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Most of you are dumb. The Patriot Act passed under Bush allows this to occur. I don't like it, but it is not illegal.
Its also comical that the majority of you conservatives who have done nothing more than bemoan the 'lame stream media' are suddenly super concerned about them.
It gets funnier when you consider the GOP demands to leave no stone unturned to find out how the leak occurred that triggered the subpoenas.
“The FBI has to do a full and complete investigation, because this really is criminal in the literal sense of the word to leak out this type of sensitive, classified information on really almost unparalleled penetration of the enemy,” Representative Peter King, a New York Republican who is chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said in an interview today on CNN’s “State of the Union” television program.
King said reports provided to some news organizations on counterterrorism measures that included use of a double agent and disrupted a plot to build a potentially undetectable airline bomb “caused the operation to be cut short before it could get all the information that could have been gotten.”
Representative Mike Rogers, a Republican from Michigan who heads the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said his panel is conducting a “preliminary review” into what he termed “a damaging leak.”
“We will make a determination -- either a full-blown committee investigation or we’ll refer it to criminal charges to the FBI,” he said on the CBS program “Face the Nation.”
From Yahoo News - "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." Govt obtains wide AP phone records in probe
I think this administration is losing their minds. Spying on the AP? Turning on one of the mainstays of the MSM? What a glorious turf war this is going to start.
Oh, this is going to be a lovely mess. I can hardly wait.
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."
Believe me, neither you nor I have anything worthy of being listened to. I would bet my last nickel they never listened to you or me.
Should they be allowed to? No. But the fact remains there aren't enough people on earth to spy on the average citizen's phone calls and/or email. They aren't going to waste their time unless there's a reason. If you wish to use keywords in your communications, they might sit up straight and pay attention, like the freaking IRS did. I'm more offended by that than I am about them listening to my worthless phone calls.
LOL! Trying to save the OP some right wing face? Nice.
Fact is, your OP (I'm sure a right winger like you) had no f clue his favorite president is famous for a freedom-denying measure unlike the U.S. has ever seen. If I were him, I'd remove the OP, if possible.
LOL! Trying to save the OP some right wing face? Nice.
Fact is, your OP (I'm sure a right winger like you) had no f clue his favorite president is famous for a freedom-denying measure unlike the U.S. has ever seen. If I were him, I'd remove the OP, if possible.
I'm not a right-winger.
Bush was one of the worst Kings in American history and should be in jail, along with Darth Cheney and Rummy.
And nice of you to avoid the fact that Obama (a right-winger himself) extended the Patriot Act and signed the NDAA, which makes the Patriot Act look like a vacation in Maui.
Bush? You mean the guy who brought us the Patriot Act? You serious, Clark?
Whereas we now have Obama, the guy that not only preserved all of the Patriot Act from the Bush era, and even expanded portions. The President whose own Justice Department just secretly rolled up phone records of AP reporters. Please, lecture on about the evils of invasions of Fourth Amendment rights while the current administration makes even more of a mockery of them than the previous, though hard to believe...
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