Blogs May 13, 2013 at 2:13 pm

Our Creepy Government Secretly Obtained AP Reporters' Phone Records

Paul Constant
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Well, Bloomburg will feel right at home as the President with this kind of fuckery going on. And what makes you think this is an "eminently avoidable scandal"? At one point do you admit this kind of think reflects explicitly policy, not just a fuck up?

Once is bad luck. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
Westside forever on May 13, 2013 at 2:28 PM Report this
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Oh come on, next thing someone will admit we take all your emails, FB posts, FB messages (yes the private ones), Tweets, local phone calls, suck them up into a some device and spit them over to another country to process them into secret databases you're not allowed to know about.

Like the listening shack you didn't know about in Yakima that we just closed down.

But hey, it's not like we're listening to you, right?
Will in Seattle on May 13, 2013 at 2:39 PM Report this
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The government has been doing this to all us "little guys" for years now. It's funny how the AP only has a problem with it now.
Fifty-Two-Eighty on May 13, 2013 at 2:48 PM Report this
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The Benghazi scandal isn't is a real scandal one way or another. The IRS isn't a scandal either because it was a local phenomenon. Neither of these were "easily avoidable" because one wasn't a scandal to begin the with and the other wasn't under the purview of the administration. What you have here is maybe one political scandal (it will no doubt be politicized), that technically isn't even illegal. So sure, we can be pissed off about this,but it's just the government being invasive as usual. What we have here is a second-term scandal narrative that people have been itching for, a second-term thing for the press and partisans to fixate on. I'm sure Glenn Greenwald will have steam coming out of his ears.
on May 13, 2013 at 3:13 PM Report this
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And Right-Wing Nut Cases come to the defense of the "liberal media" in...3...2...1...
COMTE on May 13, 2013 at 3:36 PM Report this
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#5: Issa is already running with it (already has a statement and everything to aid his witch hunt. Given the apparent effectiveness of this scandal narrative, it's only a matter of time before we have progressives crossing the aisle to call for impeachment. This is where US political culture is now. Outrage machine.
on May 13, 2013 at 3:41 PM Report this
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"They're committing shitty Bush-Administration-style acts like this."

No shit Sherlock, too bad you have been parroting the party line for 6+ years.
Cascadian Bacon on May 13, 2013 at 3:42 PM Report this
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Choosy spooks choose Lynnwood over fucking Yakima.
rob! on May 13, 2013 at 3:45 PM Report this
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Oh, but if you complain you might lose access. Probably best just to report it and let it drop.
fletc3her on May 13, 2013 at 3:55 PM Report this
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@1++. Answer the question, Paul: at what point will you admit that this is not some kind of fuckup, but *policy*?
Ancient Sumerian on May 13, 2013 at 5:42 PM Report this
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Secret spying operations?

If that ever got exposed someone could be sued or fired.

Supreme Ruler Of The Universe on May 13, 2013 at 6:35 PM Report this
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Is it illegal?
sirkowski on May 13, 2013 at 7:11 PM Report this
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@12: Is it ethical? Does it generally contribute to the benefit or to the detriment of the people who are forced to pay for it? Does it sound more like the actions of a democratically-elected government r like those of a dictatorial regime?
Phil M on May 13, 2013 at 11:54 PM Report this
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Hearing this as well as the blurb about the IRS specifically harassing the Teabaggers, has made me shout, "Oh, come on, Obama! Jesus, man!" at my car radio far more of late than I should have in such a short amount of time.
Knat on May 14, 2013 at 1:38 AM Report this
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If the AP leaked classified info, what's wrong with DOJ investigating the matter? How is this a scandal?
Patricia Kayden on May 14, 2013 at 9:38 AM Report this
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I've always considered Obama to be trying very hard to be Clinton 2.0 and I've always considered Clinton to be the greatest Republican president of the 20th century, except the Republicans are too stupid to figure it out.

NAFTA, GATT, MFN for China, repeal of Glass-Steagall, Robert Rubin as Treasury Secretary, etc.

Clinton threw a lollypop right over the plate and the Republicans hit it out of the park, screwing every working man in America along the way.
CPN on May 14, 2013 at 9:47 AM Report this
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@15- In order to get a warrant for a search, you're supposed to show probable cause. In this case the government clearly just went fishing, which is unconstitutional. That's the big deal.
dwightmoodyforgetsthings on May 14, 2013 at 11:57 AM Report this
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@13 So it's not illegal.
sirkowski on May 14, 2013 at 10:54 PM Report this

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