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Lazenby: Spying On Reporters

It was revealed this week that the U.S. Justice Department (USDOJ) obtained more than two months of telephone records including outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters from Associated Press at offices in New York, Washington, D.C. and Hartford, Connecticut. The AP said the seizure also included records of…

It was revealed this week that the U.S. Justice Department (USDOJ) obtained more than two months of telephone records including outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters from Associated Press at offices in New York, Washington, D.C. and Hartford, Connecticut. The AP said the seizure also included records of the primary number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery. It was not immediately clear whether the records also included incoming calls or the duration of the calls.

The breadth of this seizure of records, which involved more than 20 AP phone lines that more than 100 journalists and editors use to report on government issues in the targeted offices, including general switchboard lines and an office-weid shared fax number, is staggering. In addition raising serious First and Fourth Amendment questions about the freedom of the press and unreasonable searches and seizures, it compromises the confidentiality of sources who report on government issues.

The Justice Department has refused to say why the records were sought, but it is known through public testimony by C.I.A. Director John Brennan that the U.S. attorney in Washington is conducting a criminal investigation into who may have provided information contained in a May 7, 2012, AP story about a foiled terror plot. The story in question disclosed details of a C.I.A.  operation in Yemen that stopped an al-Qaida plot to detonate a bomb on an airplane bound for the U.S. in the spring of 2012. Brennan has called the release of information to the media about the foiled plot an “unauthorized and dangerous disclosure of classified information,” even though the AP delayed the release of the story at the request of the Obama administration for national security reasons.

Based on the time period of the records involved in this seizure – April and May, 2012 – and the AP offices targeted, he administration is presumably looking for the source of that leak. According to a report in the New York Times, among those whose phone numbers were obtained were five reporters and an editor who were involved in the May 7, 2012, story.

There can be no denying that the DOJ has overreached, and it has done so in a way that jeopardizes constitutional rights in a very frightening way.

“There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters,” AP president and chief executive officer Gary Pruitt wrote in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder. “These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to AP’s newsgathering operations and disclose information about AP’s activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know.”

Government prosecutors requesting media phone records is nothing new, but media organizations are usually notified in advance of such a request, and then negotiations follow regarding the terms of a voluntary release of those records. In this case, however, the Associated Press was notified of the record seizure only after the fact, via a letter from Ronald Machen, the U.S. attorney in Washington. There was a subpoena issued to obtain the records, but it was not immediately clear whether a judge or a grand jury had signed off on the subpoena.

According to the DOJ’s own regulations, a subpoena for phone records may only be sought after “all reasonable attempts should be made to obtain (the same) information from alternative sources.” Additionally, a subpoena to the media must be “as narrowly drawn as possible” and “should be directed at relevant information regarding a limited subject matter and should cover a reasonably limited time period,” according to the DOJ’s rules. The reason for these restrictions is to prevent an impingement on the freedom of the press, which, while not absolute, is outlined in the First Amendment to the Constitution. The records of 20 phone lines used by at least 100 reporters in three separate field offices over a two month period is far from “narrow.”

But in in obtaining these particular records, the DOJ letter to the AP cited an exemption to its own rules that holds that prior notification can be waived if such notice, in the exemption’s wording, might “pose a substantial threat to the integrity of the investigation.” This exception is particularly intimidating to those reporters and sources who are attempting to investigate and reveal potential wrongdoing by government officials and agencies.

The White House has denied having any prior knowledge of the subpoena of press records in this particular instance, but the Obama administration has brought more cases against people suspected of providing classified information to the media than were brought under all previous presidents combined. Six current and former government officials have been indicted in leak-related cases under the current administration to date. Republicans, however, accused the administration of deliberately leaking classified information last year, supposedly jeopardizing national security in an effort to make Obama look tough in an election year. In fact, a resolution calling for special counsel to be appointed to investigate such leaks was sponsored by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), and co-sponsored by 29 republican senators last year. The Obama administration soundly rejected the Republicans’ charge, but its policy of aggressively pursuing possible leaks to the media suggests it wanted to tamp down that criticism. Thus, constitutional rights are once again becoming a political football to be hurled at one’s opponent and back, rather than the guarantee of a free society that they were meant to be.

