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Monday, May 20, 2013
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A Crisis of Authority
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Wall Street Jounal, by James Taranto
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Posted By: BamaMan- 5/20/2013 4:16:03 PM
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Democracy is in peril: That is an emerging theme of the liberal left´s response to the Obama scandals. The argument misses the point, no doubt deliberately. What we are witnessing now is not a crisis of democracy but a crisis of authority. The administrative state, in thrall to a decadent cultural elite, has lost the consent of the governed. "After a week of scandal obsession during which the nation´s capital and the media virtually ignored the problems most voters care about--jobs, incomes, growth, opportunity, education--it´s worth asking if there is something especially flawed about our democracy,"
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White House Chief of Staff knew about
damaging IRS audit, kept Obama in the dark
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New York Post, by S.A. MILLER
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Posted By: FlyRight- 5/20/2013 4:15:03 PM
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WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Serviced scandal today spread further within the White House and closer to President Obama. White House spokesman Jay Carney today disclosed that Obama’s chief of staff, Dennis McDonough, and other top White House officials had advance warning that the IRS was targeting conservative groups. But he insisted McDonough and the other White House officials purposely kept Obama out of the loop.McDonough “rightly chose not to take action” to inform Obama, Carney told reporters at the daily White House briefing.
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Carney: Senior White
House staff knew of IRS probe
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: Drive- 5/20/2013 4:04:05 PM
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WASHINGTON — The White House says White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler was first informed about an audit of the IRS´ inappropriate targeting of conservative groups on April 24 and that she notified senior staff, including Denis McDonough, the chief of staff to President Barack Obama. White House press secretary Jay Carney says Ruemmler "appropriately" decided not to tell Obama at the time because the audit was ongoing. The audit by a Treasury Department inspector general found that IRS employees singled out groups with names like "tea party" and "patriots" for special scrutiny that delayed their applications for tax exempt status.
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Exclusive: Hillary´s Benghazi
´Scapegoat´ Speaks Out
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Daily Beast, by Josh Rogin
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Posted By: Drive- 5/20/2013 4:02:08 PM
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Following the attack in Benghazi, senior State Department officials close to Hillary Clinton ordered the removal of a mid-level official who had no role in security decisions and has never been told the charges against him. He is now accusing Clinton’s team of scapegoating him for the failures that led to the death of four Americans last year. Raymond Maxwell was placed on forced “administrative leave” after the State Department’s own internal investigation, conducted by an Administrative Review Board (ARB) led by former State Department official Tom Pickering.
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Jay Carney catches spears
and defends Obama for not
knowing about IRS abuses
as White House scandal troika
enters third week
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Daily Mail (UK), by David Martosko
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/20/2013 3:46:24 PM
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Amid the political boiling oil of three simultaneous scandals, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney continued Monday to defend the Obama administration´s handling of troubles involving the Departments of Justice, Treasury and State. In a hearing that started 45 minutes late after a one-hour announced delay, Carney said that ´no one in this building intervened in an ongoing, independent investigation´ by the IRS Office of Inspector General, which was examining ´Nine IRS employees´ who were targeting conservative groups for special scrutiny. ´We did not have a copy of the draft report´ before it was leaked to media outlets
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DOJ Reacts to Rosen
Report in Statement
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Fox News, by Staff
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/20/2013 3:45:19 PM
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The Department of Justice released a statement moments ago amid reports of the department obtaining a subpoena in order to access Fox News reporter James Rosen´s personal emails. "Leaks of classified information to the press can pose a serious risk of harm to our national security and it is important that we pursue these matters using appropriate law enforcement tools. Such investigations and prosecutions, including this particular case, follow all applicable laws, regulations, and longstanding Department of Justice policies intended to safeguard the First Amendment interests of the press in reporting the news and the public in receiving it."
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Report faults former U.S.
