOT TO SILENCE THEM...........BUT TO MAKE THEM COMPLY WITH THE OBAMA VERSION OF THE NEWS, I.E. THE REAL PURPOSE OF THE DOJ WAS TO CONVERT AP INTO AN OBAMA PROPAGANDA MACHINE.
This is in fact what the CEO of AP is objecting to, or we would still be hearing........crickets.
In fascism, they subvert the subverters to their own cause, in a silent and sometimes deadly way.Very few AP reporters will now likely be safe in the ME.[Obama will assure that the Sunni fatwa hit list includes their names?]
Yeah, it’s a mess. I hear ya.
First they came...
Smoke screen. They’ll be back in line by the 2014 elections.
Absolutely. You are right on the money.
Obama will respond, in the manner of Josef Stalin: “So how many divisions does the AP have?”
:: Gary Pruitt said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal action ::
Gary’s name was seen in the “Pending Audits” file in Cincy...
Communists are like that. I don’t think the hundreds of millions of people killed by Communists in the past 100 years were all non-Communists.
“...AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional..”
No?!?! REALLY?!?!? You don’t say!
Not their Boy Wonder!!! He’d NEVER do anything unconstitutional!
Again...Welcome to the party, pal.
AP’s blowing smoke is all it is.
This is all about what Candor 7 posted (66)..The DOJ was gathering phone call material they could use against individual AP reporters NOT TO SILENCE THEM...........BUT TO MAKE THEM COMPLY WITH THE OBAMA VERSION OF THE NEWS, I.E. THE REAL PURPOSE OF THE DOJ WAS TO CONVERT AP INTO AN OBAMA PROPAGANDA MACHINE.”
No other reason to shake them down.
To Mr.Gary Pruitt, You’re the CEO of the Associated Press. May I suggest to you that “Payback is a Bitch”! Now that the Obama administration has you in it’s sights, What do you plan to do about it? Suggestion, start reporting and do some investigative journalism into the background of the President and his henchman. Bring down this administration!
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