Even more troubling than the administration’s policy, though, is the fact that according to at least one if its own internal reports, the DOJ hasn’t always followed government regulations about obtaining press records legally. According to a 2010 DOJ report entitled “A Review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Use of Exigent Letters and Other Informal Requests for Telephone Records,” the department determined that “In three media leak investigations… the FBI did not comply with the federal regulation and Department policy that requires Attorney General approval and balancing of First Amendment interests and the interests of law enforcement before issuing subpoenas for the production of reporters’ telephone toll billing records.”

When governments want to operate behind closed doors and reduce transparency and accountability, one of the first steps they take is intimidation of the press. Do we really want to be a society that spies on its own citizens, especially the particular citizens we rely upon to hold our government accountable – journalists and their sources? In this way, a free press is essential to a free society. Civil liberties, which have repeatedly been trampled upon in the name of “national security” by both political parties – especially in the wake of 9/11 – continues to fall by the wayside. What happened to the AP is yet another frightening example of government overreach by the security state.

UPDATE: According to Pete Williams of NBCNews, a DOJ official has said, “The decision to seek media toll records in this investigation was made by the Deputy Attorney General.” NBC News is also reporting that AG Holder recused himself from the investigation into disclosure of classified information that led to the seizure of AP phone records, according to a DOJ official.

amy lazenby

Amy Lazenby is a wife, mother of three and small business owner with her husband who splits her time between South Carolina and Georgia. She writes with a liberal world view on most issues, but enjoys exploring where the liberal and libertarian political axes intersect. Follow her on Twitter @Mrs_Laz.

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64 comments

Frank Pytel May 14, 2013 at 2:55 pm

Who gives a crap. When I say the gubmint is spying on me I’m a conspiracy theorist, but if the AP (Read: Advanced Progressives) say the same thing their victims.
Frack’eminthebooty Fruity Mcpooty

Have a Great Day!! :) There won’t be many left with the Demlicans and Republicrats in charge.

Frank Pytel

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A Friend May 14, 2013 at 3:00 pm

Uh, because they might be pulling the phone records of Fox News, too…

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Gaynell Venable May 14, 2013 at 3:56 pm

What is wrong with you people? Don’t you know that when I call FOX News from home with my insider tips that I NEVER use my REAL NAME! Do I look STUPID to you?

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Frank Pytel May 15, 2013 at 4:25 am

I personally don’t care which one of the MSM is hit. Frackem all. Like they say “I can’t get involved. I have to remain objective to the story”

Have a Great Day!! :) There won’t be many left with the Demlicans and Republicrats in charge.

Frank Pytel

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A Friend May 15, 2013 at 9:27 am

So you don’t get that it’s not just the MSM, but also blogs like this that they snoop. You don’t get that reporters and bloggers hold the government – that you don’t like and always rail against – accountable for the actions that you don’t like and always rail against.

Okay, you’ve shown your ignorance. Understood.

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Frank Pytel May 15, 2013 at 12:54 pm

There’s no ignorance to it friend. If you want to have free speech then EVERYONE should have free speech. If you want that there should be no unlawful entry, search and seizure then that should be the law of the land. Everyday (admittedly many times justifiably from a safety [read libtards] point of view) the cops bust down somebody’s door without warrants because they say there ‘might’ be a crime in progress or ‘I felt like’ and that’s all that needs to be said. Where are the reporters at then. Why aren’t they publishing the name of the cops that beat people down or scare some old woman to death because their looking for someone that moved 10 years ago. Where are the media, daily, when some 1000 children are murdered each day in this country, while they are in their mothers wombs. You fucking little libtard republicrats and demlicans make me puke. Not WANT to. You do. Daily. Stupid fucking gutless cunts the lot of you.
You don’t get it friend. I’m all for the fire in the theater bs, but I don’t see the reporters standing up when the gubmint is trampling on the rights of its citizens. They don’t give a flying crapola. So why the hell should blubber when someone listens on there conversations. Where

Have a Great Day!! :) There won’t be many left with the Demlicans and Republicrats in charge.