Attorney Dennis Burke for
Fast and Furious leak
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Politico, by Josh Gerstein
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/20/2013 3:39:55 PM
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Former U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke violated Justice Department policies by releasing a memo written by an Operation Fast & Furious whistleblower to the media, Justice´s Inspector General found in a report issued Monday. The report called Burke´s actions "wholly unbefitting a U.S. Attorney." He resigned after acknowledging the disclosure in 2011, so no discipline by the department is possible. However, Inspector General Michael Horowitz referred the matter to Justice´s legal ethics watchdogs for possible referral to bar authorities in the District of Columbia and Arizona.
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Morning Joe Meteorologist:
Tornado Averted ´By The
Grace of Whatever´
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Newsbusters, by Mark Finkelstein
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/20/2013 3:35:05 PM
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Let me preface by saying that I´m not criticizing Bill Karins for his choice of words. Thank, uh, goodness, we live in a country where we´re free to believe in any God or no God at all. But I do see Karins´ construction as a sign of the cultural times. The Morning Joe meteorologist today aired dramatic footage of the weatherman at the NBC affiliate in Wichita, Kansas ordering his colleagues to take shelter because a tornado was headed right at the station. Said Karins: "By the grace of whatever, God or whatever else, it lifted
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Malkin To Kelly: IRS Not Just
Scandal Because Of ‘Ideology,’
But Because Of Obama’s ‘Brass-
Knuckled Intimidation’
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Mediaite, by Matt Wilstein
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/20/2013 3:34:03 PM
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Michelle Malkin joined Megyn Kelly on Fox News Monday afternoon to discuss the latest developments in the investigation into the IRS targeting conservatives for audits. Malkin insisted it was not merely her “ideology” that has led to critique the Obama administration on their handling of the IRS issue and others, but rather the evidence she’s seen of their “bully brigade tactics” to “intimidate and criminalize their political opponents.” Malkin began by going after White House Press Secretary Jay Carney for his handling of the various Obama “scandals,” saying the “clown Carney press briefings have turned in
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Obama Met With IRS Union
Boss Day Before Tea Party
Targeting Began
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Breitbart Big Government, by Wynton Hall
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/20/2013 3:26:24 PM
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The White House Visitors Log reveals that President Barack Obama met with Internal Revenue Service (IRS) union boss Colleen Kelley on March 31, 2010—the day before the Inspector General´s report says the IRS began its scheme to target tea party and conservative groups. Furthermore, Obama appointed Colleen Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), to the Federal Salary Council whose job is to recommend pay raises for IRS and other federal employees one week after Obama and Democrats suffered historic midterm losses in 2010. Two years later, Kelley’s 150,000-member union had raised $580,412,
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Outside the Gates
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Canada Free Press, by Joy Tiz
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Posted By: snowcloud- 5/20/2013 3:20:52 PM
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Nobody drowned or died at Watergate. Nor was the First Amendment done away with. It’s time to quit referring to the White House’s current plethora of scandals as “Gates”. There is no Benghazi Gate. Watergate was a bungled break in. The Obama administration’s current round of scandals shouldn’t be diminished by comparisons to something as relatively trivial as Watergate. An American ambassador and three courageous Americans died at Benghazi and we still don’t have the slightest idea where the Commander in Chief was during the eight hour fire fight.
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Fox News Will Defend Reporter
Against ´Co-Conspirator´ Charge
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Fox News, by Staff
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/20/2013 3:05:36 PM
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The Justice Department, already under fire for seizing AP phone records, also viewed e-mails of Fox News chief Washington correspondent James Rosen, calling him a criminal ´co-conspirator´ for his reporting. Fox News´ executive vice president of news, Michael Clemente, released a statement defending Rosen. The statement issued Monday afternoon is below: "We are outraged to learn today that James Rosen was named a criminal co-conspirator for simply doing his job as a reporter," Clemente said. "In fact, it is downright chilling. We will unequivocally
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Former Counterterrorism Head:
FBI Never Called Ft. Hood
´Workplace Violence´
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Breitbart´s Big Peace, by Kerry Picket
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/20/2013 2:49:11 PM
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Michael Steinbach, former head of the FBI’s counterterrorism division and now special agent in charge of Miami, told over 30 congressional staffers in March of 2012 that, contrary to the White House´s classification, the bureau does not refer to the Fort Hood shooting as "workplace violence." As head of the FBI counterterrorism division, Steinbach oversaw the investigation into the mass murder at Texas Army base. Steinbach made this claim during an unclassified counterterrorism briefing on Capitol Hill. “Do you guys teach your agents that Fort Hood was workplace violence?” one staffer asked.
