Monday, May 20, 2013
BREAKING NEWS --- DOJ Going after Fox News and Reporter James Rosen --- gets after phone records, etc., without notice — virtually charging him with crime of espionage
The Washinton Post has broken the news that the Obama administration tracked the movements and correspondence of a Fox News reporter. This has led to a fresh round of condemnation by journalists on Monday (See e.g.: “DOJ's Targeting Of Fox News Reporter James Rosen Met With Outrage” by Jack Markinson, 5/2/13, Huffington Post [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/20/james-rosen-justice-department-co-conspirator-obama_n_3305857.html]; “The Department Of Justice Targeted A Fox News Reporter During A Leak Investigation” by Brett LoGiurato, 5/20/13, Business Insider [http://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-james-rosen-doj-department-of-justice-leak-2013-5]). This case involving a source named Stephen Jin-Woo has already been condemned by critics of the White House's hyper-aggressive approach to leaks, but the details of the DOJ's tracking of Rosen have not been known until now.
The Washington Post's Ann E. Marimow laid out the intensity of the DOJ's intrusion into areas protected by the First Amendment in an explosive story about the Justice Department's monitoring of James Rosen, a Fox News reporter based in Washington ( See “A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe” by Ann E. Marimow, 5/19/13, Washington Post [“http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-rare-peek-into-a-justice-department-leak-probe/2013/05/19/0bc473de-be5e-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_print.html]). According to Marinow, Rosen allegedly spoke to Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, a contractor for the U.S. State Department as part of Rosen’s research and reporting on North Korea's nuclear program. As a result of that, the Justice Department charged Kim with violating the Espionage Act for his contact with Rosen. The Marinow article goes into great detail as to how the FBI and DOJ have virtually charged Rosen with being a co-conspirator in Jin Woo-Kim’s espionage and has actually characterized James Rosen as a co-conspirator.
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UPDATE:
ADMINISTRATION STONEWALLS ON DOJ’S SUBPOENAS OF FOX REPORTER —
White House refuses to answer question about subpoena of Fox newsman’s phone records and Emails, except for blah, blah, blah about supporting 1st Amendment and proposed shield law during this afternoon’s press briefing ( “DOJ vs. Fox News Reporter James Rosen” by Jonathan Karl, 5/20/13, ABC News
[http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/doj-vs-fox-news-reporter-james-rosen/]).
“For First Amendment advocates, the most chilling part of the court documents is the suggestion by DOJ that Rosen was “an aider and abettor and/or co-conspirator in the crime” because he was trying to get the information, which was classified, from his source. Seeking sensitive and secret information is something reporters do every day. *** The Rosen story, of course, comes after news the Justice Department had also subpoenaed the phone records of 20 employees of The Associated Press a different leak investigation. *** White House spokesman Jay Carney was peppered with question after question about this at today’s briefing....”
HUFFINGTON POST SAYS “OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ... CRIMINALIZING JOURNALISM”
Writers on the Huffington Post turned the heat up on the Obama Administration even more by making the charge that “[t]he Obama administration’s Justice Department has moved beyond investigating and prosecuting leaks at an unprecedented level to claiming in court documents that committing a standard act of journalism may itself be criminal.” (See “DOJ Targeting Of Fox News Reporter James Rosen Risks Criminalizing Journalism” by Michael Calderone & Ryan J. Reilly, 5/20/13, Huffington Post [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/20/doj-fox-news-james-rosen_n_3307422.html]).
The IRS will become the supreme power. Since its Conservative now to spend trillions of dollars nation building.
Will become ?
The "Feds" meant "Treasury" long before it meant "FBI" ... ask Al Capone.
UPDATE:
MULTIPLE BLOGS are contributing the echo effect, by clamoring about specifics in the DOJ’s intrusive searches directed at Fox News and James Rosen in an alleged National Security-Espionage case this was deemed “... damaging to the United States ...”.
Two different blogs have “reported” that the DOJ does nt plan to charge Fox News reporter James Rosen (See “DOJ: ‘We Do Not Anticipate’ Charges Against FNC Correspondent James Rosen” by Alex Weprin, 5/21/13, TVNEWSER/mediabistro [http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/doj-we-do-not-anticipate-charges-against-fnc-correspondent-james-rosen_b180121]; also “DOJ Official Says “No Charges Were Anticipated” Against Rosen” by Mandy Nagy, 5/21/13, Legal Insurrection [http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/05/doj-official-says-no-charges-were-anticipated-against-rosen/]).
Mandy Nagy’s report in “Legal Insurrection” appears largely to be based on quotes of a DOJ official that originally appeared in the “Huffington Post”( See “James Rosen Subpoena Doesn't Suggest Charges Against Fox News Reporter, DOJ Says” by Ryan J. Reilly, 5/20/13, Huffington Post [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/20/james-rosen-subpoena_n_3309678.html]); whereas the Alex Weprin item in the “Mediabistro” “TVNEWSER” looks like it was based upon quotes reported in the “Washington Post” article by Ann E. Marinow (that article was cited by me in this blog yesterday in the main post above, "BREAKING NEWS --- DOJ Going after Fox News and Reporter James Rosen --- gets after phone records, etc., without notice — virtually charging him with crime of espionage" ).
Another well documented piece on the James Rosen part of the DOJ’s war on journalists and whistleblowers appears in a “Conservative” blog called “Sister Toldjah” (See “DOJ targeted Fox News’ James Rosen as a “co-conspirator” in another leak case” posted by “ST”, 5/21/13, Sister Toldjah [http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2013/05/21/doj-targeted-fox-news-james-rosen-as-a-co-conspirator-in-another-leak-case/]).
Although I have referred to this aspect of the DOJ’s war on journalists and whistleblowers as the “James Rosen part”; it should be noted that yesterday Megyn Kelly and others at Fox News had pointed out that another reporter and a producer at Fox were also part of the DOJ investigations in the same case involving Stephen Jin Woo.
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