Let' forget about the freedoms we have and turn them all over the all-knowing, all-seeing, totally impartial White House. They will dole out what we need to know, when we need to know it. If we don't get the information, we did not need it, right? Anyone who argues with the White House must be a terrorist and should be locked away in Gitmo. Citizens can be picked up on the street and held for years without charge or trial, to protect the rest of us. Citizens don't need guns, the Administration will protect you. This is the view of the White House, it appears.
Seizing reporter records, using the IRS as a political weapon, covering up mistakes are all tools in the White House toolkit. They use it every day. And every day there are more stories about how the Administration has abused us as their employers. It is starting to get very nauseating. Do you feel the same?
Conservative Tom
Justice Seized White House, Fox Phone Records
Wednesday, 22 May 2013 06:17 AM
The disclosure came in a document filed in the case of the former contractor, Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, on October 13, 2011, The New Yorker reported today.
Kim is a former State Department contractor accused of violating the Espionage Act for allegedly leaking classified information to Rosen.
Ronald C. Machen Jr., the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia who is prosecuting the case, seized records associated with at least five telephone numbers associated with Fox, two numbers at the White House, and one that has the same area code and exchange as Rosen’s personal cellphone number.
The last four digits of that telephone number are redacted in the document, the New Yorker reports.
In all, Machen had seized records associated with more than 30 different phone numbers, according to the filing.
The last four digits of each telephone line targeted by the Obama Administration are redacted in the filing. Two of the numbers begin with area code 202 and the exchange 456, which, according to current and former Obama administration officials, are used exclusively by the White House.
The telephone number of the White House switchboard is (202) 456-1414.
At least five other numbers targeted by Justice include the area code 202 and the exchange 824.
The phone number for the Fox News Washington bureau, which is publicly available, is (202) 824-0001, the New Yorker reports.
Rosen’s work number at Fox begins with the same area code and exchange.
“Because that information is sealed, I can’t confirm the owner or subscriber for any of those records,” William Miller, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C., told the New Yorker.
Asked if the phone numbers of any reporters had been targeted in the Kim investigation, Miller told the magazine that he could not comment.
The Washington Post reported on Monday that Justice seized telephone records and emails from Rosen personal account on Gmail in its inquiry of Kim.
In the search warrant for the data, Justice described Rosen as “an aider, and abettor, and/or co-conspirator” in violating the Espionage Act, noting that the crime was punishable by 10 years in prison.
Rosen was not indicted in the case, but the suggestion in a government document that a reporter could be guilty of espionage for engaging in routine reporting is unprecedented — the New Yorker reports — and has alarmed many journalists and civil libertarians.
The case also has been cited in Justice’s recent secret seizure of two months of telephone records of reporters and editors at The Associated Press.
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Anybody who calls this "routine reporting" hasn't read the FBI affidavit. Please stop mirroring everything on Newsmax and read affidavit for yourself, Tom. The information leaked to Rosen was top secret national defense information classified TS/SCI. In order to read this information, Kim has to go to a special computer and see a banner that listed the criminal penalties for unauthorized disclosure as well as a statement that acknowledges that all users of the computer have no expectation of privacy.
--David