Govt obtains wide AP phone records in probe

[Sherry]

Even Nixon didnt do that.

We now have officially the most corrupt administration in history. Congratulations, boys and girls.

Obama is going to have quite the legacy.

 

[The Rabbi]

More from the story:

The May 7, 2012, AP story that disclosed details of the CIA operation in Yemen to stop an airliner bomb plot occurred around the one-year anniversary of the May 2, 2011, killing of Osama bin Laden.

The plot was significant both because of its seriousness and also because the White House previously had told the public it had "no credible information that terrorist organizations, including al-Qaida, are plotting attacks in the U.S. to coincide with the (May 2) anniversary of bin Laden's death."

So this looks like we are starting to understand Benghazi. An administration wedded to the idea that al Qaeda and Islamic terrorism are not threats will do anything to keep the reality from becoming known.

Paging George Orwell.

Next question: When will the first calls for impeachment/resignation come from the media?

This is rich.
DOJ under Obama is in the wrong for investigating the leak of classified information.
DOJ under Bush was totally in the clear when they were doing the same thing routinely just because they could.

No, you cocksucking shithead. They didn't "investigate" a leak. They grabbed 2 months of confidential information possibly without a warrant. Did you miss the 4th Amendment in school?

 

[The Rabbi]

Even Nixon didnt do that.

We now have officially the most corrupt administration in history. Congratulations, boys and girls.

Obama is going to have quite the legacy.

First black president. Impeached and removed from office.

 

[The Rabbi]

Obama is the worst president since idi Amin.

 

[Polk]

More from the story:


So this looks like we are starting to understand Benghazi. An administration wedded to the idea that al Qaeda and Islamic terrorism are not threats will do anything to keep the reality from becoming known.

Paging George Orwell.

Next question: When will the first calls for impeachment/resignation come from the media?

This is rich.
DOJ under Obama is in the wrong for investigating the leak of classified information.
DOJ under Bush was totally in the clear when they were doing the same thing routinely just because they could.

No, you cocksucking shithead. They didn't "investigate" a leak. They grabbed 2 months of confidential information possibly without a warrant. Did you miss the 4th Amendment in school?

AP's own whiny story about it admits that's what it was about.

The government would not say why it sought the records. Officials have previously said in public testimony 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 disclosed details of a CIA operation in Yemen that stopped an al-Qaida plot in the spring of 2012 to detonate a bomb on an airplane bound for the United States.

In testimony in February, CIA Director John Brennan noted that the FBI had questioned him about whether he was AP's source, which he denied. He called the release of the information to the media about the terror plot an "unauthorized and dangerous disclosure of classified information."

Gov't obtains wide AP phone records in probe

 

[Ernie S.]

This is rich.
DOJ under Obama is in the wrong for investigating the leak of classified information.
DOJ under Bush was totally in the clear when they were doing the same thing routinely just because they could.

No, you cocksucking shithead. They didn't "investigate" a leak. They grabbed 2 months of confidential information possibly without a warrant. Did you miss the 4th Amendment in school?

AP's own whiny story about it admits that's what it was about.

The government would not say why it sought the records. Officials have previously said in public testimony 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 disclosed details of a CIA operation in Yemen that stopped an al-Qaida plot in the spring of 2012 to detonate a bomb on an airplane bound for the United States.

In testimony in February, CIA Director John Brennan noted that the FBI had questioned him about whether he was AP's source, which he denied. He called the release of the information to the media about the terror plot an "unauthorized and dangerous disclosure of classified information."

Gov't obtains wide AP phone records in probe

You'll also note that the government had said that there had been no terrorists threats during that time. Why did they say that if it wasn't true? How do you justify tapping phone of people other that the reporters involved in the story.
Sorry, but this "most transparent administration in history" has a lot of 'splainin' to do.

 

[RandallFlagg]

Here is the latest. The plot is starting to thicken.....


The Associated Press reported Monday that the Department of Justice had secretly seized two months worth of telephone records from reporters and editors working for the global news organization.

Needless to say, news that the DOJ had secretly obtained AP phone records has rocked the media. As it turns out, people really, really don’t like being spied on or having the feds snoop around their personal information.

This is going to take some explaining.

And it looks like it’ll take a lot more than a “low-level employee” to get U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder out of this tight spot.

See, as the Washington Examiner’s Phillip Klein notes, “it will be harder for President Obama to pin the DOJ’s action on lower level bureaucrats … because requests to subpoena news organization records require the approval of Attorney General Eric Holder.”

From the DOJ’s U.S. Attorneys’ Manual:

The Attorney General’s authorization is normally required before the issuance of any subpoena to a member of the news media or for the telephone toll records of a member of the news media. However, in those cases where the media member or his or her representative agrees to provide the material sought and that material has been published or broadcast, the United States Attorney or the responsible Assistant Attorney General may authorize issuance of the subpoena, thereafter submitting a report to the Office of Public Affairs detailing the circumstances surrounding the issuance of the subpoena….

