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McGee,
One doesn't have to be fascist is order to have more relaxed views of freedom of the press. In most European democracies, newspapers do not have the protections that exist in the US. That doesn't stop them from being democracies.
My other point is that one can easily construct a fact pattern that justifies monitoring reporters to catch a govt leaker of national security matters. The Patriot Act gives the govt the means to do it.
In which case you would monitor the phone calls of government employee's not reporters.
In which case you would monitor the phone calls of government employee's not reporters.
That was my thinking. If the leak is coming from your own organization and you know who knew the information then you'd go after the leaker, one of your own employees.
Yet I have not seen any news about how many government phone records the DOJ went after.
In which case you would monitor the phone calls of government employee's not reporters.
I actually had some idiot arguing with me while at the VA this morning. He kept insisting that the Justice Dept was tapping the phones of the AP and who they were calling. I tried to explain that was not true, but he said FOX and Drudge said so .... Wow! How does one argue with that? But, as some of you may not be surprised, I did.
That was my thinking. If the leak is coming from your own organization and you know who knew the information then you'd go after the leaker, one of your own employees.
Yet I have not seen any news about how many government phone records the DOJ went after.
George Orwell says hi.
Just tell our government that 1984 wasn't supposed to be an instruction manual.
After all this time (just over a year now), did the DOJ find the source of the leak about the bomb plot in Yemen? I have not seen a news story that says they did.
I would guess that the number of people with the CIA and other intelligence teams that knew about the bomb plot is relatively small. It seems hard to believe that the DOJ couldn't find the leak without looking at AP reporter phone records.
I hope there is some prison time involved for racist Eric Holder! Impeachment for ignorant, scumbag Obama - that would be fantastic!!!! Too bad no hard labor (breaking rocks) comes with being a dumbass, stupid, scumbag Democratic left-wing liberal!!!!! Hahahaha!!!
After all this time (just over a year now), did the DOJ find the source of the leak about the bomb plot in Yemen? I have not seen a news story that says they did.
I would guess that the number of people with the CIA and other intelligence teams that knew about the bomb plot is relatively small. It seems hard to believe that the DOJ couldn't find the leak without looking at AP reporter phone records.
I'd wager that they never even thought to look through government phone records even though the source of the leak would have come from the government.
I'd wager that they never even thought to look through government phone records even though the source of the leak would have come from the government.
Of course not. I wonder why they didn't investigate the series of leaks of national security information last year.
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Wow! How does one argue with that? 
But, as some of you may not be surprised, I did. 
Did the DOJ find the source of the leak?
