Posted on 10/11/2013 11:05:20 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
In its first report on press freedom in the United States, the Committee to Protect Journalists warns Obama has ushered in a paralyzing climate of fear for both reporters and their government sources. Among the case it details: six government employees - plus two contractors, including Edward Snowden - have faced felony criminal prosecutions since 2009 under the 1917 Espionage Act for leaking classified information to the press, compared with three such prosecutions in ALL previous U.S. administrations.
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Nixon used the IRS on people and the Fairness Doctrine against NBC News in his day.
Its worse in these NSA data mining days for sure......
Nixon was a babe in the woods compared to Obama and goons...
They supported Obungle. Reap what you sow commie state run propaganda machine.
DemocracyNow is a hard left site. FYI.
The media is controlled by a spoiled brat who will punish them for crossing him, and they like it.
The “news” media people are too far up the Zero Kings backside to know or care.
Can you cite Nixon using the IRS against his enemies?
Why is it that far-left, far-right, independent conservatives, Libertarians and Tea partiers are all in agreement that the Obama adm. seems to be running roughshod over freedom of the press?
Notice that the barely left of center and barely right of center (and their MSM mouthpieces) are pretty much silent on this or support Obama?
IOW, everyone that ISN’T Establishment Dem or GOP-e is putting out stories like Democracy Now is doing here...
Democracy Now, The Guardian, Daily Mail UK, and others - who are hard-left - have really been going after the Obama adm. on this issue and a host of others lately.
The former Air Force Chief of Staff General Curtis Lemay was audited by the IRS during the first term of Nixon.
Lemay wanted to bomb Vietnam in a way to win the war and ran as the running mate of George Wallace (3rd party ) in 1968 for president.
He thought he was targeted to keep him out of politics.
I thought the accusation against Nixon was more of an implied threat to use the IRS against his “enemies”, rather than it actually happening.
Barry ‘Hugo Chavez’ 0bama, more like. I can’t believe what this criminal is getting away with, and his minions are just as bad. No arrests yet at the IRS, and yet they’ll police 0bamacare? Dictatorship is here. It IS here. Benghazi is dead and gone. Holder using his agency to spy on Fox News during the 2012 election, and with a bogus warrant also goes unpunished.
Correct. I can’t find any instance of any audits actually ocurring.
In fact, the IRS chief in 1972 told Nixon to cram it.
Barry’s really overstepped the bounds...to get EVERYBODY but the needy bugged...
No wonder hes looking so STRESSED!!
I could easily see Obama using the FCC to reinstate some type of Fairness Regulations to muzzle talk radio and he already has the power to shut down the Internet for unspecified “emergencies”. We have also seen where Obama has used the IRS to harass and this silence conservative groups.
When are these skid marks on Journalism's shorts going to look at who really compares to Obama?
FDR.
Once again I say (the scroll bar is right over there -->) the left is moving rapidly to initiate a Great Sedition Trial of 2014 that matches what FDR tried to do to opponents with the Great Sedition Trial of 1944.
FDR failed. Obama might succeed the Establishment today is arguably aging 1960s New Left Marxist-Alinsky radical, campus spoiled brats and their ideological issue. The Establishment in FDR's days did not go along and eventually stopped:
". . . one of the blackest marks on the record of American jurisprudence. In the legal world, none can recall a case where so many Americans were brought to trial for political persecution and were so arrogantly denied the rights [guaranteed] an American citizen under the Constitution.”
The radical, campus spoiled brats will praise Obama one of their own. The most enthusiastic among them will be the employees of the MSM.
Correct.
IIRC the impeachment document used the word "endeavored" to do this and do that.
And I remember the Saturday Night Massacre.. IIRC his immediate staff were about the only ones to go along with Nixon against the Administration's enemies -- and there were some among them who turned against him. John Dean for example.
The employees of the MSM hated Nixon.. I recall TV network evening "news" when the entire show was about getting Nixon (Watergate).
Nixon had one of his subordinates request an audit against one of his opponents. The result was that NIXON was audited. The Dems have always controlled that agency, and have used it regularly against conservatives. They were very active doing Clinton’s bidding in the 90’s.
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