CONFIRMED: Fox News Hack James Rosen Is A Political Operative, Not A Journalist

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The First Amendment holds a place of unique reverence in the hearts of Americans. Rather than focusing on a single issue, its authors packed it with critical constraints on the federal government that encompass rights pertaining to speech, association, religion, and the press. It is a mouthful of freedom that justifiably deserves special attention. However, like everything in the Constitution, it is not absolute and it requires interpretation to be understood and implemented.

With regard to recent events concerning Fox News, and its alleged reporter James Rosen, the question as to whether there was a violation of the First Amendment’s freedom of the press has roiled the media and spurred condemnation from across the political spectrum. However, no matter what one thinks about the propriety of a government agency examining the phone records of a purported journalist, James Rosen does not deserve to regarded as one.

In the government’s affidavit supporting their request for a search warrant, a passage in the document reveals that Rosen had stepped far outside the boundaries of journalism. His activities were those of a political operative with a specific agenda that was openly hostile to the official foreign policy of the United States. And Rosen pursued that agenda with an intent to obtain classified materials that he knew was impermissible for him to possess.




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DOJ Document Reveals Fox News Reporter James Rosen Wanted To Impact U.S. Foreign Policy - Mediaite

Ever since a Monday Washington Post article revealed that the Department of Justice investigation into a national security leak included searches of Fox News reporter James Rosen‘s email and phone records, the media has been focused on fluffing up comparisons of that case with the unfolding Associated Press leak investigation. Lost amid the hype and hysteria over the searches was the actual content of the emails between Rosen and his alleged source, then-State Department contractor Stephen Jin-Woo Kim. In those emails, now confirmed to be from Rosen, the Fox News Reporter reveals his noble intentions for seeking secret information from Kim.

The Justice Department investigation stems from an alleged leak that appeared in this 2009 Fox News article by James Rosen:

U.S. intelligence officials have warned President Obama and other senior American officials that North Korea intends to respond to the passage of a U.N. Security Council resolution this week — condemning the communist country for its recent nuclear and ballistic missile tests — with another nuclear test, FOX News has learned.

What’s more, Pyongyang’s next nuclear detonation is but one of four planned actions the Central Intelligence Agency has learned, through sources inside North Korea, that the regime of Kim Jong-Il intends to take — but not announce — once the Security Council resolution is officially passed, likely on Friday.

Ordinarily, Fox News would be among the first people to tell you that we don’t tip off our enemies that we have sources deep within their governments. In fact, James Rosen would be the first to tell you that, in the same article:

FOX News is withholding some details about the sources and methods by which American intelligence agencies learned of the North’s plans so as to avoid compromising sensitive overseas operations in a country — North Korea — U.S. spymasters regard as one of the world’s most difficult to penetrate.

Read more: http://www.mediaite.com/columnists/doj-document-reveals-fox-news-reporter-james-rosen-wanted-to-impact-u-s-foreign-policy/

[hrmjustin]

1. K and R!

[BlueCaliDem]

2. K & R!

I never doubted that Rosen was a political hack in journalist's clothing. But this takes away any doubt.

[GermanSmoker]

3. Against the US Government(Doesn't matter which party is in power) everything should be done.

I support every leak, espionage and "crime" against the military industrial complex and his minions in the government. That's why i support Wikileaks, the outing of Fox News of the Navy Seal who wrote "No Easy Day" and distribute the blueprints of the 3d gun the US State Department wants to stop.

I even wrote an email to the White House to put me on the No Fly List and ban me for life to enter the USA.

Everybody that supports Obama's "War on Journalism" is on the same level like the people who killed Kennedy.

JFK wanted to warn the people about this conspiracy against the american people. And that's why he was killed.

"President John F. Kennedy was well aware that a “Secret” government existed as far back as 1961. As you listen to this speech he even says that there is a “Vast monolithic and ruthless conspiracy” waiting to take America over that includes the military, intelligence agencies and a trojan horse government in hiding. He then asks members of the press which he was addressing that day to inform the American people of this conspiracy."

[grasswire]

4. uh.................. nt

[dorkzilla]

5. I second your "uh"....

Ah-ha.

[Little_Wing]

6. Get out much? nt

[Nanjing to Seoul]

8. Something about bats and a bellfry have enter my mind about this post

[7962]

9. I think you've been on the "Infowars" site one too many times

I suppose this same secret government groomed Obama, from birth, to one day be able to fool enough people to become president? While sneaking him in from Kenya?
Jeeze.

[maidensandiego]

19. And to 7962...I agree w/you. InfoWONT'S

And you know what. There are really some ASSININE people in this world that would actually BELEIVE what you just wrote in your reply ! lol Alex Jones & Sarah Palin types. With an IQ all of TWO ! They need to refrain from frying their BRAINS. And learn something for a change ! I'm convinced that even our Pre-K age children are more intelligent then these folks. On the REAL...I mean that.

[Skittles]

12. what exactly are you smoking?

[demwing]

20. Germans, apparently

but not the ones that make you laugh at everything. He's only smoking the Germans that make you think the police are at the door every 5 minutes...