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‘Co-Conspirator’: Fox News Reporter
James Rosen’s Private Emails Given
To Justice Dept. By Google
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Mediaite, by Noah Rothman
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/20/2013 2:35:31 PM
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As a result of Fox News Channel’s State Department reporter James Rosen’s 2009 investigation into the government’s response to North Korea’s repeated provocations, it was reported on Monday that the Department of Justice tracked Rosen’s movements as well as subpoenaed telephone and email records. According to the DoJ’s subpoena, Google surrendered Rosen’s emails, who is described as “an aider and abettor and/or co-conspirator,” to the government. “Rosen was not charged with any crime, but it is unprecedented for the government, in an official court document, to accuse a reporter of breaking the law for conducting the
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Senate Finance Committee issues
request for detailed information on
IRS targeting scandal by May 31st
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Hot Air, by Ed Morrissey
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/20/2013 2:25:18 PM
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The House has already begun its investigation of the IRS scandal, with Friday’s hearing in the House Ways and Means Committee. The Senate Finance Committee will follow in short order, and it has already issued a “request” for detailed information from the agency about its targeting of conservative groups over the last three years. Ironically, it looks a lot like the kind of request that the agency sent out to those groups, with 41 demands and just 11 days to respond. The letter, provided by a source on Capitol Hill, shows that the questioning is likely to feel a lot like an audit:
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Marco Rubio Reacts to Report Fox
News Reporters Were Targeted by DOJ
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Fox News, by Staff
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/20/2013 2:12:58 PM
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U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) issued the following statement after a report was released claiming that the Obama Administration targeted a FOX News reporter during a leak investigation: “I am very concerned by reports the Obama Administration targeted a FOX News reporter for possible criminal prosecution for doing what appears to be normal news-gathering protected by the First Amendment. The sort of reporting by James Rosen detailed in the report is the same sort of reporting that helped Mr. Rosen aggressively pursue questions about the Administration’s handling of Benghazi.
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Megyn Kelly Calls Out DOJ
for Tracking Movements of
Fox News Reporter
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Fox News, by Staff
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/20/2013 2:07:56 PM
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After another troubling report about the Justice Department´s crackdown on media leaks, Megyn asks, "how many times has this happened?" We´re learning more by the minute following an explosive report by the Washington Post about the Justice Department monitoring the movements of Fox News Chief Washington Correspondent James Rosen. The DOJ was reportedly looking into Rosen´s visits to the State Department, via his security badge, in addition to obtaining search warrants for his personal phone and emails. It all stemmed from a leak by someone in the State
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America´s Latino future
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BBC News [UK], by Mark Mardell
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/20/2013 2:04:38 PM
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The floor of the community centre in Springdale, Arkansas, shakes to a staccato rhythm as the young Latino dancers practise their steps. [Snip] It is about nourishing their Mexican roots, making sure their culture doesn´t shrivel and die in this corner of the Deep South. I have come to Springdale because it is a harbinger of America´s future. Ten years ago there were hardly any Latinos here--now they make up more than 30% of the population. Predictions suggest that by 2030, this is what the US will look like. Changing attitudes? Right now, one in four Americans under 18 is
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Squelching the Tea Party
Gave Obama the Election
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American Thinker, by Karin McQuillan
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Posted By: LC Hoghead- 5/20/2013 2:01:13 PM
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Remember all the headlines during the election, wondering what happened to the Tea Party, the liberal crowing that it had gone silent? NPR, February 2012: "Strong in 2010, Where Is the Tea Party Now?" - "what´s most striking about the movement this election has been its notable absence." Mother Jones, "The Tea Party is Dead." ." ABC: "What Happened to the Tea Party?" New York Times, June 2012: "The Movement Has Fizzled Out." Remember how odd it was hear conservative pundits saying, 'our voters would crawl over broken glass to vote against Obama', while pollsters correctly predicted that Republican turnout would be nowhere near what it was in 2010? Remember 2010, when the Tea Party grassroots roared?
