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Kathianne
05-26-2013, 02:23 AM
Will that change the 'nothing to see here meme?"

I doubt it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/us/leaks-inquiries-show-how-wide-a-net-is-cast.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0


May 25, 2013

<nyt_headline version="1.0" type=" ">Leak Inquiries Show How Wide a Net U.S. Cast</nyt_headline> <nyt_byline> By ETHAN BRONNER (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/ethan_bronner/index.html), CHARLIE SAVAGE (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/charlie_savage/index.html) and SCOTT SHANE (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/scott_shane/index.html) </nyt_byline> <nyt_correction_top> </nyt_correction_top> WASHINGTON — Even before the F.B.I. conducted 550 interviews of officials and seized the phone records of Associated Press reporters in a leak investigation connected to a 2012 article about a Yemen bomb plot, agents had sought the same reporters’ sources for two other articles about terrorism.


In a separate case last year, F.B.I. agents asked the White House, the Defense Department and intelligence agencies for phone and e-mail logs showing exchanges with a New York Times reporter writing about computer attacks on Iran. Agents grilled officials about their contacts with him, two people familiar with the investigation said.


And agents tracing the leak of a highly classified C.I.A. report on North Korea to a Fox News reporter pulled electronic archives showing which officials had gained access to the report and had contact with the reporter on the day of the leak.


The emerging details of these and other cases show just how wide a net the Obama administration has cast in its investigations into disclosures of government secrets, querying hundreds of officials across the federal government and even some of their foreign counterparts.


The result has been an unprecedented six prosecutions and many more inquiries using aggressive legal and technical tactics. A vast majority of those questioned were cleared of any leaking.


On Thursday, President Obama (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per) ordered a review (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/24/us/politics/obama-offering-support-for-press-freedom-orders-review-of-leak-investigations.html?_r=0) of Justice Department procedures for leak investigations, saying he was concerned that such inquiries chilled journalists’ ability to hold the government accountable. But he made no apology for the scrutiny of the many officials whose records were searched or who had been questioned by the F.B.I.

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Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
05-26-2013, 05:31 AM
Will that change the 'nothing to see here meme?"

I doubt it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/us/leaks-inquiries-show-how-wide-a-net-is-cast.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

As usual the article points to how obama is above the fray and now investigating the apossible abuse by the DOJ.
The media just can not bring itelf to blame him for anything. The hands off addiction to their favorite drug of choice must prevail. The "messiah" drug is strong and so very pleasurable. Far more powerful than cocaine, meth or heroin. Liberals are weakazz chumps with a small brain and no gonads.
A damn blind monkey could see what a lying fraud obama is but not those freaking clowns!
He promises to destroy their "enemy" and for that they(the few smart ones) are willing to let him destroy them to ! Tyr

taft2012
05-26-2013, 05:47 AM
Will that change the 'nothing to see here meme?"


I didn't click and read the whole thing, but where is the DOJ trailing the NY Times Reporter part?

I'm just seeing investigators shaking up government agencies looking for the leak source, which is what they're supposed to do.

There's no problem with the government going after its own people leaking classified information. There's not even anything wrong with pursuing the media for the identity of the leaker, but that should be a last resort after thorough internal investigations come up empty.

As conservatives we're on the sidelines in this matter, enjoying the liberals squirming with their own hypocrisy and eating their news media allies. Remember, these are the same phonies who insisted Robert Novak be grilled in court about his source on the Valerie Plame phony issue. The protections they seek for the news media are not professional or even ethical. They're partisan.

Now they have to protect both Obama and their valued news media. They don't need anything more for Obama, but they're going to need the news media again for future elections. It's fun watching them navigate this minefield.

taft2012
05-26-2013, 06:35 AM
... and now after reading the entire article, which amounted to a recounting of the recent history of the free press versus the interests of national security, I see the New York Times has completely expunged the Novak-Plame story from history. Even though it was the most important story in recent years related to the subject.

But, of course, the NY Times really didn't have a choice, did they? The role they played was shameful.

aboutime
05-26-2013, 04:28 PM
... and now after reading the entire article, which amounted to a recounting of the recent history of the free press versus the interests of national security, I see the New York Times has completely expunged the Novak-Plame story from history. Even though it was the most important story in recent years related to the subject.

But, of course, the NY Times really didn't have a choice, did they? The role they played was shameful.


taft. WILL THIS HELP? http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/valerie_plame/index.html

And, this ROBERT NOVAK...http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/magazine/15WWLN-Q4-t.html?_r=0

taft2012
05-26-2013, 06:59 PM
taft. WILL THIS HELP? http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/valerie_plame/index.html

And, this ROBERT NOVAK...http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/magazine/15WWLN-Q4-t.html?_r=0

Oh yes, quite good. Thank you. :clap:

Kathianne
05-26-2013, 07:38 PM
Valarie Plame Wilson aside, Novak was a great reporter. Evans & Novak was a required read for me, along with Jack Anderson.

There was a time that journalists were journalists, not cheerleaders for one side.

aboutime
05-26-2013, 08:14 PM
Valarie Plame Wilson aside, Novak was a great reporter. Evans & Novak was a required read for me, along with Jack Anderson.

There was a time that journalists were journalists, not cheerleaders for one side.


Amen to that Kathianne. Today, we have very few actual, trained, professional journalists who are capable of unbiased, non-partisan reporting. In fact. Almost everywhere we look today. From the Alphabet networks to the Cables....Journalism Wannabe's who are amateur in their profession. Are nothing but the WANNABE, almost Minimum Wage, Journalism school dropouts who do not care, or know the differences between RIGHT and WRONG, or LIES and TRUTH.

How can any of us expect to learn the TRUTH. When those who are pretending to know it...Wouldn't know the differences?