Thursday, May 30, 2013

The Fox Applies for the Henhouse Job and He Has an Agent

'I am troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may chill the investigative journalism that holds government accountable," President Obama said in a speech Thursday at the National Defense University. "Journalists should not be at legal risk for doing their jobs." He continued, "I have raised these issues with the attorney general, who shares my concern. So he has agreed to review existing Department of Justice guidelines governing investigations that involve reporters, and will convene a group of media organizations to hear their concerns as part of that review. And I have directed the attorney general to report back to me by July 12."

Now the Doppelganger alert. NBC News has reported that the attorney general, Eric Holder, personally signed off on a controversial search warrant that identified Fox News reporter James Rosen as a "possible co-conspirator" in violations of the Espionage Act and authorized seizure of his private emails.
So the President is shocked--shocked!-- that pressure has been brought against the free press by the government's legal arm and is asking the guy who authorized it to investigate where it came from.

Fortunately he "shares..[the president's] ..concern."

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