Monday, May 13, 2013

Watergate Was For Amateurs: Justice Department Spied For Months On Associated Press Reporters

The most transparent presidency in History?  The media, and a herd of sheep bought that lie, I sure as hell didn't.


FROM ZERO HEDGE:


And so the final curtain falls on the myth of what was supposed to be, in its own words, the "most transparent administration" in history.
As it turns out, the big Friday story of Bloomberg journalists snooping on its clients was just amateur hour compared to what the AP was about to serve. In fact, the Watergate affair may soon appear like a walk in the park compared to the First Amendment shitstorm that is about to be unleashed following the just reported news that the US Department of Justice had "secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news."
First amendment? Freedom of speech and press? Surely not when it comes to the Nobel-peace prize winning President and those who dare to expose his secret ways.
And what's worst, is that the AP breach has all the makings of of a spiteful hack driven by personal vengeance against one of America's premier news outlets.

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