Frank Pytel

Shadow of EHolder May 14, 2013 at 3:13 pm

Yes, Mr. Pytel, we know all about you.

Our files show that you are a direct descendent of one Jocasta Romaine Pytel (1856 – 1919) who was an enterprising harlot with pioneer gumption and a trick pelvis. She actually ran the best little whorehouse on the Bighorn.

Aside from this, not much else about your life is noteworthy, except perhaps for the fact that she was General Custer’s last one-night stand. We have the receipt!

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Smirks May 14, 2013 at 4:15 pm

Trick pelvis? Do I even want to know?

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Tequila Mockingbird May 14, 2013 at 4:53 pm

Mr. Smirks, yes, you would really like to know. Jocasta was my great-great-grandmother. I have inherited her trick pelvis and, well, just use your imagination!

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Buz Martin May 14, 2013 at 6:57 pm

Good to see that the comedic potential of Disqus is re-enlivening blog comments, after a lull while everyone got acclimated. I would join in more, but I’m still mostly boycotting Will for not admitting that I’m his real Daddy. I should be back here more often soon, though. Since I see he is not really going to do the book and make a fortune on it, I’m thinking of not even claiming HIM. So the partial one-man boycott is becoming more meaningless that it was already.

9" May 14, 2013 at 9:51 pm

Does he like you to call him,’Daddy’ while you’re fucking him?
Sorry,but this IS SC.

Frank Pytel May 15, 2013 at 4:25 am

NNNNiiiiicccceeee

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Buz Martin May 14, 2013 at 6:51 pm

I sometimes find you annoying, but I pretty much always agree with you. Your basic premise is valid to an alarming degree.

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Frank Pytel May 15, 2013 at 4:27 am

Thanks! :)

Have a Great Day!! :) There won’t be many left with the Demlicans and Republicrats in charge.

Frank Pytel

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A Friend May 14, 2013 at 7:01 pm

You know there’s a difference between you just saying the gubmint is spying on you and having it admit on paper (after the fact) that it did it, right?

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Frank Pytel May 14, 2013 at 2:55 pm

Who gives a crap. When I say the gubmint is spying on me I’m a conspiracy theorist, but if the AP (Read: Advanced Progressives) say the same thing their victims.
Frack’eminthebooty Fruity Mcpooty

Have a Great Day!! :) There won’t be many left with the Demlicans and Republicrats in charge.

Frank Pytel

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A Friend May 14, 2013 at 3:00 pm

Uh, because they might be pulling the phone records of Fox News, too…

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Gaynell Venable May 14, 2013 at 3:56 pm

What is wrong with you people? Don’t you know that when I call FOX News from home with my insider tips that I NEVER use my REAL NAME! Do I look STUPID to you?

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Frank Pytel May 15, 2013 at 4:25 am

I personally don’t care which one of the MSM is hit. Frackem all. Like they say “I can’t get involved. I have to remain objective to the story”

Have a Great Day!! :) There won’t be many left with the Demlicans and Republicrats in charge.

Frank Pytel

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A Friend May 15, 2013 at 9:27 am

So you don’t get that it’s not just the MSM, but also blogs like this that they snoop. You don’t get that reporters and bloggers hold the government – that you don’t like and always rail against – accountable for the actions that you don’t like and always rail against.

Okay, you’ve shown your ignorance. Understood.

