Posted on 05/31/2013 12:25:19 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder pledged to protect the first amendment rights of the media at a closed door, off-the-record meeting. The meeting took place with the media after it was revealed that the DOJ subpoenaed thousands of pages of AP reporter's phone records and obtained a secret warrant for FNC's James Rosen's (and his parents) phone records, emails and tracked his movement.
Holder "pledged Thursday to take concrete steps to address concerns that the Justice Department has overreached in its leak investigations and said officials would seek procedural and possibly legislative changes to protect journalists First Amendment rights."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Holder will soon break that promise. Here in CA the State Senate passed eight (8) new anti-gun laws, including one that requires ammo registry and an ammo permit to buy ammunition. Once the 2nd Amendment is no longer protected, the 1st Amendment will follow.
I would trust the fox watching the hen house, before I would trust Mr. AP & FoxNews Wiretapper.
“Yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder pledged to protect the first amendment rights of the media at a closed door, off-the-record meeting. “
1. It wasn’t the “media”. It was only a few of them.
2. Why is this news (an AG saying he would follow the Bill of Rights)?
3. Why does an AG even feel compelled to state the obvious - that an AG must follow the Bill of Rights?
4. Does this mean he will follow the 1st Amendment from now on and acknowledges that he didn’t follow it before?
5. why is this being provided via off-the-record session? is the message here that he can’t say something this “extreme” in an on-the-record session?
Impeach this evil SOB
Amen. Hope he hates breaking rocks.
All good points the MSM wouldn’t touch.
Lie-beral Argument: The founders didn’t know about Twitter, Facebook, Websites, Radio and Television.....
Because they think they can ban an AR-15 because the founders never knew of them, just you wait, the morons in the Main Stream Media press will cut their own throat by claiming the same stuipid logic applies to their own trade.....
But talking down to muslims is criminal.
What amendment was that again???
Well if the Liberals will let us have “Musketts” Can we use a old timey press to print out anti Mooselimb pamphlets and there would be nothing they could do about it.....
Just the press part, the rest of the Constitution can go to hell.
Yeahsure.
Holder has always been a vigorous defender of his right to free speech. I’m not certain why the Little People feel it applies to us too.
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Of course he will. Unfortunately he thinks the 1st ammendment only protects speech he agrees with.
If you have to assure the media you’re going to do your job...
Yes, and he gave the journalists permission to say he believes in a free press. That's how they were able to report that part - he gave them 'permission'...
Nice of Holder to give the media sycophants “permission” to report that
he believes in Free Speech.
The vile, contemptible, nothing is lower Dick Durbin says the rest of us non media slobs don’t have First Amendment Rights. Will Holder denounce him?
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