FBI targets FOX news chief

Molinaro said:
Was the New York Times the 1st to publish the story? If other papers only re-report a story from the one that broke it, it's not likely the place you would go with your warrant.
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They actually partnered with wikileaks as I recall.
 
Tony said:
How dare a black democrat try to keep government secrets from being leaked! That is a job for white people.
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So you support the government going after reporters who try to get government employees to disclose confidential information?
 
Corsair 115 said:
Hmmm, I seem to recall quite a furor over the various WikiLeaks postings some years back and plenty of conservatives and others happy to see the arm of government attempting to track down and punish those who supplied the leaked information.

Or is my recollection faulty?
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If you refer to the Julien slimeball, please note I am a liberal (gun toting liberal).
 
Watching the conservatives here fan themselves with their tissues and head to the fainting couch is hillarious.
 
applecorped said:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-fbi-reporter-20130521,0,661230.story

"The FBI obtained a sealed search warrant to read a Fox News reporter's personal emails from two days in 2010 after arguing there was probable cause he had violated espionage laws by soliciting classified information from a government official, court papers show.
The case marks the first time the government has gone to court to portray news gathering as espionage, and Fox News officials and 1st Amendment advocates reacted angrily Monday after the secret warrant was reported by the Washington Post."


The defense of this should be interesting.
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Too funny.....
 
applecorped said:
Yes, abuse of power is hilarious. Especially when it conforms to your worldview.:rolleyes:
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The only abuse would be if a reporter thought the law did not apply to them.

How you see getting a search warrant as part of criminal investigation as abuse of power is bewildering to me.
 
Molinaro said:
The only abuse would be if a reporter thought the law did not apply to them.

How you see getting a search warrant as part of criminal investigation as abuse of power is bewildering to me.
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So why hasn't the reporter been charged? The government sad he had committed a crime to get around the Privacy Protection Act, which otherwise forbids them from going after reporter's notes and such.
 
It's the equivalent of the old South Park "it's coming right at us" excuse to shoot endangered animals. They just proclaim the reporter is breaking the law, and magically the Privacy Protection Act doesn't apply.
 
And I'm certain the conservative tissue-wavers would be equally upset if the FBI had done this to a "liberal, Obama-lovin' mainstream media" channel.
 
Elypsis44 said:
And I'm certain the conservative tissue-wavers would be equally upset if the FBI had done this to a "liberal, Obama-lovin' mainstream media" channel.
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And I'm sure it will still be hilarious to you when the Jeb Bush admin does it.
 
Elypsis44 said:
Watching the conservatives here fan themselves with their tissues and head to the fainting couch is hillarious.
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Well... if you're fine with legitimizing this sort of action on someone related to a news organization you aren't politically aligned with, just don't complain if it ever happens to someone in CNN, MSNBC, or elsewhere that's more "friendly" or "unbiased" according to your political spectrum, because that sets a precedent on how other news organizations are handled. I don't particularly find any of this matter funny, if the government wants to stop leaks it should start with those who leak the information to begin with, but advocating to go after media reporters opens a can worms that far outweighs being able to boast how people I don't agree with just got "owned". The moment I begin approving of this being done to those on the other side of the political aisle is the moment I give them them legitimacy when they decide my ideology is to "extreme" to let free by their standards..

Sorry... the whole Chavez style of governing thing just doesn't work for me.
 
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"Most transparent administration in history." Either that was straight-up ******** or all previous admins were hiding some serious ****.

Unless someone at Fox paid or pressured (blackmail or the like) someone to give up this information, this is nothing more than FBI harassment of the press. Is Mueller taking lessons from J. Edgar Hoover?
 
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