The probe was secret, as Klein notes, therefore the second condition wasn’t met. This means that the DOJ needed Holder’s signature to go forward with obtaining the AP phone records.

The manual continues:

Department attorneys seeking the Attorney General’s authorization to issue a subpoena to a member of the news media, or for telephone toll records of a media member, must submit a written request summarizing the facts of the prosecution or investigation, explaining the essentiality of the information sought to the investigation or prosecution, describing attempts to obtain the voluntary cooperation of the news media through negotiation and explaining how the proposed subpoena will be fashioned as narrowly as possible to obtain the necessary information in a manner as minimally intrusive and burdensome as possible.
Obviously, this puts Holder and the entire DOJ in an interesting position.

“[E]ither attorneys’ ignored procedure in obtaining phone records without proper approval, or Holder directly approved an operation that involved obtaining journalists’ work and personal phone records,” Klein writes.

Perhaps we’ll learn more when Holder testifies before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday for an oversight hearing.



Someone's goose is starting to get very, VERY hot.......

 

[Papageorgio]

More from the story:

The May 7, 2012, AP story that disclosed details of the CIA operation in Yemen to stop an airliner bomb plot occurred around the one-year anniversary of the May 2, 2011, killing of Osama bin Laden.

The plot was significant both because of its seriousness and also because the White House previously had told the public it had "no credible information that terrorist organizations, including al-Qaida, are plotting attacks in the U.S. to coincide with the (May 2) anniversary of bin Laden's death."

So this looks like we are starting to understand Benghazi. An administration wedded to the idea that al Qaeda and Islamic terrorism are not threats will do anything to keep the reality from becoming known.

Paging George Orwell.

Next question: When will the first calls for impeachment/resignation come from the media?

This is rich.
DOJ under Obama is in the wrong for investigating the leak of classified information.
DOJ under Bush was totally in the clear when they were doing the same thing routinely just because they could.

Neither is acceptable and it needs to be stopped and this Patriot Act needs to end. Neither side can take the high ground, wrong is wrong.

 

[buckeye45_73]

It will be interesting to see how AG Holder spins THIS one.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news.

The records obtained by the Justice Department listed incoming and outgoing calls, and the duration of each call, for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and the main number for AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP.

Reporters have a right to confidential sources? Since when? Who does this AP leader think he is? What special rights does he think he has?

Conservtive outrage on this is so phony.

I'll file all the faux right wing outrage about this in the "It would be okay if a Republican did it" case history. Maybe in between the socialist Medicare D of Bush and the Illegal Immigrant Amnesty of "Regeanus Maximus".

Of course you would, you're a partisan dipshit, that does anything the gay lobby wants...er the democrat party wants

 

[S.J.]

A scandal a day. Here's the latest from our open and transparent president and his corrupt Justice Department.

Lawmakers from both parties sharply questioned the Justice Department late Monday over its reported effort to secretly obtain two months of phone records from Associated Press journalists, with House Speaker John Boehner’s office saying “they better have a damned good explanation.”

Read more: Lawmakers rip Justice Department over AP phone records grab | Fox News

 

[salem.hills]

People may start coming out of the woodwork against this corrupt administration now.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Outrage! This has never been done before! Outrage!!!!

 

[S.J.]

People may start coming out of the woodwork against this corrupt administration now.

Even Democrats are starting to get fed up with his corruption.

 

[Agit8r]

OMG, they are trying to uncover their own deliberate leaks! lol.

 

[Truthmatters]

Government secretly obtains phone records from journalists - latimes.com


Now if you people have any integrity at all this is a real POSSIBLE SCANDLE instead of the lie rifddled crap you usually tout as some major Impeachment path.


I came here this morning ready with this article to discuss it.


I cant be here when I not here

 

[ba1614]

Boehner needs to nut up and get his head out of his ass.

 

[S.J.]

Boehner needs to nut up and get his head out of his ass.

You see nothing wrong with this?

 

[ba1614]

Boehner needs to nut up and get his head out of his ass.

You see nothing wrong with this?

I sure do, and I think he needs to step up and get some committees in place to find out what the hell is going on with all these invasions of privacy by these assholes. He seems to be scared shitless to take any action.

 

[S.J.]

Boehner needs to nut up and get his head out of his ass.

You see nothing wrong with this?

I sure do, and I think he needs to step up and get some committees in place to find out what the hell is going on with all these invasions of privacy by these assholes. He seems to be scared shitless to take any action.

He commented on it. Said "They'd better have a damned good reason". I hope that's an indication he will pursue it.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Outrage! This has never been done before! Outrage!!!!

Shut up, troll.