GOV/MIL US Justice Department defends handling of Fox News journalist email search

What do you think? I'm not OK with it.


US Justice Department defends handling of Fox News journalist email search - @Reuters

31 mins ago from www.trust.org by editor

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U.S. Justice Dept defends handling of journalist email search
Source: Reuters - Fri, 24 May 2013 08:05 PM

WASHINGTON, May 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Friday that officials up to Attorney General Eric Holder vetted a decision to search an email account belonging to a Fox News reporter whose report on North Korea prompted a leak investigation.

In a statement emailed to Reuters, the department said the search warrant for the reporter's email account followed all laws and policies and won the independent approval of a federal magistrate judge.

http://www.trust.org/item/20130524200520-ws4og

Yeah it won approval of a federal magistrate based only on the claims made by the DOJ without any chance for Fox/Rosen to rebut those claims.

kittyluvr said:

Yeah it won approval of a federal magistrate based only on the claims made by the DOJ without any chance for Fox/Rosen to rebut those claims.

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This is bad.

Judge Nap comments on this issue; saying that Rosen committed no crime.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=v-h6CEC3sck



http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GL42b0o7cYE#!

After hearing all of the reports on Fox today, It is clear to me that folks with VERY deep pockets have lighted a blow torch, and they have begun to turn that blow torch toward the FBI agent that submitted the affidavit that mislead the Federal Magistrate, and toward the U.S. Attorney General who signed the authorization to present the bogus affidavit to the Federal Magistrate. In my view, civil actions will soon be filed, and because the Attorney General lied to the Congress regarding the Just Us Department's policy regarding journalists, the Attorney is, at the very least, going to lose his job. But, it is possible that he will be charged with a crime. The FBI agent has the same exposure.

Zero and his JBT will have NO protection from the media. The current Administration has lost more than even they can imagine. It couldn't happen to a nicer bunch!

IMO,

Woolly

Wait ... are you telling me that the DOJ is crooked? That the feds lied? That Holder (with 0's ok, I'm sure) violated James Rosen's 1st Amendment rights? Well, it's ok ... they're black, so no harm done. The DOJ will investigate and clear Holder of any wrong-doing as soon as they get finished violating everybody else's rights. Crooks in the White House all day long, do dah, do dah...

Magistrates are bought and sold daily. They are the bottom of the feed list. Judges are also bought daily but magistrates are notorious for it. They can always claim incompetence, lack of knowledge, or just plain stupid. This is not going away but I think a few of the DOJ are. Rope anyone.

Roger Ailes: Fox Won't Be Intimidated by Attempts to 'Criminalize' Reporting

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/ai.../2013/05/24/id/506249?s=al&promo_code=139EC-1

By Courtney Coren

Fox News President Roger Ailes blasted the Justice Department Thursday for targeting journalists as if they were criminals and said the government's seizure of reporters' emails and phone records would not stand "the test of law."

"The recent news about the FBI's seizure of the phone and email records of Fox News employees, including James Rosen, calls into question whether the federal government is meeting its constitutional obligation to preserve and protect a free press in the United States," Ailes, a former media and political consultant to President Ronald Reagan, wrote in a "memo of support" to Fox News employees.

"We reject the government's efforts to criminalize the pursuit of investigative journalism and falsely characterize a Fox News reporter to a federal judge as a 'co-conspirator' in a crime," he added, referring to the FBI's tracking of James Rosen in connection with a leak investigation.

Reports of the FBI's tracking of Rosen's movements, phone, and email conversations with a government source followed the disclosure last week that phone records of Associated Press reporters had been seized as part of another Justice Department probe of leaked government information. But unlike the AP reporters, Rosen was named as a "co-conspirator" by FBI officials in a warrant authorization request approved by Attorney General Eric Holder that allowed the search of Rosen's emails.

In his memo, Ailes referred to the Justice Department's actions as an Obama administration "attempt to intimidate Fox news and its employees." He said it would not succeed and that their excuses for targeting reporters would "stand neither the test of law, the test of decency, nor the test of time.

"We will not allow a climate of press intimidation, unseen since the McCarthy era, to frighten any of us away from the truth," he wrote.

Ailes expressed his pride in the Fox News operation and thanked employees for what he called their "tireless effort to report the news."

"I stand with you, I support you and I thank you for your reporting with courageous optimism. Too many Americans fought and died to protect our unique right of press freedom," he continued. "We can't and won't forget that. To be an American journalist is not only a great responsibility, but also a great honor. To be a Fox journalist is a high honor, not a high crime."