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First the IRS and now the Justcie Department - 5/13/2013 5:28:01 PM   
LizDeluxe


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Status: offline 		Justice subpoenaed AP phone records, news service says

(CNN) -- The Justice Department secretly collected two months of telephone records for reporters and editors at The Associated Press, the news service disclosed Monday in an outraged letter to Attorney General Eric Holder.

The records included calls from several AP bureaus and the personal phone lines of several staffers, AP President Gary Pruitt wrote. Pruitt called the subpoenas a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into its reporting.

"These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to AP's newsgathering operations and disclose information about AP's activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know," wrote Pruitt, the news agency's CEO.

The AP reported that the government has not said why it wanted the records. But it noted that U.S. officials have said they were probing how details of a foiled bomb plot that targeted a U.S.-bound aircraft leaked in May 2012. The news agency said records from five reporters and an editor who worked on a story about the plot were among those collected, but it said none of the information the government has shared with it suggested agents listened in on any reporters' calls.

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First the IRS and now this. It's been a tough week for law, liberty and honesty in Washington.



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RE: First the IRS and now the Justcie Department - 5/13/2013 6:11:50 PM   
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Cmon Liz, everyone knows Mr Holder is the bestest AG evah! Hell, he's even better than Janet Reno.

This criticism is totally uncalled for, mean spirited, and totally political in nature

It's that damn vast right wing conspiracy rearing it's ugly head! Go Team Eric!

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RE: First the IRS and now the Justcie Department - 5/13/2013 6:19:36 PM   
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My fellow Democrat, the gentleman from Vermont, pretty much sums up my thinking:

In a statement issued Monday night, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy said, "I am very troubled by these allegations and want to hear the government's explanation."

"The burden is always on the government when they go after private information -- especially information regarding the press or its confidential sources," said Leahy, D-Vermont. "I want to know more about this case, but on the face of it, I am concerned that the government may not have met that burden."

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RE: First the IRS and now the Justcie Department - 5/13/2013 7:05:21 PM   
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'subpoenas' caught my attention... I wonder where those came from?


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RE: First the IRS and now the Justcie Department - 5/13/2013 7:13:03 PM   
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RE: First the IRS and now the Justcie Department - 5/13/2013 8:00:34 PM   
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All of a sudden....the cons are bwest fwends with the pwees........



All the sudden the pwess has turned it's back on this administration

Sooner or later President Obama will learn to stop tossing his supporters under the bus.

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RE: First the IRS and now the Justcie Department - 5/13/2013 8:25:23 PM   
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My fellow Democrat, the gentleman from Vermont, pretty much sums up my thinking:

In a statement issued Monday night, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy said, "I am very troubled by these allegations and want to hear the government's explanation."

"The burden is always on the government when they go after private information -- especially information regarding the press or its confidential sources," said Leahy, D-Vermont. "I want to know more about this case, but on the face of it, I am concerned that the government may not have met that burden."



Kudos to Senator Leahy.


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RE: First the IRS and now the Justcie Department - 5/13/2013 8:48:01 PM   
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What fools.

The IRS allowing private prison systems and casinos to file as REITs flies completely under your radar. Right in front of your stupid fat politico potato noses.

To hell in a hand basket, and you idiots will still be snarking at each other the whole way down, completely unaware.

Complete idiots, walking arguments for ...

Sorry, can't say it, however much deserved.





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RE: First the IRS and now the Justcie Department - 5/13/2013 8:51:00 PM   
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quote:

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All of a sudden....the cons are bwest fwends with the pwees........



All the sudden the pwess has turned it's back on this administration

Sooner or later President Obama will learn to stop tossing his supporters under the bus.


Sorry....but it`s best not to hope that others also follow your fantasies as if they were real or argue them as if they were real.....


We`re still waiting you ya`ll to tell us what we`re supposed to be all scared and shit regarding Benghazi but hey,it`s your fantasy


I guess the Obama derangement syndrome isn`t letting our cons remember that they were ok with this.....when shrubby did it.....





The press didn`t turn on the village idiot......bush earned his reputation one lie,one flooded city square,one body-bag at a time.



And the press isn`t going to "turn" on President Obama because they aren`t his friends.They`re going to report the news as always and the chips will fall where they will.