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Organized labor to oppose President
Obama´s nomination of Penny Pritzker
for commerce secretary
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New York Daily News, by James Warren
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Posted By: drive- 5/20/2013 1:53:34 PM
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Organized labor will break its silence and oppose President Obama´s nominee for Commerce Secretary, Chicago´s Penny Pritzker, the Daily News has learned. The decision stems from long-standing grievances with labor practices at the Hyatt Hotels chain, a source of her family´s fortune, and despite earlier reports that unions would not raise objections to the nomination. Donald "D" Taylor, president of the national Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees (HERE), confirmed the move to The News on Monday. His opposition was spurred by his just learning that the Senate Commerce Committee was moving up its confirmation hearing for Pritzker.
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Bill Kristol: Obama ‘Did Not Behave’
The Way A President Should
On Night Of Benghazi Attack
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Mediaite, by Noah Rothman
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/20/2013 1:41:51 PM
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In an appearance on C-SPAN on Monday, Bill Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, scolded President Barack Obama for what reports suggest was his hands-off approach to the ongoing crisis in Benghazi on the night of an attack on that city’s American consulate. “I am willing to say that he did not behave as a President of the United States should have behaved that night,” Kristol said. A C-SPAN caller asked Kristol about the second phase of the Benghazi attack, in which militants laid siege to an annex for several hours. The caller asked about the
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Report: DOJ Leaked Docs
To Smear Fast & Furious
Whistleblower, Says IG
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Breitbart Big Government, by Matthew Boyle
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Posted By: drive- 5/20/2013 1:38:38 PM
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General published a new report Monday that confirms former U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke leaked a document intended to smear Operation Fast and Furious scandal whistleblower John Dodson. The DOJ IG said it found “Burke’s conduct in disclosing the Dodson memorandum to be inappropriate for a Department employee and wholly unbefitting a U.S. Attorney.”
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MSNBC Dutifully Demonizes
Conservative Black GOP Politician:
‘He Might Make Todd Akin
Look Like A Moderate’
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Newsbusters, by Jeffrey Meyer
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/20/2013 1:33:47 PM
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Now that the race for Virginia’s next governor has kicked into high gear, NBC News’ Chief White House Correspondent has decided to be partisan and sharply criticized the Republican ticket. On his May 20 edition of The Daily Rundown, the MSNBC anchor hammered the GOP’s nominee for Virginia Lieutenant Governor, African-American pastor E.W. Jackson, as extreme and someone who “might make Todd Akin look like a moderate.” "Can the GOP win in 2013 with a ticket of candidates who are best known for being very conservative and very outspoken on social issues?" Todd rhetorically asked before playing several clips
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Three Fox News Staffers
Targeted By Justice Department
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Breitbart Big Journalism, by John Nolte
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Posted By: drive- 5/20/2013 1:30:44 PM
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Fox News reports that three Fox staffers, two reporters and one producer, were targeted by Barack Obama´s Justice Department. Fox doesn´t have all the details yet on a reporter William La Jeunesse and producer Mike Levine, but their emails showed up in a IG report regarding Fast and Furious. Either their emails were leaked by the Justice Department officials they were sent to, or the email accounts of both were subpoenaed and invaded by government investigators. The IG report does say that subpoenas were issued to obtain emails. Whose email was targeted is not yet known.
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Brit Hume: ‘Chilling’ Search Of
Fox Reporter Shows DOJ Treats
‘Ordinary News Gathering As Crime’
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Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/20/2013 1:24:38 PM
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Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume had strong words to describe the news that his colleague James Rosen was subject to a federal leak investigation, telling America’s Newsroom that the story may indicate that the Obama Justice Department wants to treat ordinary news-gathering activities as a crime. As we reported earlier this morning, Fox News’ chief Washington correspondent Rosen was investigated in 2009 after being suspected by Justice of receiving secret information from government sources on North Korea. As part of their investigation, Justice tracked his movements within the State Department, traced the timing
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