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Government Intrusion Into Journalism ‘Unconstitutional’

[Mark Lennihan/The Associated Press]
The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government’s secret seizure of two months of reporters’ phone records “unconstitutional” and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal action against the Justice Department» Read On →

Justice Department Spied on Journalist

The Obama administration has pursued more such cases than all previous administrations combined, including one against a former CIA official charged with leaking U.S. intelligence on Iran and another against a former FBI contract linguist who pleaded guilty to leaking to a blogger

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  • Ann E. Marimow
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The Obama Administration’s History of Targeting The Press

The White House had just been freshly stung by news that the Department of Justice had secretly raided the phone records of up to 100 Associated Press reporters, looking to identify the news organization’s private sources

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  • Jeff Poor and Vince Coglianese
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Scandals Far Greater Than Watergate Grip The Capital

The most recent scandal to grip the Obama administration came Monday evening, when The Associated Press disclosed that the Justice Department sought its reporters’ phone records — including those of correspondents who sit in the Capitol

  • May 14, 2013
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  • JAKE SHERMAN and LAUREN FRENCH
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U.S. Government Spies on Journalists

The president of the Associated Press has sent a letter of protest to US Attorney General Eric Holder over the Department of Justice’s broad surveillance of individual reporters’ phone conversations

  • May 13, 2013
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  • RT News
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The Blatant Benghazi Cover-Up

t’s a cliché, of course, but it really is true: in Washington, every scandal has a crime and a coverup. The ongoing debate about the attack on the United States facility in Benghazi where four Americans were killed, and the Obama Administration’s response to it, is no exception

  • May 13, 2013
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  • ALEX KOPPELMAN
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IRS Targeted Groups Opposing Obama Administration

The Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups is outrageous. Those who did this should be fired immediately. That’s obvious.

  • May 13, 2013
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  • Joe Klein
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Global Youth Jobless Crisis Worsens

Elevated and lasting unemployment is an awful thing, anywhere, and for anyone. But it is awful in a special way for young people, cutting them off from networks and starting salaries at the moment they need to forge connections and begin to cobble together a career

  • May 9, 2013
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  • DEREK THOMPSON
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Most College-Age Students Want a Limited, Smaller Government

A recent poll on young people’s views of limited government, free markets, and economic liberty suggests some may be waking up to the conclusion that government, over-regulation, and more spending will not turn our futures around

  • May 9, 2013
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  • Adam Tragone
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Benghazi Witness Gagged by Red Tape

Obama administration officials are finally letting the attorney for a Benghazi whistle-blower get a security clearance — but the clearance is at such a low level that it will probably slow the congressional probe of how the administration handled last year’s terrorist attack on the embassy in Benghazi, Libya

  • May 9, 2013
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  • Neil Munro
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Russia Continues Making Money Off of Syrian Genocide

Israel has warned the United States that Russia plans to sell sophisticated missile systems to Syria that would complicate any foreign intervention there, the Wall Street Journal reported

  • May 9, 2013
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  • AFP
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White House Backs FBI Plan for Surveillance State

The Obama administration, resolving years of internal debate, is on the verge of backing a Federal Bureau of Investigation plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people who communicate using the Internet rather than by traditional phone services, according to officials familiar with the deliberations

  • May 9, 2013
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  • CHARLIE SAVAGE
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This is What Happens When You Report Truth and Work for the Mainstream

The biggest Benghazi-related story that took place outside of the House Oversight Committee’s hearing room today is this item in Politico, regarding CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson

  • May 9, 2013
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  • Guy Benson
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1/3 of Americans Think an Armed Revolution Might be Necessary Soon

Almost a third of registered voters believe their gun rights have been so threatened that an armed revolution could be necessary in the next few years, a poll has found

  • May 5, 2013
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  • DAILY MAIL REPORTER
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State Dept Changed Benghazi Talking Points to Obscure Truth

Even as the White House strove last week to move beyond questions about the Benghazi attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2012, fresh evidence emerged that senior Obama administration officials knowingly misled the country about what had happened in the days following the assaults

  • May 5, 2013
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  • STEPHEN F. HAYES
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