If I were a reporter....

[kathyp]

and I'd been anywhere near this WH, i'd be wondering about my phones and emails.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-rare-peek-into-a-justice-department-leak-probe/2013/05/19/0bc473de-be5e-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html

i can think of two, one from CBS and another who was with ABC, who are probably wondering how much of their info was tapped.

all of this might make you wonder about the taps that "inadvertently" caught Patraeus and Allen.  we have been told that the former was not in favor of the way the Benghazi attack was being written up.  knowledge is power, isn't it?  they knew about the affair long before it leaked.  did they use it to keep him silent until after the election, then use it to get rid of him?

looks like we have put our very own Hugo in office....and here we thought the power of our government was restrained by the constitution.  silly us! 

[Fox Creek]

    Just learned this. Obama's  DOJ has been tracking Fox reporter James Rosen. Subpoenas of personal emails and all the other things we once thought were private. A free press? Don't count on it!

[sterling]

I would like these moderates and liberals to come on here and explain why this is OK. Because I can't understand why it is OK. You know those Obama loving blues and luvins surely have an answer.

[kathyp]

it's not just that they got the subpena for his personal stuff, it's how they got it.  they convinced the judge that he was suspected of criminal activity even though that's not what they were investigating. 

[Fox Creek]

it's not just that they got the subpena for his personal stuff, it's how they got it.  they convinced the judge that he was suspected of criminal activity even though that's not what they were investigating. 

    Yes. The judge was misled in order to get the warrant desired. The FBI I know would never do this. Under Obama....? If I had committed this injustice as a deputy sheriff, I would be in BIG trouble.

[kingbee]

...
The FBI I know would never do this. 

Oh, Come on.  LBJ did the same thing to Nixon in the 1968 Presidential campaign.  Johnson just could not make the information his DOJ gleaned public without Nixon knowing how he got it.  (Illegal FBI Wire Taps)

FDR was as fond of sicking the IRS and FBI on his enemies as Obama is now.
That is the whole reason that President after President keep Jules Edgar Hoover on as the FBI Director decades after any other Bureaucrat would have been forced to retire because of age. 

Hoover was just a weaseling little rat but regardless of which political party was in power, he was who ever was in the Oval Office's weaseling little rat, and when you are the President it is good to keep weaseling little rats like Hoover where you can either control or keep your eye on them.  Men like Hoover, Himmler, and Beria are priceless to an ethically challenged politicians like the one that we now have in the Oval Office. 

[Fox Creek]

    Oh, come on....I didn't know those guys!     

[kathyp]

hoover was the spider for sure, but he did a lot of good work too.  also important to remember that most of what he did was not illegal at the time.  it was panicked pols who wanted the laws changed after him.  they didn't want to worry about dirt files