Reply
Frank Pytel May 15, 2013 at 12:54 pm

There’s no ignorance to it friend. If you want to have free speech then EVERYONE should have free speech. If you want that there should be no unlawful entry, search and seizure then that should be the law of the land. Everyday (admittedly many times justifiably from a safety [read libtards] point of view) the cops bust down somebody’s door without warrants because they say there ‘might’ be a crime in progress or ‘I felt like’ and that’s all that needs to be said. Where are the reporters at then. Why aren’t they publishing the name of the cops that beat people down or scare some old woman to death because their looking for someone that moved 10 years ago. Where are the media, daily, when some 1000 children are murdered each day in this country, while they are in their mothers wombs. You fucking little libtard republicrats and demlicans make me puke. Not WANT to. You do. Daily. Stupid fucking gutless cunts the lot of you.

You don’t get it friend. I’m all for the fire in the theater bs, but I don’t see the reporters standing up when the gubmint is trampling on the rights of its citizens. They don’t give a flying crapola. So why the hell should blubber when someone listens on there conversations.

Have a Great Day!! :) There won’t be many left with the Demlicans and Republicrats in charge.

Frank Pytel

Shadow of EHolder May 14, 2013 at 3:13 pm

Yes, Mr. Pytel, we know all about you.

Our files show that you are a direct descendent of one Jocasta Romaine Pytel (1856 – 1919) who was an enterprising harlot with pioneer gumption and a trick pelvis. She actually ran the best little whorehouse on the Bighorn.

Aside from this, not much else about your life is noteworthy, except perhaps for the fact that she was General Custer’s last one-night stand. We have the receipt!

Reply
Smirks May 14, 2013 at 4:15 pm

Trick pelvis? Do I even want to know?

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Tequila Mockingbird May 14, 2013 at 4:53 pm

Mr. Smirks, yes, you would really like to know. Jocasta was my great-great-grandmother. I have inherited her trick pelvis and, well, just use your imagination!

Reply
Boz Martin May 14, 2013 at 6:57 pm

Good to see that the comedic potential of Disqus is re-enlivening blog comments, after a lull while everyone got acclimated. I would join in more, but I’m still mostly boycotting Will for not admitting that I’m his real Daddy. I should be back here more often soon, though. Since I see he is not really going to do the book and make a fortune on it, I’m thinking of not even claiming HIM. So the partial one-man boycott is becoming more meaningless that it was already.

9" May 14, 2013 at 9:51 pm

Does he like you to call him,’Daddy’ while you’re fucking him?
Sorry,but this IS SC.

Frank Pytel May 15, 2013 at 4:25 am

NNNNiiiiicccceeee

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Boz Martin May 14, 2013 at 6:51 pm

I sometimes find you annoying, but I pretty much always agree with you. Your basic premise is valid to an alarming degree.

Reply
Frank Pytel May 15, 2013 at 4:27 am

Thanks! :)

Have a Great Day!! :) There won’t be many left with the Demlicans and Republicrats in charge.

Frank Pytel

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A Friend May 14, 2013 at 7:01 pm

You know there’s a difference between you just saying the gubmint is spying on you and having it admit on paper (after the fact) that it did it, right?

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jimlewisowb May 14, 2013 at 3:32 pm

Have to agree with Frank Pytel on this one

A few years back when I first joined the First Hebrew Pentecostal AME Circular Congregational Church of the South Texas Free Will Baptist Union and Snakehandlers, LLC I looked forward to taking communion twice a day every day of the week

When I would call back home and tell the folks I was talking to God they would yell in the phone: Praise the Lord, Jimmy is a Praying to the Lord

One Sunday I decided to call home right after communion. On that particular day the communion Peyote was a little stronger than usual and in no time me and the Lord had hooked up but good

I quickly stumbled over the Preacher and the First Deacon’s wife who were on the floor playing with the Preacher’s snake and dialed up my folks. When I told the folks that God was talking to me I could hear them yell: Damn the boy has gone schizoid

So Frank good luck in your conspiracy vs. victim efforts and remember if you talk to God tomorrow it’s prayer, but if God talks to you it’s schizophrenia

