The Washington Insider – Media Resistance, Who really runs the government? - Daniel Greenfield

FrontPageMag ^ | September 12, 2018 | Daniel Greenfield

[Louis Foxwell]

Front Page mag - A Project of the David Horowitz Freedom Center

Daniel Greenfield Ping List Notification of new articles.

I am posting Greenfield's articles from FrontPage and the Sultan Knish blog. FReepmail or drop me a comment to get on or off the Greenfield ping list.

The Point is a collection of short articles posted on FrontPageMag by Greenfield on current topics. I recommend an occasional look at the Sultan Knish blog. It is a rich source of materials, links and more from one of the preeminent writers of our age.

FrontPage is a basic resource for conservative thought.

Lou

[Louis Foxwell]

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.

About Daniel Greenfield

To get on or off the Greenfield ping list please reply to this post or notify me by Freepmail.

Louis Foxwell

[StoneRainbow68]

Excellent. On the money.

[Louis Foxwell]

As Sarah daily rides herd on the city’s slime merchants, her boss displays his acute madness by accomplishing more of genuine benefit to the American people than any other president in our nation’s history.

[Liz]

Obama’s self-adoration “comeback” speech the other day was crammed with revisionism.

Valerie musta burned the midnight oil trying to paper over Obama’s most egregious acts.

The most jaw-dropping contention was backtracking his record on free speech:
“I complained plenty about Fox News,” St Obama explained, “but you never heard me threaten to shut them down, or call them ‘enemies of the people.’”

N-o-o-o-o, he didnt do that....he just unleashed the full force of the DOJ, in the person of AG Eric Holder, to pounce on Fox reporter James Rosen ......AND to intimidate Rosen’s family.

Holder and Obama issued a court order for Fox News reporter James Rosen’s emails, labeling Rosen a criminal “co-conspirator” under The Espionage Act.

---

theguardian.com Circa 2013

The Justice Department did more than seize a Fox News reporter’s emails while suggesting he was a criminal “co-conspirator” in a leak case — it did so under one of the most serious wartime laws in America, the Espionage Act. It is now well known that the Obama justice department has prosecuted more government leakers under the 1917 Espionage Act than all prior administrations combined - in fact, double the number of all such prior prosecutions. But as last week’s controversy over the Obama DOJ’s pursuit of the phone records of AP reporters illustrated, this obsessive fixation in defense of secrecy also targets, and severely damages, journalists specifically and the news-gathering process in general.

New revelations emerged yesterday in the Washington Post that are perhaps the most extreme yet when it comes to the DOJ’s attacks on press freedoms. It involves the prosecution of State Department adviser Stephen Kim, a naturalized citizen from South Korea who was indicted in 2009 for allegedly telling Fox News’ chief Washington correspondent, James Rosen, that US intelligence believed North Korea would respond to additional UN sanctions with more nuclear tests - something Rosen then reported. Kim did not obtain unauthorized access to classified information, nor steal documents, nor sell secrets, nor pass them to an enemy of the US. Instead, the DOJ alleges that he merely communicated this innocuous information to a journalist - something done every day in Washington - and, for that, this arms expert and long-time government employee faces more than a decade in prison for “espionage”.

The focus of the Post’s report yesterday is that the DOJ’s surveillance of Rosen, the reporter, extended far beyond even what they did to AP reporters. The FBI tracked Rosen’s movements in and out of the State Department, traced the timing of his calls, and - most amazingly - obtained a search warrant to read two days worth of his emails, as well as all of his emails with Kim. In this case, said the Post, “investigators did more than obtain telephone records of a working journalist suspected of receiving the secret material.” It added that “court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist”.

But what makes this revelation particularly disturbing is that Obama’s DOJ, in order to get this search warrant, insisted that Fox’s Rosen - a journalist - committed serious crimes. The DOJ specifically argued that by encouraging his source to disclose classified information - something investigative journalists do every day - Rosen himself broke the law. Describing an affidavit from FBI agent Reginald Reyes filed by the DOJ, the Post reports [emphasis added]:

“Reyes wrote that there was evidence Rosen had broken the law, ‘at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator’. That fact distinguishes his case from the probe of the AP, in which the news organization is not the likely target. Using italics for emphasis, Reyes explained how Rosen allegedly used a ‘covert communications plan’ and quoted from an e-mail exchange between Rosen and Kim that seems to describe a secret system for passing along information. . . .

However, it remains an open question whether it’s ever illegal, given the First Amendment’s protection of press freedom, for a reporter to solicit information.

No reporter, including Rosen, has been prosecuted for doing so.”

Under US law, it is not illegal to publish classified information. That fact, along with the First Amendment’s guarantee of press freedoms, is what has prevented the US government from ever prosecuting journalists for reporting on what the US government does in secret. This newfound theory of the Obama DOJ - that a journalist can be guilty of crimes for “soliciting” the disclosure of classified information - is a means for circumventing those safeguards and criminalizing the act of investigative journalism itself.

These latest revelations show that this is not just a theory but one put into practice, b/c the Obama DOJ submitted court documents accusing a journalist of committing crimes by doing this.—SNIP—

[GOPJ]

Take James Wolfe and New York Times reporter Ali Watkins, where the thirty year difference between the Senate Intelligence Committee security director and the 26-year-old Pulitzer nominee (the most disgraceful Pulitzer jorno who hadn’t actually colluded in Communist genocide) and his marriage didn’t obstruct trigger the scruples of media outlets getting the inside scoop between the sheets.

The New York Times verbally shrugged it off.

“Their relationship played out in the insular world of Washington, where young, ambitious journalists compete for scoops while navigating relationships with powerful, often older, sources.” Or as Harvey Weinstein called it, business as usual.

Maybe Bob Woodward can write a book on the journalist sluts, whores and butt boys of Washington DC??? Come on Bob, break out of your kiss Democrat butt mold... we'd like to know the truth and we'll buy the book.

Hello Washington Post and New York Times... Hey Maureen Dowd - defend the 'me too' women of the New York Times...

[Gene Eric]

The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat

[Albion Wilde]

the Old Ebtitt Grill

It's the Old Ebbitt, not Ebtitt. Right across the street to the east from the White House. And it's wonderful.

The Old Ebbitt

Teddy Roosevelt reputedly bagged the animal heads in the Main Bar.

[Albion Wilde]

Say what you will about Antifa and leftists who dress up as giant private parts ...

LOLs!!

[a little elbow grease]

"The anonymous op-ed is the tip of the iceberg. The swamp dwellers like the slime too much. And they will do whatever they can to stop elections from overturning their powers and privileges."

________________

[a little elbow grease]

theguardian.com Circa 2013

______________

Thanks for that.

[a little elbow grease]

"It's the Old Ebbitt, not Ebtitt. Right across the street to the east from the White House. And it's wonderful."

__________________

Oops..... but it was wonderful.

[Albion Wilde]

LOLs! Go, Flatbush!

[timestax]