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AP-Gate Just Got Worse

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Regardless of the left's opinion of Fox News, the Obama administration has gone way over the constitutional line and this is adds to the serious threat to freedom of the press. The idea that the government. on its unconstrained wild hunt for whistle blowers, can issue secret subpoenas for telephone records just got worse this morning. The case is being made against Fox News reporter James Rosen for his reporting on the possibility that North Korea would respond to additional UN sanctions with more nuclear tests back in 2009. The Department of Justice is prosecuting State Department adviser and arms expert Stephen Jin-Woo Kim for "leaking" the information to James Rosen of Fox News. To makes the case against Rosen this is what the DOJ did:

They used security badge access records to track the reporter's comings and goings from the State Department, according to a newly obtained court affidavit. They traced the timing of his calls with a State Department security adviser suspected of sharing the classified report. They obtained a search warrant for the reporter's personal e-mails. [..]

Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist - and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010. The case also raises new concerns among critics of government secrecy about the possible stifling effect of these investigations on a critical element of press freedom: the exchange of information between reporters and their sources.

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Sunday May 19, 2013: Up with Steve Kornacki Tweets

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Today we are talking about the scandals again. I was getting kind of annoyed that there was a long talk about Obama's pol numbers not going down and how silly all the scandals are as if the AP scandal was small. BS. There was also a talk about Bangladesh worker safety, workers, regulations, and wage which was good. I am not a fan of Karl Smith's neoliberal claptrap though and that comes off now on #Uppers.

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Saturday May 18, 2013: Up with Steve Kornacki Tweets

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Today's #Uppers was on the 3 scandals that the Obama administration is dealing with right now via the IRS, Benghazi, and the one that matters, the AP scandal where the DOJ ignored post Watergate regulations in seizing their phone records because of a leak they knew was going to be released. This problem with overzealousness over leaks from this administration has implications for everyone given what has happened to Bradley Manning and more whistle blowers than any other administration, especially one claiming to be the most transparent ever.

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Sunday March 12, 2013: Up With Steve Kornacki Tweets

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Today was about gun control, NRA, marriage equality, and state laws with regards to all of that as red states try to nullify what gun control is left. Today's was a Mother's Day #Uppers.

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Saturday May 11, 2013: Up with Steve Kornacki

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The issues discussed today were the death penalty, Innocence project, austerity, Social Security, and taxes. Much better than last week. It was issues based instead of Congress baseball card talk. #Uppers was pretty good today.

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Sunday May 5, 2013: Up with Steve Kornacki Tweets

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Hello. Today's #Uppers was also pretty disappointing. You get the feeling Steve Kornacki still thinks this is 2008 and elections have hope. But we don't have a functioning legislature and it's either going to be about filibuster reform or nothing. Not the baseball card stats of 2014 and specifically not 2016 which always pisses me off talking about it because it's so sensational. It was also about the Syrian civil war and that Israeli bombing in Syria, and for some reason Anthony Weiner.

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Saturday May 4, 2013: Up with Steve Kornacki Tweets

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Today was about gun control and the power of the presidency and a lot of BS about how Obama is the knight in shining armor held down by the evil opposing army in the Senate. Pretending that any mention of the bully pulpit or real legislative history is having liberal fantasies like on the West Wing. Same crap I have debunked forever. I am going to be a thorn in Steve Kornacki's side if this keeps up. Also there was marriage equality and Jason Collins coming out in the NBA.

Now #Uppers.

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Obama Appoints Fox to Guard the Hen House

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Sanders Raises Questions on FCC Nominee

May 1, 2013

BURLINGTON, Vt., May 1 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today issued the following statement after President Barack Obama nominated telecommunications industry lobbyist Tom Wheeler to head the Federal Communications Commission:

“The appointment of a chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is a matter of enormous consequence. Before the Senate votes on Mr. Wheeler’s confirmation, the American people deserve to know where he stands on one of the most important issues facing our nation: the fact that more and more of our media are owned and controlled by fewer and fewer multi-national media conglomerates. Will Mr. Wheeler support that dangerous trend or will he oppose it?

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Sunday April 28, 2013: Up With Steve Kornacki Tweets

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Today's stopics were comprehension immigration reform, The SEC, money in politics, voting rights, Voter ID laws, and North Carolina politics. But most importantly, for me, Alexis Goldstein is back on #Uppers.

People loved the shit out of this one.

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