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jimlewisowb May 14, 2013 at 3:32 pm

Have to agree with Frank Pytel on this one

A few years back when I first joined the First Hebrew Pentecostal AME Circular Congregational Church of the South Texas Free Will Baptist Union and Snakehandlers, LLC I looked forward to taking communion twice a day every day of the week

When I would call back home and tell the folks I was talking to God they would yell in the phone: Praise the Lord, Jimmy is a Praying to the Lord

One Sunday I decided to call home right after communion. On that particular day the communion Peyote was a little stronger than usual and in no time me and the Lord had hooked up but good

I quickly stumbled over the Preacher and the First Deacon’s wife who were on the floor playing with the Preacher’s snake and dialed up my folks. When I told the folks that God was talking to me I could hear them yell: Damn the boy has gone schizoid

So Frank good luck in your conspiracy vs. victim efforts and remember if you talk to God tomorrow it’s prayer, but if God talks to you it’s schizophrenia

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GrandTango May 14, 2013 at 3:40 pm

Hey Lizenby: I hear Gosnell is appalled by baby killing, too….You leftwingers give me a Belly-laugh…your attempts at incredulity is hilarious…

Lizenby Attacking the DOJ..as if Obama – THE REVENGE PRESIDENT- is oblivious to what was going on…..LMAO…

Liberalism is synonymous w/ Corruption…You vote multiple times for Obama and Bill Clinton secured FBI files to attack his enemies…nothing new, here…

PS: I hear Hitler feigned a hand-wringing session over news that Jewish people were being singled out…You Liberals ARE amazing….

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A Friend May 14, 2013 at 3:52 pm

And Big T goes on an off-topic rant about abortion and Hitler in 3,2,… oh, never mind, he beat me to it.

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GrandTango May 14, 2013 at 6:24 pm

Not trying to nit-pick, but you might want to give literacy a try…

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EJB May 14, 2013 at 3:44 pm

If its regular people being pushed around by the government they think its kind of bad but the government has to “protect” us so they should get a little leeway. When the government tries to take away our guns that’s not an infringement of our Constitutional rights, its being done for our “protection” but man, let the government take some phone records from the AP and its tyranny like we have never seen before. Problem is its all tyranny. Just because it’s happening to a child molester doesn’t make it any less tyranny. You dolts in the media have been cow towing to these fools all this time and look, you still get screwed by them. You lost your objectivity and now have no credibility, you’re all National Enquirer reporters. The Constitution needs you now more than ever yet you let them tear it up, now you want the Constitution to protect you, how? Even the Supreme Court is tainted. You media types have a lot of catching up to do, get started.

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Sure May 14, 2013 at 3:50 pm

I think she just did.

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EJB May 14, 2013 at 3:44 pm

If its regular people being pushed around by the government they think its kind of bad but the government has to “protect” us so they should get a little leeway. When the government tries to take away our guns that’s not an infringement of our Constitutional rights, its being done for our “protection” but man, let the government take some phone records from the AP and its tyranny like we have never seen before. Problem is its all tyranny. Just because it’s happening to a child molester doesn’t make it any less tyranny. You dolts in the media have been cow towing to these fools all this time and look, you still get screwed by them. You lost your objectivity and now have no credibility, you’re all National Enquirer reporters. The Constitution needs you now more than ever yet you let them tear it up, now you want the Constitution to protect you, how? Even the Supreme Court is tainted. You media types have a lot of catching up to do, get started.

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Sure May 14, 2013 at 3:50 pm

I think she just did.

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Smirks May 14, 2013 at 3:52 pm

But if we don’t let government watch and record everything we do, we won’t be safe from the terrorists!

What’s that? Government is terrorizing us more than the terrorists? Gee, that sounds like something a terrorist would say! Hold still while the unmanned drone “takes your picture!”

