33 minutes ago, Grouse said:

No. What number? This thread?

I do apolgise it was in the wiretap thread not about Sessions

1 hour ago, Ramen087 said:

Support investigative journalism?  It was the previous administration that investigated reporters who were looking into their actions as government officials, which included reading person and professional emails.  

Were you as upset then as you are now?

Remember, the rights and actions you support either through speaking or remaining silent when your preferred candidate holds the highest office will apply to his successor, even if you think your candidate's successor should not hold the office.

 

Yes, here's a couple of quotes from the evil liberal mainstream press which widely and unfavorably reported on the Obama administration's attempts:

 

"An editorial board of the New York Times wrote: "With the decision to label a Fox News television reporter a possible 'co-conspirator' in a criminal investigation of a news leak, the Obama administration has moved beyond protecting government secrets to threatening fundamental freedoms of the press to gather news."^[14]

Dana Milbank of the Washington Post stated: "The Rosen affair is as flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration, and it uses technology to silence critics in a way Richard Nixon could only have dreamed of. To treat a reporter as a criminal for doing his job — seeking out information the government doesn’t want made public — deprives Americans of the First Amendment freedom on which all other constitutional rights are based."^[15]

^{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Department_of_Justice_investigations_of_reporters}

 

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