{"id":18859,"date":"2013-05-20T10:03:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T14:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18859"},"modified":"2013-05-20T10:03:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T14:03:17","slug":"the-consequences-of-reporting-the-news-not-the-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18859","title":{"rendered":"The Consequences Of Reporting The News–Not The Spin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Breitbart.com<\/a> is reporting today that the Obama Administration<\/a> took actions to intimidate the press long before they got to the Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Rosen (James Rosen<\/a> of Fox News) wrote on his blog that U.S. intelligence officials felt that North Korea<\/a> would respond to United Nations sanctions with more nuclear tests. That information was apparently given him by Kim (Stephen Jin-Woo Kim<\/a>, a State Department<\/a> arms expert).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even though it has not been proven to this day that it\u2019s illegal for a reporter to solicit information, because of the First Amendment\u2019s protection of the press, the Obama Administration went to work. The Justice Department<\/a> not only grabbed Rosen\u2019s telephone records, they used security badge access records to track the Rosen\u2019s visits to the State Department, traced the timing of his calls with Kim, and obtained a search warrant for Rosen\u2019s e-mails.<\/strong><\/p>\n

First of all, James Rosen is a good reporter–he has been doing this for a while. The statement that North Korea would respond to sanctions with more nuclear tests was not earthshaking. Second of all, the Justice Department’s investigation is clearly overreach.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

First Amendment lawyer Charles Tobin said, \u201cSearch warrants like these have a severe chilling effect on the free flow of important information to the public. That\u2019s a very dangerous road to go down.\u201d Attorney Abbe Lowell<\/a>, who is defending Kim, asserted, \u00a0\u201cThe latest events show an expansion of this law enforcement technique. Individual reporters or small time periods have turned into 20 [telephone] lines and months of records with no obvious attempt to be targeted or narrow.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

FBI agent Reginald Reyes wrote in an affidavit that Rosen had broken the law \u201cat the very least, either as an aider, abettor and\/or co-conspirator.\u201d But that statement may well conflict with First Amendment rights<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I understand that most of the mainstream media is philosophically aligned with President Obama<\/a>, but keeping that is mind, there are two aspects of this story that I find interesting. First of all, do members of the press care when one of their own is subject to extreme scrutiny by the Justice Department? Second, is it easier to go along with the Obama Administration’s taking points than to take a chance on being investigated for reporting the truth?<\/p>\n

The story of the investigation of James Rosen along with the excessive investigation of Associated Press reporters should give all Americans reason to question everything they read from the mainstream media. We are reaching a point where reporters will be afraid to report the truth for fear of retribution.<\/p>\n

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