Posted on 11/19/2018 7:08:56 AM PST by conservative98
CNN) The White House has issued a new warning to CNN's Jim Acosta, saying his press pass could be revoked again at the end of the month.
In response, CNN is asking the U.S. District Court for another emergency hearing.
"The White House is continuing to violate the First and 5th Amendments of the Constitution," the network said in a statement Sunday. "These actions threaten all journalists and news organizations. Jim Acosta and CNN will continue to report the news about the White House and the President."
Last Friday CNN won a temporary restraining order, forcing the White House to restore Acosta's press access to the White House for 14 days. Judge Timothy J. Kelly ruled on Fifth Amendment grounds, saying Acosta's right to due process had been violated. He did not rule on CNN's argument about First Amendment violations.
Later that same day, the White House sent Acosta a formal letter outlining a "preliminary decision" to suspend his pass again once the restraining order expires. The letter cited his conduct at President Trump's November 7 press conference.
The letter was signed by two of the defendants in the suit, press secretary Sarah Sanders and deputy chief of staff for communications Bill Shine.
The letter signaled that the Trump administration wants to continue fighting Acosta, despite the round one setback in court, rather than seeking an out-of-court settlement.
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Looks like the White House is now going through “Do Process”.
Remember when Trump said he was going to open up the libel laws and sue CNN? Instead CNN sued him and won.
I’m losing my patience with his ho-hum attitude, he’s the president, he can do a lot more than complain on Twitter.
Looks like the White House is now going through “Due Process”.
“”Has CNN NO other reporters they could assign to cover the WH? This makes no sense.””
They have other reporters from CNN in the room at the same time as Acosta - all trouble - April Ryan for one! According to this link, CNN has 50 “hard pass holders”.....They must rotate them from CNN as they can’t all be there at once.
Then he should not be a judge.
I LOVE how President Trump keeps poking CNN, LOL! Keep exposing them for the POS TRAITORS that they are, Kind Sir!
MAGA! :)
“Why does this topic keep getting put in Breaking News?”
Probably for the same reason horseface Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez making another idiotic statement is “Breaking New.” Entertainment I guess. CNN is in business to make the president look bad and the Cortez fixtation reminds people what kind of idiots democrats elect to public office.
Obnoxious, ill mannered little Jimmy Acosta and the Communist News Network can't handle the reality that President Trump is acting like an adult and isn't going to put up with little Jimmy's temper tantrums and throwing his verbal feces all overy the White House press room any longer.
Too bad, so sad; go sit in the corner little Jimmy and stay there indefinitely, until you learn to act like a respectful adult and behave. Which in obnoxious little Jimmy''s case will be never.
I’m going with a Presstitute Pass would be more of a Security Situation. As in being hostile towards President Trump .
NOT Violating the 1st.
The 1st says Congress shall not ... The 1st says nothing about President shall not. President Trump is not saying or telling acostatoomuch that he cannot still “report” but that he just can’t be in the presstitue briefing room.
NOT Violating the 5th in any way/shape ir form that I can see.
Unfortunately yes.
I would of appealed arguing a White House Press pass is not “property” so there is no legal standing for either this, or the 1970s. decisions under the 5th Amendment. As someone earlier pointed out, this is akin to arguing my driver’s license is my property because I have had it for 38 years.
Whole thing is a clown show
I will concede the point of no-existing rules and that “the Acoster” hasn’t necessarily violated them.
So, create a set of rules and then vigorously enforce them. Apply them to all uniformly.
Obviously, you can’t apply them retroactively without appearing heavy-handed. (you could but there is no upside PR wise)
The key is to ignore Acosta, and his obnoxious behavior will escalate until he crosses over that line in an even more egregious fashion. If I were a betting man, I would say that Acosta will eventually charge the podium in a fit of rage from not being called upon. He ego is even larger than Trump’s.
Excuse me, but where was CNN's outrage when Barack Obama unleashed the US Justice system on a Fox reporter?
REMEMBER THIS?---At his recent comeback appearance, Obama lacerated Pres Trump, saying: " I complained plenty about Fox News,
but you never heard me call them enemies of the people.” (Source —--comeback rally at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).
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?
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Why can’t I get a pass?
“Acosta being dragged out kicking and screaming would be some truly dynamite entertainment.”
And make sure the bouncers are petite females.
Jimmy’s White House press pass was reinstated just until the case is heard. It may be revoked again if the court rules that way.
My sil had her license revoked after being charged with dwi. She beat the charge however she still had to redo everything.
DOJ is fighting ATT’s acquisition of CNN.
Comcast owns NBC, MSNBC.
No cable/infrastructure MSM verticals.
Speak up subscribing enablers!
Enough of this crap of government by lawyer. He’s the president and he runs the White House.
Good, time to ratchet up the war on the anti-American media and this is a good place to start.
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