Posted on 05/26/2019 8:04:42 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump might be openly hostile to the mainstream media, but it was the Obama administration that was engaged in a widespread effort to thwart the media. Which do you think is more harmful to a free press?
The full extent of Obamas actions against the press are only now coming to light.
The Columbia Journalism Review reports on a newly released government document showing that the Obama Justice Department engaged in a far more sweeping effort to spy on the Associated Press than previously believed.
In 2013, the Justice Department launched a brazen attack on press freedom, the CJR notes, issuing sweeping subpoenas for the phone records of The Associated Press and several of its reporters and editors as part of a leak investigation. At the time, the subpoenas were widely seen as a massive intrusion into newsgathering operations. Last month, we learned that they told only part of the story.
The spying came in the wake of the APs reporting on a thwarted Yemen-based bomb plot, which contained classified information about the CIA operation. Months later, the AP learned that the DOJ had vacuumed up two-months of phone records on 21 different lines trying to find the leaker.
Unprecedented Intrusion Upon learning this, the AP blasted the Obama Justice Department. APs President and CEO Gary Pruitt said the records collected could reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to APs newsgathering operations and disclose information about APs activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know.
Turns out, Pruitt should have been even more outraged. The new report, obtained by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and the Freedom of the Press Foundation, finds that the DOJ...
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Most people have totally underestimated the evil that is Eric Holder. He’s a closet anti-white racist and has been for decades. He was corrupt on the Whitey Bulger case unless Janet Reno handled that all by herself/Mueller/Weissman.
Reno was the primary corrupted AG on the LIUNA RICO Asset seizure operation run by the SDNY AGA Mary Jo White but I suspect Holder may have had a hand in it.
Terrorism trials. Laughable. Sentences, laughable. Just look at the John Lindh case for one
ISIS; He failed.
Attacks on the media were under his watch and knowledge.
Covering up the IRS scandal, his bailywick. Covering up th4 Clinton Crime Syndicate Foundation/CGI, his watch. covering up the destruction of Hillary’s server/emails, etc, most likely his watch or at the beginning of Loretta Lynch’s start as AG. He was her mentor. She got corrupted like anyone else who got touched by the Clinton/Obama crime syndicate.
And this is just off the top of my head. Holder was always in the thick of it (including Benghazi, Susan Rice the top Liar for Obama/Hillary and 9/11 investigations).
fast and furious, the panthers blocking the polls in Philly, stopping the instigation of mayor Kevin johnson sacramento
INVESTIGATION
Love these quotes from “The Three Lying Blowjobs”. Swallowswell is insane like his buttbuddy Schiff, his East Coast “fake Vietnam Veteran” Blumingidiot”, and Mr. “I like them young” Menendez.
They also have a band entitled “The Three Psychos”, playing at insane asylums everywhere. And all they play are “wind” instruments. How fitting.
It is easy to be the ‘press’ when one tells you what to say.
Thanks MAGAthon.
The Mooch has gone silent too.
The first few months of the Trump Presidency Barry Soetoro aka Barack Obama vacationed exclusively in non extradition spots. We will know the hunt is close when he goes back to that regimen along with the Clinton crime family.
Joe Scarborough knows Obama knows the truth about the Laurie Klausutis head stomp.
That was an easy one.
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