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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP Rep Claims Responsibility For AP Surveillance
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/16/no-choice-gop-congressman-cites-national-security-defends-doj-investigation-of-ap-video/Just when you thought another event was about to be added to the growing list of Obama scandals what with the Benghazi cover-up (debunked by a single e-mail), the IRS surveillance of Tea Party-supporting groups (which flame-throwers like Allen West attempted to conflate into conspiracies with no success), and the continuing heat on the military for its policies on sexual abuse the Department of Justice investigation of Associated Press telephone records, widely expected to be another partisan blowtorch, has just been defended by a Republican congressman who claims it was the Republicans themselves who demanded the investigation last year.
Representative Trey Gowdy (R-SC) spoke to Fox News Greta Van Susteren about the issue, one libertarians, journalists, and freedom of information advocates all believe demands review and reform, and instead of using it to bludgeon the administration for overstepping (which most of his party, the media, and even the Presidents own party are doing), he instead claimed it was the natural evolution of a GOP demand for a probe. From Think Progress:
Greta, you were an attorney. There are lots of privileges husband-wife, priest-penitent, attorney-client, none of them unqualified. So when you have a major national security leak, which is a compelling issue, and you juxtapose that with the right of the media to do its job and provide oversight, theres a conflict. And theres no federal statute on point. But the Supreme Court has said if there is a compelling interest, which there certainly is in national security cases, and the information is relevant which it has to be to justify a subpoena, and you have no alternative means of getting the information, then the Department of Justice had no choice. . . .
Think back a year ago. We had the attorney general and other Department of Justice employees, and we grilled them over national security leaks. And here they are doing what we asked them to do, investigate the leak.
Representative Trey Gowdy (R-SC) spoke to Fox News Greta Van Susteren about the issue, one libertarians, journalists, and freedom of information advocates all believe demands review and reform, and instead of using it to bludgeon the administration for overstepping (which most of his party, the media, and even the Presidents own party are doing), he instead claimed it was the natural evolution of a GOP demand for a probe. From Think Progress:
Greta, you were an attorney. There are lots of privileges husband-wife, priest-penitent, attorney-client, none of them unqualified. So when you have a major national security leak, which is a compelling issue, and you juxtapose that with the right of the media to do its job and provide oversight, theres a conflict. And theres no federal statute on point. But the Supreme Court has said if there is a compelling interest, which there certainly is in national security cases, and the information is relevant which it has to be to justify a subpoena, and you have no alternative means of getting the information, then the Department of Justice had no choice. . . .
Think back a year ago. We had the attorney general and other Department of Justice employees, and we grilled them over national security leaks. And here they are doing what we asked them to do, investigate the leak.
Tinfoil hats off, please.
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GOP Rep Claims Responsibility For AP Surveillance (Original Post)
KamaAina
May 2013
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sigmasix
(794 posts)1. truth burns the eyes of liars
I thought I remembered the GOP demanding this investigation of national security leaks. Why has corporate media refused to report this bit of embarassing truth?
Blue_Roses
(12,894 posts)2. make it stop and let me off
my head is spinning from this merry-go-round...and the circus clowns are making it worse.
Cha
(296,875 posts)3. thanks KamaAina