{"id":35586,"date":"2013-05-13T18:20:42","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T22:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35586"},"modified":"2013-05-13T18:20:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T22:20:42","slug":"howd-you-like-that-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35586","title":{"rendered":"How’d you like that, AP?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Associated Press<\/a> complains that the Obama Justice Department seized the phone records of several of their reporters in an investigation of the leaked information from one of their anti-terror operations last year;<\/p>\n

In a letter of protest sent to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, AP President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt said the government sought and obtained information far beyond anything that could be justified by any specific investigation. He demanded the return of the phone records and destruction of all copies.<\/p>\n

“There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters. 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,” Pruitt said.<\/p>\n

The government would not say why it sought the records. U.S. 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some of us aren’t all that surprised – if the Obama Administration doesn’t care about the Second Amendment, why should they care about the First Amendment that is supposed to protect the “freedom of the press”? Apparently, the Bill of Rights is considered a “Bill of Suggestions” by this administration. Now, when the IRS targeted conservative organizations no one said much of anything in the press, but it led news stories when President Nixon only asked questions about using the IRS against his enemies. The media climbed on board when this administration wanted to take away the right of legal gun owners. But now they’re interfering with news organizations’ ability to gather news. Who is going to want to give the AP tips in this legal environment? How does that quote from Pastor Martin Niem\u00f6ller go? Something about “…Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.”<\/p>\n

Thanks to ROS for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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