Republicans are going crazy over the fact that Holder signed off on the warrant for Rosen's emails

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41. They named him as a possible co-conspirator and target of the investigation,

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based solely on behaviors that investigative journalists engage in, by definition, every single day. They had no excuse whatsoever to target him in this way. They used the normal behavior of journalism and redefined it as something potentially criminal, in order to surveil a JOURNALIST.

If you defend this, you defend the targeting and surveillance of ANY investigative journalist. But that, of course, is the point. This administration is surveilling the public, they are surveilling protesters, they are targeting whistleblowers, they are waging legal war against the whistleblower protections of hundreds of thousands of federal workers, and now they are redefining investigative journalism as a criminal or "potentially criminal/worthy of surveillance" activity. This is how authoritarian systems protect themselves. They put the chill into anyone who might speak or write openly about ongoing abuses.

Now, ProSense, as you always seek the last word, you go ahead and have at it with the predictable commercials, obfuscations, and non-sequiturs. Of course you will defend a new interpretation of the law to defend targeting and surveillance by our government of journalists engaged in routine activities. You shamefully defend *everything* this corporate and increasingly authoritarian administration does, no matter how malignantly destructive to the democratic foundations of our country it may be.