Posted on 05/27/2019 2:34:41 PM PDT by a little elbow grease
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 Obama’s 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 AP’s 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.
* On Obama’s watch, the U.S. ranking for press freedom dropped to 46th place.
Yet, despite the occasional grumbling by an editor or a reporter here or there, most of these attacks went unnoticed. Whenever Obama spoke to the press, he pretended to be their champions. And the press, in turn, acted like teenagers in love rather than professionals threatened by a paranoid control freak.
In fact, when reporters tried to complain about Obama’s treatment, the reporters themselves often got attacked.
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The MSM continues to be this nations' most evil adversary as they continue to ruin D.J.T. and promote everything destructive to the goodness of the nation.
"The powers that be" are the real enemies, but that does not let the press and teachers off the hook.
Everythng for their mental health is available for free ... they just are not encouraged to go look, read and heal themselves.
None so blind as those that WON'T see.
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I am wondering why the "search" function is not doing it's job here. Maybe it's me.
;-)
I always search first, but once in a while this happens.
It also doesn't always work, because it's a verbatim search (other than case on the letters, *I think*), so King and MLK will be two different searches, for example.
The lesson here is that ineligible usurpers are not bound by Constitutions that say they can’t be President.
BOTH parties conspired to violate the Constitution.
We are so much farther down the rabbit hole than most can accept.
Sure, Obama spied on thecmed is. But, since the media was 95% for him, it wasn’t spying, it was guidance. /S
“The MSM continues to be this nations’ most evil adversary as they continue to ruin D.J.T. and promote everything destructive...”
IMHO, the MSM is not RUINING our POTUS. They would certainly LIKE to ruin him, but have been miserable flops in the effort. At best, they’ve hindered his aganda somewhat, that’s all.
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