[GOPJ]

The MSM has little respect for themselves - look how they sell themselves to any democrat with a yearning... so why should any other group show them respect? And yeah, that includes the government who uses them - - and uses them badly.

Not saying they're cheap and easy...

[RC one]

Obviously they were just securing the homeland against dangerous journalistic threats. Nothing to see here folks. Move along.

[gaijin]

THIS kind of thing is how there was a holocaust.

It is happening HERE.

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It has to dawn on some of these reporters that Great Leader and the myriad sub-levels of authority we all now live under are not their bestest-buddies. Either that, or they will developed battered-woman syndrome and just take the occasional home-correction as it comes.

[NormsRevenge]

Hmmmmm,,, harassing the media? In 2013?

I’m shocked! What took ‘THEM’ so long?

[AppyPappy]

The lament has gone up from the MSM

“Why couldn’t Bush be President?”

[jazusamo]

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[Alaska Wolf]

Homeland Security officials have acknowledged that their agents seized Ms. Hudson’s files during the execution of a search warrant in early August obtained by Maryland State Police in an unrelated investigation of guns owned by her husband

Is it illegal to own guns in Maryland?

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

(from the article):"Homeland Security officials also have acknowledged that they briefly reviewed the materials to determine whether they contained any sensitive information, even though the search warrant did not authorize seizure of the documents. "

In other words, illegaly obtained information was not returned persuant to a judge's order.
Freedom of the Press is now only a memory.
As stated by another Freeper : "When the government breaks the law, then there isn’t any law. Only a fight for survival."

"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty." Thomas Jefferson

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[BlessedBeGod]

Was the primary reason for the raid actually the confiscation of her notes to see who her sources were, and the investigation of guns owned by her husband just used as an excuse?

[pierrem15]

It appears more and more likely that the Feds contacted MD state police to conduct an illegal search motivated by her reporting on the Air Marshals.

First, the state police had no right to examine (let alone seize) her notes for an investigation of an alleged _firearms_ violation-- a search warrant does not authorize a fishing expedition.

Second, the fact that the notes-- and apparently nothing else-- were examined by DHS indicates that the notes were the real target of the search.

More evidence that all law enforcement agencies divide everyone in two ways: lords (themselves and other government employees), and peasants without rights.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The thing about such authoritarians is that they are easy to dupe. A journalist could have a hoot, running bogus stories about anonymous government leakers, then keep a set of phony notes that implicate administration higher ups.

Imagine how quick the DHS would be to investigate if the leakers were people like Van Jones, Bill Ayers, Nancy Pelosi, etc.? Because in the final analysis, this is not about secrets, but about politics.

You can even turn the monster against itself. If you’re raided by the DHS, implicate the FBI, the NSA, the CIA, etc.

[gaijin]

**FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION**

A DOMESTIC POLICE FORCE JUST AS POWERFUL, JUST AS WELL FUNDED AS THE US MILITARY...

[at the investment firm] I FELT LIKE AN OPERATVE ACTING FROM BEHIND ENEMY LINES...

[butterdezillion]

Charge DHS with theft and throw them in jail. Period.

[liberalh8ter]

The officials have not explained, however, why federal agents attended a raid that involved state laws or why police kept reporting materials for more than a month that were not covered by the judge’s order.

No explanation necessary; the individuals who would be confidential journalistic sources got the message.......loud and clear.

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