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Govt obtains wide AP phone records in probe

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Govt obtains wide AP phone records in probe
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.

In all, the government seized those records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. The exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period is unknown but more than 100 journalists work in the offices whose phone records were targeted on a wide array of stories about government and other matters.
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Alright, this getting downright scary. The IRS, the Feds, the cover-up of Benghazi......what in the hell is going on?
 
Govt obtains wide AP phone records in probe

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.
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Big Brother is watching you
 
Boo hoo the press is subject to the same intrusions as everybody else because they have decided that they would rather talk about a Kardashian divorce to sell soap to finance their bloated paychecks than actually earn their claim to be the 4th pillar of democracy.
 
rocket88 said:
I thought you guys hated the AP. Overly "liberal" and what not.
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Oh hey an Obama cult member chirping in defending Fascism. I have never seen that before on these forums :lol:

From the article:

The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news.
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We get it. You're cool with this because the Obama Administration did it.
 
jmotivator said:
Life is not as black and white as you want to make it.
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I don't want to make it black and white. That's a hallmark of how the right sees things. Everything they don't like is "Liberal." Anti-semitism, racism, Nazism - must be libbos.

If, as the right often claims, the scary liberal media is run by the administration, why would they want to do that to their lapdogs?
 
Bronson said:
Oh hey an Obama cult member chirping in defending Fascism. I have never seen that before on these forums :lol:

From the article:



We get it. You're cool with this because the Obama Administration did it.
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I didn't defend anything.

I just find it interesting that Obama would go after his "lapdogs." Disproves something you've said in the past.
 
rocket88 said:
I didn't defend anything.

I just find it interesting that Obama would go after his "lapdogs." Disproves something you've said in the past.
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Disproves what?

That even Obama's lapdogs aren't immune to this corrupt administration abusing it's powers and crapping all over the Constitution?

The butthurt is strong in your posts
 
Bronson said:
Disproves what?

That even Obama's lapdogs aren't immune to this corrupt administration abusing it's powers and crapping all over the Constitution?

The butthurt is strong in your posts
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Um, I'm not usually one to complain about how being a white male makes me overly persecuted.

It disproves this idea that the librul media only do what the administration tells them to do. You don't care about inconsistency - if it's bad about Democrats.
 
rocket88 said:
I don't want to make it black and white. That's a hallmark of how the right sees things. Everything they don't like is "Liberal." Anti-semitism, racism, Nazism - must be libbos.
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Perfect example of your black and white thinking.

If, as the right often claims, the scary liberal media is run by the administration, why would they want to do that to their lapdogs?
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The opposite is closer to the truth. I think you are thinking about how Liberals think that Fox news runs the Republican party.
 
rocket88 said:
Um, I'm not usually one to complain about how being a white male makes me overly persecuted.

It disproves this idea that the librul media only do what the administration tells them to do. You don't care about inconsistency - if it's bad about Democrats.
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It doesn't disprove anything of the sort :lol:

If anything it strengthens the contention that even allies of this corrupt administration aren't immune from Fascist tactics such as this. Goebbels had the press in his back pocket. Do you think that stopped him from monitoring their activities? There is a clear pattern of behavior here. The Obama Administration has repeatedly abused it's powers and used government agencies at it's disposable to further it's political agenda. Whether it be harassing and intimidating the Tea Party and other groups with the IRS, to using the justice department to secretly tap press phone records. Clearly this administration doesn't believe there are limits to it's powers. With multiple scandals already raging and the lapdog press starting to ask serious questions to salvage what little credibility it has left, it wouldn't surprise me if this story was leaked to send a message to the press. "Don't get out of line"

If B00sh did this you'd be screaming impeachment. Since it's Obama you're reduced to defending Gestapo tactics. Good luck with that. :2wave:
 
American said:
We support the 1st Amendment. The scandals are piling up.
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Ding, ding, ding.

4A rights against search and seizure without probable cause, also.
 
Bronson said:
If B00sh did this you'd be screaming impeachment. Since it's Obama you're reduced to defending Gestapo tactics. Good luck with that. :2wave:
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We were screaming and none of the GOP was listening back in 2006. I think it's highly hypocritical of anyone from the right side of politics using a process by a GOP lawmaking body and President they thought was OK in 2006 but now are condemning. Why? Presently, the GOP could get rid of that in the House and I'm sure the Senate would vote to get rid of it, but they're too busy voting on getting rid of a worker's rights to receive overtime right now. :shrug:
 
Its like their just checking off violating of the Bill of Rights.

violate freedom of speech by targeting conservative groups for regulation - check
violate freedom of religion by forcing religious institutions to pay for birth control - check
violate freedom of the press by investigating AP phone records - check
violate right to bear arms by trying to pass gun control - check

Will they killing americans without due process next? Oh wait...
 
Bronson said:
If B00sh did this you'd be screaming impeachment. Since it's Obama you're reduced to defending Gestapo tactics. Good luck with that. :2wave:
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Nice job steering liberals onto that path.

Bob N said:
We were screaming and none of the GOP was listening back in 2006. I think it's highly hypocritical of anyone from the right side of politics using a process by a GOP lawmaking body and President they thought was OK in 2006 but now are condemning. Why? Presently, the GOP could get rid of that in the House and I'm sure the Senate would vote to get rid of it, but they're too busy voting on getting rid of a worker's rights to receive overtime right now. :shrug:
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Case in point.
 
jonny5 said:
Nice job steering liberals onto that path.

Case in point.
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From the AP article

massive and unprecedented intrusion
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Trying to use the "blame b00sh" card in this instance to obfuscate and deflect real abuses of power is pathetic and desperate

They can whine about B00sh all they want. Doesn't excuse this abuse of power.
 
Ever hear of the saying " Never piss off someone who buys ink by the truck load"

So did the AP write an unfavorable story about Obama recently? expect to read some in the near future

the steady drip drip has turned into a steady down pour how much more water can the dam hold up before it burst and sweeps away Obama the tyrant and this corrupt administration with it

what I am very sad about our first President of color will go down in history as the most corupt and failed presidency in American history
 
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