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A Friend May 14, 2013 at 3:56 pm

Exactly. Tell that to Frank “Have a Great Day!! :) There won’t be many left with the Demlicans and Republicrats in charge.” Pytel. He doesn’t seem to understand the prophesy of his own catch phrase…

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shifty henry May 14, 2013 at 4:00 pm

Yeah, right……

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Smirks May 14, 2013 at 3:52 pm

But if we don’t let government watch and record everything we do, we won’t be safe from the terrorists!

What’s that? Government is terrorizing us more than the terrorists? Gee, that sounds like something a terrorist would say! Hold still while the unmanned drone “takes your picture!”

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A Friend May 14, 2013 at 3:56 pm

Exactly. Tell that to Frank “Have a Great Day!! :) There won’t be many left with the Demlicans and Republicrats in charge.” Pytel. He doesn’t seem to understand the prophesy of his own catch phrase…

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shifty henry May 14, 2013 at 4:00 pm

Yeah, right……

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Philip Branton May 14, 2013 at 4:22 pm

WOW….a fine example of how FIts just fits right in with the “reporter” crowd..! The least Wil could do would be to have all his “readers” actually learn something from the “Art of War”..!! If you do not think that a fine network admin worker at AT&T is not “reviewing” certain calls then you might as well go back and crawl underneath a rock..!! What a time wasting fiasco this AP farce is..!!

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Sure May 14, 2013 at 5:00 pm

Your bizarre comments on this site are actually more of a time waster than this article. Also, chill with the exclamation points.

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Philip Branton May 14, 2013 at 4:22 pm

WOW….a fine example of how FIts just fits right in with the “reporter” crowd..! The least Wil could do would be to have all his “readers” actually learn something from the “Art of War”..!! If you do not think that a fine network admin worker at AT&T is not “reviewing” certain calls then you might as well go back and crawl underneath a rock..!! What a time wasting fiasco this AP farce is..!!

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Sure May 14, 2013 at 5:00 pm

Your bizarre comments on this site are actually more of a time waster than this article. Also, chill with the exclamation points.

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GrandTango May 14, 2013 at 4:30 pm

I’m so impressed by your concern. But you can stop wringing your hands, in angst, Lizenby. And rest assured, Obama is all over this. Our esteemed president wil get to the bottom of this horrible breach…and the responsible party will answer…

Of course Obama will not tell you little nervous nellies, feigning so much worry about our democracy, those accountable will receive bonuses, with lifetime pensions at 4 times their already exorbitant government pay…

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Thomas May 14, 2013 at 9:58 pm

The press has abused the very freedoms in the Bill of Rights. We are talking publicly traded corporations, vast conglomerates owning a few news publishing companies. We are talking media outlets that own newspapers in major cities, magazines publishing nationally, all publicly traded corporations or privately held. They have willfully spiked stories, spiked coverage of nationally significant trials, purposely paint large groups of people as racist on the evidence of one sign at a protest involving upwards to 200,000 Americans. They have refused to investigate allegations based on solid evidence, refuse to hold some in DC accountable either at press conferences. They have run false stories on Americans, sitting Governors, sitting Congress members, purposely denigrate murdered Federal Judges, refuse to cover objectively any and all stories involving our military and their operations. All this, in the last four years.

And now members in the Obama Administration scooped up confidential, protected information on a group of reporters, and this riles some to calls of illegality? Lazenby and the Establishment Media have no credibilty, hide behind hard fought freedoms and protections only for political convenience. There is no objectivity in journalism, truth in coverage. Often, the media is deployed to favor an administration, political party, tried and failed ideologies, and human secular pagan idolatry. This revelation is but one story of corruption they chose to cover, but remain silent on other damaging corruptions and manipulations.

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GrandTango May 15, 2013 at 6:06 am

You are like the ogre who blames a woman for getting raped. Your thought-patterns are small-minded and antique…not to mention saddening….

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Thomas May 15, 2013 at 9:30 am

I posted under your post to show solidarity.

