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CIA Argues The Public Can’t See Classified Information It Has Already Given To Favored Reporters
Daily Caller ^ | 02/15/2018 | Will Racke

Posted on 02/15/2018 10:46:04 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Intelligence officials can selectively release classified information to trusted journalists while withholding the same information from other citizens who request it through open records laws, CIA lawyers argued Wednesday. ....The judge in the case appeared to find Johnson’ argument compelling. In a court order last month, Chief Judge Colleen McMahon of the Southern District of New York said FOIA laws do not authorize limited disclosure, to favored journalists or otherwise. “In this case, CIA voluntarily disclosed to outsiders information that it had a perfect right to keep private,” she wrote. “There is absolutely no statutory provision that authorizes limited disclosure of otherwise classified information to anyone, including ‘trusted reporters,’ for any purpose, including the protection of CIA sources and methods that might otherwise be outed.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 201802; cia; classified; coup; deepstate; filter; johnson; media; mediafilter; mediaprivilege; msm; operationmockingbird; presstitutes; privilege; spying
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Mind control by the Clowns. The arrogant, privileged deep state wants their cake and eat too. Who do they think reporters are if not the public? I had no idea selective release to reporters could be considered an acceptable ‘practice.’


21 posted on 02/16/2018 2:45:46 AM PST by iontheball (lLL)
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To: veracious

Deep darkness. Covert insider special godlike qualities they have. Beyond words
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You can bet this MK-ULTRA sh_t is still goes on. Q points to “troubled minds” of the school shooters.

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hearings/95mkultra.pdf


22 posted on 02/16/2018 2:54:38 AM PST by iontheball (lLL)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Chris Cuomo is a CHILD and thinks like a child.


23 posted on 02/16/2018 3:13:20 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: JudgemAll

So basically the CIA is trusting and sponsoring media communists over people...


So basically the CIA is the media. /fixed


24 posted on 02/16/2018 3:19:23 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: goldstategop

The classification remains until removed by the appropriate official.


25 posted on 02/16/2018 3:35:38 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Free Republic has been reduced to primarily a gathering place for the inane, banal, and obtuse.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Obammy sure has f-ed up our entire federal gub mint.


26 posted on 02/16/2018 3:50:10 AM PST by Joe Boucher (President Trump makes obammy look like the punk he is.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

I paid for the damn things.


27 posted on 02/16/2018 3:58:58 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Hey, Rocky--Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!)
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To: LouisianaJoanof Arc

The enforcement by a judge hasn’t happened yet.


28 posted on 02/16/2018 4:12:43 AM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

L8r


29 posted on 02/16/2018 4:40:51 AM PST by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society. And if the news does not fit)
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To: DesertRhino

It is because the reporters are a key part in building propaganda. You don’t let the rubes in on what the narrative is really trying to sell.


30 posted on 02/16/2018 5:15:02 AM PST by redgolum
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

The judge should laugh loudly, then decide against the CIA.
Journalists are not special (except in terms of mental illness) in any way. They are civilians without clearance like the rest of us.


31 posted on 02/16/2018 5:44:16 AM PST by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

The practice, whether or not found to be allowed by law, makes possible mass political manipulation by the intelligence agencies via the media, acting on information the public is not able to independently judge for themselves.

It makes “the press” - which is not the media corporations but THE PEOPLES FREEDOM TO PUBLISH - neither free nor able to be dissected as to distinguishing fact from fiction.

The “media” becomes manipulated by the intelligence agencies and the people become manipulated by the media.


32 posted on 02/16/2018 6:49:15 AM PST by Wuli
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To: JudgemAll

Maybe the emails include coordination to get the right narrative out to the people...and the FBI doesnt want people to realize that.


33 posted on 02/16/2018 7:09:33 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: joma89; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

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This is the deep state in action, folks. Once they convince you that the rules do not apply to them, we have a banana republic and the rule of law is dead.
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Oh, We’ve known they don’t apply to them; it’s when it’s blatant\acknowledged ‘in your face’ the trouble REALLY begins.

Rule of Law skeleton is finally picked clean and the once fine, upstanding Citizens finally realize the law is only that which you get CAUGHT breaking.


34 posted on 02/16/2018 7:37:44 AM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

All animals are equal. But some are more equal than others. - Orwell


35 posted on 02/16/2018 7:52:17 AM PST by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: Joe Boucher
Obammy sure has f-ed up our entire federal gub mint.

And guess which side GWB has taken? Note also daddy Bush voted for Hillary.

36 posted on 02/16/2018 8:57:18 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

The Bush’s are full of crappola.
They are not nor ever have been conservatives.
Big gub mint get along, go along, we all be making money a holes.
Compassionate conservatism is a scam.


37 posted on 02/16/2018 1:11:23 PM PST by Joe Boucher (President Trump makes obammy look like the punk he is.)
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