White House Accused of Altering Press Pool Reports.....

[Karl]

Uh oh :shock: ..... Say it isn't so. This could end up being some major trouble for BO and his Team. Just what BO needed, another scandal to arise showing just why he cannot be trusted. Now the MS media can start going at him full tilt. What say ye?

By now you're probably sick of being reminded about President Obama's promise to run the "most transparent administration in history[/B]," but unfortunately that promise continues to be broken on a regular basis and therefore, we have to keep talking about it. Just one year after the Department of Justice was caught monitoring emails and phone lines of reporters and executives (and their parents) from a host of media outlets ranging from the Associated Press to Fox News [...]

Townhall: White House Accused of Altering Press Pool Reports - Katie Pavlich

Townhall gives no evidence of their claim in bold. Considering what we know about the AP case and the Rosen (Fox) case, where call records consisting of telephone numbers (not content) were obtained apparently after-the-fact, the claim of "monitoring phone lines" -- which the typical person would likely consider to be "tapping" the phone line and listening in on calls -- should be considered a lie.

 

[MMC]

Please note that neither your post above nor the Greenwald article contain the word "tap" or "wiretap". Nor did your previous link to a Fox News article contain the word "tap" or "wiretap". Now I'm fairly sure you got your claim below from a hysterical Congressman that since retracted, so why not quote him so everyone can read the retraction?



Enjoy the fail :thumbs:

Yeah, it didn't say wire tap and as usual as a Progressive you placed your HOPE on one word and terminology thinking you can deflect from this issue. Still haven't figured out about those Obtained records yet, huh. Bottomline.....It was all Press Intimidation. That which you say never happened. Yet the ACLU did show why you didn't know what you were talking about and were wrong. As Usual!


The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, for general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and for the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP. It was not clear if the records also included incoming calls or the duration of the calls.....snip~ <<<<< From the Fox Link.


Nah, and once again you assumed what I got came from a Politician. Which again as usual.....you are wrong. So you will need to put away the cracked crystal ball when trying to think for another. Shuffle up those tarot cards again. See if you can come up with something meaningful. Rather than show all that fail pail.

Oh and those Highlighted blue words at Townhall will take you to the direct source. Like it did with Mediaite, WAPO, and Politico with what was reported about the Press Pools.

Also The Bottomline is.....BO peep and his team isn't so transparent. Which is why Politico conducted a survey on the issue. They have the habit of lying all the time and making **** up. Kind of like most progs.

 

[MMC]

Townhall gives no evidence of their claim in bold. Considering what we know about the AP case and the Rosen (Fox) case, where call records consisting of telephone numbers (not content) were obtained apparently after-the-fact, the claim of "monitoring phone lines" -- which the typical person would likely consider to be "tapping" the phone line and listening in on calls -- should be considered a lie.

:Oopsie Oh look :shock: .....a link from Townhall about the issue of Rosens parents. Looks like you are wrong there.....again. :roll:



Fox anchor: Justice Department seized phone records for reporter James Rosen’s parents

Fox News anchor Bret Baier says that in addition to seizing the phone records of Fox reporter James Rosen, the Department of Justice seized the records of his parents as well in another twist to the still-unraveling saga. “We said the different numbers; we have the documents now, the seized … records relate to James’ parents’ home in Staten Island,” he said on “Special Report with Bret Baier.”

Ryan Lizza of the New Yorker reported Tuesday that Ronald C. Machen Jr., the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, who is prosecuting the case, seized records “associated with two phone numbers at the White House, at least five numbers associated with Fox News, and one that has the same area code and exchange as Rosen’s personal-cell-phone number (the last four numbers are redacted).”

Read more: Fox anchor: Justice Department seized phone records for reporter James Rosen's parents - Washington Times
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Next!

 

[Karl]

:Oopsie Oh look :shock: .....a link from Townhall about the issue of Rosens parents. Looks like you are wrong there.....again. :roll: [...]

Please, enough with the propaganda train -- obtaining phone records after the fact =/= "tapping" or "wiretapping".

Your argument presupposes that people reading it are stupid. That only exists within the right wing echo chamber, not without. Your arguments would be better suited for the Freeper crowd or one of the other right wing boards. Here they are just amassing a rather huge amount of fail.

The current state of law is that obtaining phone records (call records) is legal; sometimes with a warrant (in the cases mentioned, IIRC), often times without. It appears that with regards to the events you have brought up, no laws were broken in either case.

Wiretapping is a different issue; it is my understanding that pretty much in all cases a warrant is required. Wiretapping is considered a higher level of government intrusion, which I'm sure is why you are trying to equate the call records with wiretapping. Such an equating, in light of all the facts presented, is a lie. That is the bottom line.

If you merely want to complain about the record collection, then fine. Just spare us the unwarranted (no pun) escalation. If warrants were obtained for these records, and if they were pertinent to a reasonable investigation, then barring any further revelation I would have no problem with them. For the record I am opposed to the warrantless gov't collection of this type of data from anyone.

 

[MMC]

Please, enough with the propaganda train -- obtaining phone records after the fact =/= "monitoring" or "tapping" or "wiretapping".

Your argument presupposes that people reading it are stupid. That only exists within the right wing echo chamber, not without. Your arguments would be better suited for the Freeper crowd or one of the other right wing boards. Here you're just amassing a rather huge amount of fail.

Yeah.....exactly. That's why I told you to go back to think Progress for some more talking points from the beginning. :roll:

Oh and don't think any didn't see that the link.....that was there all the time. The one you said wasn't.

Also.....it still doesn't change what the OP is about nor BO and his teams tactics of Intimidation and messing with Reports. No matter how much you deflect, nor attempt to shield YOUR MAN!

 

[MMC]

Regardless of what other administrations did or did not do - the Obama administration went on record as being the most transparent. Remember this golden lie?



Barack Obama "Public Will Have 5 Days To Look At Every Bill That Lands On My Desk" - YouTube

That was all a lie. Remember the C-SPAN - this lie happened multiple times...




There's nothing the Obama Administration does in the sunlight. Why would altering press reports be a surprise?

Well, with all that Intimidation to not report bad news or puts BO and his team in a Bad light left the MS Media losing credibility..... so it is changing up with BO's last 2 years. He is about to find out just what the MS Media is going to do to him for messing with them all this time.

Not even the left of the MS Media will put up with him and his people outright lying to him.

So let BO suffer for his own actions and lies.