Which is and has always been ok with the President and with most Americans.


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RE: First the IRS and now the Justcie Department - 5/13/2013 8:52:39 PM   
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RE: First the IRS and now the Justcie Department - 5/13/2013 9:01:32 PM   
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Where did I say the Benghazi fuck up was going to go anywhere? With Issa at the helm, the investigation is going nowhere.

But Benghazi + IRS + AG Holder illegally tapping AP phones = a shit load of explaining to do before the 14 election... And now the dems are continuing to shoot themselves in the foot by bringing gun control back into the mix.

To paraphrase Jayne Cobb..."Well that'll be an interestin' day." Or in this case, it's gonna be an interestin' year.

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RE: First the IRS and now the Justcie Department - 5/13/2013 9:07:44 PM   
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RE: First the IRS and now the Justcie Department - 5/13/2013 9:22:58 PM   
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Where did I say the Benghazi fuck up was going to go anywhere? With Issa at the helm, the investigation is going nowhere.

But Benghazi + IRS + AG Holder illegally tapping AP phones = a shit load of explaining to do before the 14 election... And now the dems are continuing to shoot themselves in the foot by bringing gun control back into the mix.

To paraphrase Jayne Cobb..."Well that'll be an interestin' day." Or in this case, it's gonna be an interestin' year.



Like I said.....they`re your`s and your party`s fantasies/talking points......


Please don`t ask me or any non-con to understand them....much less explain them....

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RE: First the IRS and now the Justcie Department - 5/13/2013 9:27:24 PM   
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It may turn into a long hot summer in Washington.



We`ve been wait`n for that often threatened long hot summer......but it never comes......


Obamacare was supposed to be the last one and where did that go.....?



You guys boast like gourmet chefs but all we ever get is soup......


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RE: First the IRS and now the Justcie Department - 5/13/2013 10:07:44 PM   
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Status: offline 		Not much here. When people start looking at right and wrong, rather than Democrat or Republican, then maybe they will not stink of the same corruption and BS that is our politics. Hypocrisy and justification seem to be the latest trend for most Americans these days.



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RE: First the IRS and now the Justcie Department - 5/15/2013 7:19:56 AM   
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Status: offline 		This seems to be the only thread here about the Justice department seizing AP phone records, and there hasn't been a new post for nearly two days. Seriously? Maybe it just needs a catchier title, like "Obama vs Journalism."

We can't have a free press if the press isn't free to talk to its sources. Two months of phone records from at least a hundred journalists...

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RE: First the IRS and now the Justcie Department - 5/15/2013 8:17:20 AM   
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My fellow Democrat, the gentleman from Vermont, pretty much sums up my thinking:

In a statement issued Monday night, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy said, "I am very troubled by these allegations and want to hear the government's explanation."

"The burden is always on the government when they go after private information -- especially information regarding the press or its confidential sources," said Leahy, D-Vermont. "I want to know more about this case, but on the face of it, I am concerned that the government may not have met that burden."



what a politically apologistic way to say they violated the law 6 ways to sunday LOL

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RE: First the IRS and now the Justcie Department - 5/15/2013 8:29:33 AM   
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Status: offline 		But they didn't.  You see there was a man called W, and there was even before him a man called St. Wrinklemeat:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_call_database

18 USC 2701

However, the Stored Communications Act also authorizes phone providers to conduct electronic surveillance if the Attorney General of the United States certifies that a court order or warrant is not required and that the surveillance is required.

So, everybody is in real good shape here. 

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RE: First the IRS and now the Justcie Department - 5/15/2013 8:35:14 AM   
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But they didn't.  You see there was a man called W, and there was even before him a man called St. Wrinklemeat:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_call_database

18 USC 2701

However, the Stored Communications Act also authorizes phone providers to conduct electronic surveillance if the Attorney General of the United States certifies that a court order or warrant is not required and that the surveillance is required.

So, everybody is in real good shape here. 



so the atty general is above the law?

or are you saying the legislature is above the law?

or are you saying there is no law, its whatever the fuck we feel like doing today?





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RE: First the IRS and now the Justcie Department - 5/15/2013 8:49:54 AM   
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