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Brigid May 15, 2013 at 12:19 pm

I am guessing GT was being sarcastic in reference to the military rape culture article from last week. And now this week the real culprit is the ‘security culture,’ so off-base it is laughable. Except this isn’t a joke, it is just being dishonest. Lazy, incurious, and dishonest.

lowcorider May 14, 2013 at 5:31 pm

First you demand they investigate, then you condemn the investigation. Fuck it.

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Lowcorider May 14, 2013 at 5:31 pm

First you demand they investigate, then you condemn the investigation. Fuck it.

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GrandTango May 14, 2013 at 7:12 pm

Don’t worry, I have so much confidence in the Administration’s integrity.

I’m SURE the Esteemed Obama is working around the clock, with those Stalwarts Reid and Pelosi, to get to the bottom of this hideous episode.

Expect our leaders to get us some Resolution, and Answers, fast.

And Lizenby, I thank you for posting this. You’re such a good American. I’m Sure you are putting your strong desire for justice, front and center :)… Kudos…

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GrandTango May 14, 2013 at 9:11 pm

OMG, Amy..E-Gad…are you sitting down???…This one gave me a case of the Vapors, so get a hold of yourself, girlfriend..Obama…errrr…I mean the IRS underlings trying to make our regal president looks bad, targeted the Rev. Billy Graham…

I know, I know, we believe in Separation of Church and State, it’s one of our holy leftwing Sacraments…How could Obama…errr…the IRS underlings have been so hateful…

We MUST get to the bottom of this, and figure out why the DOJ would make our wonderful, honest, president looks so Corrupt and filthy…

I know You want an answer from these bad people, just like I do…I just hope the cheating did not change the outcome of an election…don’t you???…that would be horrible…

But we do have terrible unemployment, DC incompetence galore, declining incomes and Astronomical Gas prices, all under Obama…I often wondered (like I’m sure a smart, educated person like you would)..,How Stupid do Americans have to be, to put such a Failed president (as much as we ALL love him) back in office…
Are you beginning to think that maybe he CHEATED himself in lik w/ e Intimidation…remember the New Black Panthers got away w/ it in 2008…Why not double Down…I so hope our guy is not THAT corrupt, but they are making him looks so bad…Not fair..is it???
I’m Scared our president will be forever soiled over his…errr, I mean the IRS’s cheating…Aren’t you???

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BrigidBernadette May 15, 2013 at 8:04 am

We already know all this, I know it is new information to you low-information liberals, since HuffPo doesn’t cover the Obama administration critically, which makes them part of the overall problem with the media, but we read the Jonathan Carl piece days ago. You sidestep the blame that lies with the corrupt administration, instead blaming the ‘security state.’ lol You buy that tissue of horse shit that Holder did it for national security. Did it ever occur to you he is lying, that he is simply corrupt and could have handled this with the cooperation of the AP? Dumb, dumb, dumb. We need a lecture about the virtues of the free press, of transparency, of honesty in government? REALLY? This is the Chicago way Amy–laws, ethics, rules don’t apply to them. They do what they do to boost Obama, it is plain and simple. From the first race he ran in Chicago, he’s had his hands dirty. Catch up.

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Brigid May 15, 2013 at 8:04 am

We already know all this, I know it is new information to you low-information liberals, since HuffPo doesn’t cover the Obama administration critically, which makes them part of the overall problem with the media, but we read the Jonathan Carl piece days ago. You sidestep the blame that lies with the corrupt administration, instead blaming the ‘security state.’ lol You buy that tissue of horse shit that Holder did it for national security. Did it ever occur to you he is lying, that he is simply corrupt and could have handled this with the cooperation of the AP? Dumb, dumb, dumb. We need a lecture about the virtues of the free press, of transparency, of honesty in government? REALLY? This is the Chicago way Amy–laws, ethics, rules don’t apply to them. They do what they do to boost Obama, it is plain and simple. From the first race he ran in Chicago, he’s had his hands dirty. Catch up.

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