[brett_jv]

27. I believe the word you're looking for might be 'Shermans'

Not sure though, the lingo may've changed since I was younger

[maidensandiego]

16. Unfortunately ! THIS !....is not a GOOD READ !

Its people just LIKE YOU.... GermanSmoker ! Who are doing the damage to our Reputation and Credibility in this world. Never do folks like you wanna take the blame for your Ignorance. You absolutley DO NOT care...but act as if you do. Gimme a Break. Our next Generation will have so much sh#t to clean up...that Obama's been DENIED the chance to do. What's he suppose to do ? Babysit every damn Grown Person who should freakin NO BETTER ! Still harping on things that happened at a time that most of us probabaly werent even BORN yet. JFK Conspiracy..that's OLD NEWS. Wikileaks...that's OLD NEWS ! Got Damn Dude ! Do you "Infowar" & "Conspiracy Theorist".... ever give this sh#! a REST !

[noiretextatique]

24. Fox News Hack James Rosen Is A Political Operative, Not A Journalist ERGO

there is no "war on jouralism," at least not in this case.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

7. Still looking for the "confirmed" part.

newscorpse.com? Doesn't sound sound.

[7962]

10. Wow, I didnt notice that till you pointed it out! NT

[R Merm]

11. The affidavit is a Washington Post site

http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/local/affidavit-for-search-warrant/162/

[SleeplessinSoCal]

13. I appreciate the link. Now if anybody finds the report on a site other than newcorpse,

I/we can begin spreading the news.

[Little Star]

14. k&r

[Laelth]

15. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[ZRT2209]

17. this is a must-read - read the full affidavit - Rosen is NO journalist

he pretty much spelled out his intent was to fuck over Obama

Not. A. Journalist.

[ZRT2209]

18. Rosen pretty much spelled out his intent was to fuck over Obama

[davidpdx]

28. It's funny how the people in denial on DU have yet to realize this

They still think "Obama bad". It's that ODS that's spreading. They are outright trolls that believe everything Alex Jones tells them to.

BTW you responded to your own post. Just to let you know you could have edited your own post to add something. It makes a thread easier to read for everyone.

Welcome to DU!

[alfredo]

38. He was doing opposition research for the GOP.

[cynzke]

21. Going To Put A Big Damper

On Foxes claim that Fox/Rosen is being harassed. No, it looks like a criminal investigation.

[merrily]

22. Depends upon how you define "journalist" and "operative."

[SunSeeker]

23. K & R

[xtraxritical]

25. He should be prosecuted for espionage. Oh, Holder...right.

[limpyhobbler]

26. This is garbage. This is a false distinction.

Every reporter is a political operative if they are trying to expose the government's secrets.

[brush]

30. But are reporters on firm ground when . . .

. . . their activities (and some consider what Rosen did illegal) expose undercover operatives, disrupt an entire intelligence operation and put lives of many people in a foreign country in danger who worked with said operative?

"What I'm interested in, as you might expect, is breaking news ahead of my competitors." These are his words in an email trying to obtain internal State Dept. documents.

He did this to "scoop" other reporters. But journalists know where the line is and whether to cross it. He crossed it willing and eagerly to break the news ahead of his competitors. What he revealed wasn't "news" it was, as I said earlier, the cover of an undercover operative.

So this so-called scandal the repugs are grunting and snorting and reveling in is really about a rogue reporter who pulled a Dick Cheney/Scooter Libby.

[limpyhobbler]

31. Oh really?

Who considers what Rosen did illegal?

[brush]

32. Maybe you don't, but if . . .

. . . you blow the cover of a undercover operative, I'd say that was illegal, maybe even bordering on the "T" word. Why do you think many people were calling for Chaney's head when he and Libby blew Valerie Plame's cover? Yeah, really. There's a line not to cross when you're journalist. It's not Watergate where reporters uncovered a two bit burglary meant to help a crooked president get re-elected. This little operation of Rosen's put many lives in danger, all for a "scoop" ahead of competitors.

[limpyhobbler]

33. Rosen did not put any lives in danger. Nobody has claimed that.

[brush]

34. You need to read up on the story before you comment.

MSM doesn't do it's job anymore. Gotta get your news from other sources.

[limpyhobbler]

35. Who has claimed James Rosen put lives at risk?

[SlimJimmy]

39. Not a single person. Even the affidavit fails to mention it. Ask for a link;

that should put the issue to rest.

[SlimJimmy]

40. Link please. (nt)

[The Wizard]

29. Pox News is the Radical Extremist

propaganda outlet for the Republican Party and as such is disqualified from the First Amendment free press protections. Their mission is to destroy one political party and promote another, a far cry from journalism. Doing a 24/7 Republican campaign ad has never been considered journalism, nor should it be. Pox and the radical extremists it supports are anti American and have worked in the past to overthrow a duly elected Democratic president, Bill Clinton, and they're doing it again.
May I suggest water boarding the whole lot of them. After all, water boarding isn't torture according to Pox Propaganda Network.

[Cha]

36. Kickin!

[alfredo]

37. Just confirming you have knowledge is a breach of security. We don't want our

targets to know we know what they are doing.