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Attorney General Won't Force New York Times Reporter To Reveal Source
schwit1 (797399) writes Attorney General Eric Holder has decided against forcing a reporter for the New York Times to reveal the identity of a confidential source, according to a senior Justice Department official. The reporter, James Risen, has been battling for years to stop prosecutors from forcing him to name his source for a book that revealed a CIA effort to sabotage Iran's nuclear weapons program. The government wanted Risen's testimony in the trial of a former CIA official, Jeffrey Sterling, accused of leaking classified information.
More about Jeff Sterling here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...
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Luckily, he is James Risen from the New York Times and he only tipped off terrorists to how they were being tracked, so the Obama administration sees no need to press him further. If he were James Rosen from Fox News trying to keep watch on our own government, then he would be labeled a criminal co-conspirator and flight risk by Eric Holder so that they could trace his phone calls and emails.
Um, no. They found out who the source was by going through all his internet traffic, accounts on web sites, logs of his phone calls, including audio of any call that happened to get routed outside of the US [which they all suddenly did once he became a target]. And they also broke into his house and searched it when he was away.
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And they also broke into his house and searched it when he was away
Well, he shouldn't have posted twitter that he just saw the cutest puppy at the mall pet shop.
And fact as is a subset of truth which is also a core of mathematics. Validity, equality, sameness and truth.
However, I would argue the mission of Science is the recording and analysis of observations and measurements. Of course then it all comes down to proving whether the hypothesis is true or not.
While it is in debate whether he played music, listened to it, sang or whatever, there was an instrument called the Cithara at the time which was wooden and comprised 4 to 7 strings. Ancient Egyptian tombs depict lyres, lutes (quite similar to a violin really) and harps. The most correct translation in English involves fiddling and violins. The rest is history.
Good reason to avoid any unwanted attention...
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
The administration depends on cheerleading by the press; they are going to try to avoid making enemies if they can.
You obviously aren't a whore and don't know any. Whores don't try to poach customers from each other. Whores don't take it personally when a customer chooses another whore. I could go on, but it's off-topic. But I can assure you, professional courtesy definitely exists among whores.
My biggest fear is that Iran attacks us with nuclear weapons.... and the POTUS surrenders.
If that happened . . . Obama's crew would blame it on Bush and the CIA.
I am really seriously wondering about what his strategy is right now. He seems to be burning bridges, and pushing both Democrats and Republicans further apart from each other. I used to think that Hilary Clinton was the shoo-in candidate to be the next President of the US.
Now, I am not so sure. Obama seems to want to leave her with a scorched Earth policy to deal with.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Yes, and it's very clear to most people that saying that the Attorney General is "forcing" someone usually means employing lawful methods of persuasion and not physically hijacking their nervous system with a technology that doesn't exist yet.
The meaning of the word 'force' is coloured by its use in context. Same as every word in every language.
You know what...fuck it, just look at nincompoops that posted the first posts, who the hell am I suppose to get this message across to.
My -1 Troll is actually a +1 funny. And my -1 flame is actually a +1 insightfull.
Do you actually believe that there is no exercise of force involved on the part of the state? The force to physically kidnap a person to interrogate them? The force to keep them from leaving an interrogation? The force being threatened during the interrogation? The force of killing someone who ultimately won't comply? And yes, governments will ultimately kill you if you don't comply, no matter how trivial their complaint is. It goes (1) government complaint (2) refuse to pay fine (3) refuse to go to jail (4) killed.
If it's a Fox News reporter, Holder tears the guys life apart and even runs phone taps on his mother and threatens Fox News. In the case of a reporter for the New York Times, he publicly says it's okay. The difference being he already tore apart the NYT times reporter's life. Holder should be in jail for violating the privacy rights of both reporters and attempting to intimidate the press from monitoring and reporting the corruption of Holder and Obama.
I used to think that Hilary Clinton was the shoo-in candidate to be the next President of the US.
Why would you think that? I mean yes, last I heard the Democrats are still planning to run her. But I don't understand why, because once the political machine starts revealing to the public what a rotten human being and traitor to America she has been, she is pretty much guaranteed to lose.
I think having a woman President might be a fine thing. I think Hillary Clinton as President would be an unmitigated disaster.
Perhaps he was just burning CDs or DVDs.
"Freedom in the USA is not the ability to do what you want. It is the ability to stop others from doing what THEY want"
or spend more time with a plastic bag taped over his head.
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Last I heard the Republicans are still planning to run a Republican. But I don't understand why, because once the political machine starts revealing to the public what rotten human beings and traitors to America Republicans have been, they're pretty much guaranteed to lose.
WHOOOOSH!!!
The whole point was that it isn't about man or woman, Republican or Democrat, but about the character of the PERSON running for office.
I know a little bit about Hillary Clinton. And she -- individually, personally, and regardless of what party she is affiliated with -- is a rotten lowlife excuse for a human being.