Roger Ailes' letter to Fox employees

Foxnews.com ^ | May 23, 2013 | Roger Ailes

[Timber Rattler]

Dear colleagues,

The recent news about the FBI’s seizure of the phone and email records of Fox News employees, including James Rosen, calls into question whether the federal government is meeting its constitutional obligation to preserve and protect a free press in the United States. We reject the government's efforts to criminalize the pursuit of investigative journalism and falsely characterize a Fox News reporter to a Federal judge as a "co-conspirator" in a crime. I know how concerned you are because so many of you have asked me: why should the government make me afraid to use a work phone or email account to gather news or even call a friend or family member? Well, they shouldn’t have done it. The administration’s attempt to intimidate Fox News and its employees will not succeed and their excuses will stand neither the test of law, the test of decency, nor the test of time. We will not allow a climate of press intimidation, unseen since the McCarthy era, to frighten any of us away from the truth.

[NFHale]

“..You left out one brave, hard-hitting Patriot...I can’t think of his name..is it Trey Gower or Gowen?...”

It’s Trey Gowdy, and the omission was not intentional. Hope he removes Linseed.

[fifedom]

The Obama regime is on a political witch hunt for communists and communist sympathizers?

You and Ailes are wrong about McCarthy. He was not on a 'witch hunt.' The US government WAS (and now is) shot through with communists. From Harry Dexter White, senior advisor to Roosevelt and Truman, who 'negotiated' key agreements with the Soviets while all the time a Soviet agent:

http://www.conservapedia.com/Harry_Dexter_White

to Henry Wallace, Roosevelt's vice-president who was also a communist.

The leftists in the media have smeared McCarthy but at least here we should have the truth.

[equaviator]

The truth, however absurd is still the truth.

[itssme]

That’s it..thanks.