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Posted on 05/27/2019 12:17:17 PM PDT by Liz
STROLL DOWN MEMORY LANE--- REMEMBER THIS?---At a recent comeback to repaint his miserable 8-year term, Obama lacerated Pres Trump: " I complained plenty about Fox News, but you never heard me call them enemies of the people.”
REALITY CHECK----N-o-o-o-o, Obama 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, that labeled Rosen a criminal "co-conspirator." More likely Fox News said things or published stories Obama didn't like.......or got too close to unveiling his criminality.
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SOURCE theguardian.com
Circa 2013
Obama and AG Holder 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 the controversy over the Obama and Holder’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 a Post report is that the Obama DOJ’s surveillance of Rosen extended far beyond even what Obama 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, as the Obama and Holder submitted official court documents accusing a journalist of committing crimes by doing this. ---Snip---
Obama and Holder wouldnt lie to a court of law. Would they?
btt
Member of the press are like women. hey enjoy being used.
Obama was one paranoiac cuck of his own self, like all communists,
Why did Obama have to spy? Most of the press had their lips securely attached to his ass at all times.
They didn’t much like Sharyl Attkisson’s reports on Fast & Furious or Benghazi, either. The Gov’t went so far as to plant a classified document deep in her computer - if they needed to “take her down”, they had the ammo. Fortunately, it was discovered by forensic experts that were on her side.
Main page link with links to lawsuit evidence:
Ineligible usurpers do not heed laws.
The media is going to definitely come out looking like an abused wife who hangs on to her brutal guy because no one else will “love” her.
Decent people will shake their head and say, “You are pathetic.”
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Obama was spying on EVERYONE!! Remember what Crazy Maxine said.....it was the ONLY thig she’s ever said that was TRUE!
Also remember that they had that reporter Michael something killed in his car that burned up!
I’ll bet the DNC has this data now and still using it illegally. Could these probable threats be why mass media is so strongly Anti President Trump.
The word on that was Michael Hastings was on to something regarding Brennan.
Can’t vouch for the publication, but here’s a link that mentions it:
FLASHBACK : Reporter KILLED in “Freak Car Crash” While Working on CIA Exposé
BINGO!!! Brennan is as DIRTY as they come! I believe with all my heart that Michael Hastings was MURDERED!
You gotta love how they inserted the first paragraph just to smear Trump, in a report detailing the Obama era media harassment campaign.
Note how brazenly they blur the issue, too. They criticize Trump for being “second to Obama in prosecuting sources who leak classified data”. But that is totally different issue and totally different standard. Prosecuting leakers is the job of the DOJ. Prosecuting and spying on journalists is what the story is about and afaik only Assange has been prosecuted by Trump’s DOJ for reporting on information leaked by others.
Looks like Obama was like Willie Sutton who robbed banks b/c that’s where all the money was.
Obama spied b/c that our billion dollar intel apparat was at his disposal.
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