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Reporter Phone Records Being Used to Find Leaks
jackbird writes "Brian Ross, Chief Investigative Correspondent for ABC news says a confidential source informed him that reporter's phone records are being used by the administration to track down leaks. Apparently reporters for the New York Times, ABC News, and the Washington Post are being scrutinized. The fact that ABC News journalists are even seriously wondering about whether the warning is connected to the NSA's domestic surveillance activities indicates just how anxious many people in Washington have become."
Send all these freedom-hating reporters who seek the so-called "truth" to Gitmo!
Trolling is a art,
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If leakers are allowed to reveal to reporters how incompetent, corrupt, and dishonest our leaders are, the terrorists have won.
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The intent is not to punish the journalist
Don't be so quick to discount the possibility that the reporter might be an Al Kaida affiliate. The Bush Administration said they were only data mining phone logs of Americans to go after Al Kaida, so if they're focused on a journalist, that journalist is probably an associate of the terrorists. {cough}
Don't Panic! If you're not a reporter, you have nothing to fear from the government!
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Did you even read what you just wrote? Read it again. Here, I'll point out the problem:
My point, and my only point, is that the leakers knew the consequences of what they were doing
Which was followed by:
If they believe what they were doing is right, why do they hide?
Why in the hell would someone openly try to be punished for doing the right thing from those who are doing wrong or evil? Have you ever heard of the Witness Protection Program? Why do you think they hide witnesses?
Guess people shouldn't expect someone with a sig of "666" to understand right from wrong or complex subjects like morality.
Facts have a well known liberal bias.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Even better, some say Bush may simply carry fowards into a "permanent second term".
Selective enforcement of the law is one of the hallmarks of corruption.
There's a greeting card for that?
What's it say? "We know who is wishing you a Happy Birthday!" ??
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