[devane617]

I smell a hidden story here but it's above my pay grade of understanding. I need a sharper FR type to break this down for me.

[caww]

Seems more like an investigation because Journalists are doing everything BUT their jobs.

[Feckless]

Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press reporter

Not required to carry a copy of "Das Kapital" or wear a Hammer and Sickle lapel pin anymore....

[Lockbox]

Jeffrey Rambo, an agent who acknowledged running checks on journalists in 2017, told federal investigators the practice is routine. “When a name comes across your desk you run it through every system you have access too, that’s just status quo, that’s what everyone does,” Rambo was quoted by Yahoo News as saying.

I believe what he said was “ve vas just following orders, ja.......”.

[HighSierra5]

FBI. Federal Bureau of Infamy.

[Artemis Webb]

If you’re a conservative the press is perfectly comfortable with Homeland Security crawling up our arse and into our daily lives. But if one of their own is so much as run through a database it’s an “abuse of power”.

Suck it up snowflakes.

[existentially_kuffer]

Better headline:
“Trust the FBI, CIA, and NSA to be working in the interest OF?”

[moovova]

So, let me get this straight..

A US government agency, the “Customs and Border Protection” unit, which ISN’T doing their named job of protecting the US border (see Southern Border), but IS investigating US journalists. And now US journalists, which AREN’T doing their job of reporting on the invasion of our unprotected Southern border...are upset because the CBP is investigating US journalists, and ARE NOW reporting on the CBP.

I don’t see the problem.

[Twotone]

“When a name comes across your desk you run it through every system you have access too, that’s just status quo, that’s what everyone does,”

No wonder they never catch any actual terrorists. They’re looking at everybody else.

[AndyTheBear]

Yahoo news is concerned about the FBI running a check on journalists and makes a story out of it? Ok fine I guess. But its not like the journalists were raided with property seized like happened to Project Veritas. Why wasn’t this minor little alleged FBI story not put it in context of that fat more serious and obvious FBI misconduct against journalists?

[MrBambaLaMamba]

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[Leep]

Wonder what Rambo found?

BTW it didn’t bother the when Trump went through far worse.

[virgil]

Why just 2017? Do they actually think these out of control agencies have stopped doing this now?

[GOPJ]

The AP obtained a redacted copy of a more than 500-page report by the Homeland Security Department's inspector general that included the same statement, but with the speaker's name blacked out. The border protection agency is part of Homeland Security. The revelations raised alarm in news organizations and prompted a demand for a full explanation.

This is the equivalent of 'elites' discovering looters for the first time because thugs targeted Louis Vuitton instead of 'just Walgreens' type stores. (Homeland thugs have been going after conservatives unfairly for years - the press finally notices something's wrong when Homeland goes after them...)

Maybe the press will wake up...

[South Dakota]

We know the Obama administration was illegally going after the journalists who wrote articles critical of him

I’m betting this was the time he was talking about

[Fido969]

The people who are supposed to be guarding the border are going after people reporting on it, rather than actually protecting the border.

[Ouderkirk]

Ali Watkins is not a journalist...she is a c0c%sucking whore.

This is an attempt to get the stink off of her.