Seizing phone records with a warrant popped out by the Holder Injustice Department...no judge signed off on it......his got the ire up of the Associated Press.
He used the term 'unconstitutional.'
What??? The press doing it's job?
Has the worm finally turned?
1. "WASHINGTON The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the governments secret seizure of two months of reporters phone records unconstitutional ...
2. Gary Pruitt, in his first television interviews since it was revealed the Justice Department subpoenaed phone records of AP reporters and editors, said the move already has had a chilling effect on journalism.
3. Pruitt told CBS Face the Nation that the government has no business monitoring the APs newsgathering activities.
4. And if they restrict that apparatus ... the people of the United States will only know what the government wants them to know and thats not what the framers of the Constitution had in mind....
5..... not ruled out legal action against the government. He said the Justice Departments investigation is out of control.....
6. Theyve been secretive, theyve been overbroad and abusive so much so that taken together, they are unconstitutional....
7. White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said the president ....was not involved in the decision to seek AP phone records.
8. ....Pruitt pointed to a May 7, 2012, story that disclosed details of a successful CIA operation in Yemen to stop an airliner bomb plot around the one-year anniversary of the May 2, 2011, killing of Osama bin Laden. The AP delayed publication of that story at the request of government officials who said it would jeopardize national security.
We respected that, we acted responsibly, we held the story, Pruitt said.
Pruitt said that only after officials from two government entities said the threat had passed did the AP publish the story.
9. ....the story as important because White House and Department of Homeland Security officials were saying publicly there was no credible evidence of a terrorist threat to the U.S. around the one-year anniversary of bin Ladens death.
So that was misleading to the American public. We felt the American public needed to know this story, Pruitt said.
10. Were not going to be intimidated by the abusive tactics of the Justice Department, he said."
AP CEO calls government seizure of phone records unconstitutional, says chill already felt - The Washington Post
So....the government planned to lie to the public....you know, like the Fort Hood murders were the result of 'workplace violence'....and the AP held up the story because the White House said a double agent was involved.
But then, the White House wanted to be the one to release the story, as in a victory lap.....and the AP said 'we waited long enough.'
So the White House, through Holder, had a hissy fit and spied on the reporters!
And of course, Obama didn't know......well...why didn't he know??
Can't wait for the board's Obama-groupies to spin this one!
He used the term 'unconstitutional.'
What??? The press doing it's job?
Has the worm finally turned?
1. "WASHINGTON The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the governments secret seizure of two months of reporters phone records unconstitutional ...
2. Gary Pruitt, in his first television interviews since it was revealed the Justice Department subpoenaed phone records of AP reporters and editors, said the move already has had a chilling effect on journalism.
3. Pruitt told CBS Face the Nation that the government has no business monitoring the APs newsgathering activities.
4. And if they restrict that apparatus ... the people of the United States will only know what the government wants them to know and thats not what the framers of the Constitution had in mind....
5..... not ruled out legal action against the government. He said the Justice Departments investigation is out of control.....
6. Theyve been secretive, theyve been overbroad and abusive so much so that taken together, they are unconstitutional....
7. White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said the president ....was not involved in the decision to seek AP phone records.
8. ....Pruitt pointed to a May 7, 2012, story that disclosed details of a successful CIA operation in Yemen to stop an airliner bomb plot around the one-year anniversary of the May 2, 2011, killing of Osama bin Laden. The AP delayed publication of that story at the request of government officials who said it would jeopardize national security.
We respected that, we acted responsibly, we held the story, Pruitt said.
Pruitt said that only after officials from two government entities said the threat had passed did the AP publish the story.
9. ....the story as important because White House and Department of Homeland Security officials were saying publicly there was no credible evidence of a terrorist threat to the U.S. around the one-year anniversary of bin Ladens death.
So that was misleading to the American public. We felt the American public needed to know this story, Pruitt said.
10. Were not going to be intimidated by the abusive tactics of the Justice Department, he said."
AP CEO calls government seizure of phone records unconstitutional, says chill already felt - The Washington Post
So....the government planned to lie to the public....you know, like the Fort Hood murders were the result of 'workplace violence'....and the AP held up the story because the White House said a double agent was involved.
But then, the White House wanted to be the one to release the story, as in a victory lap.....and the AP said 'we waited long enough.'
So the White House, through Holder, had a hissy fit and spied on the reporters!
And of course, Obama didn't know......well...why didn't he know??
Can't wait for the board's Obama-groupies to spin this one!
