Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Obama Adm. Attacks Freedom of the Press with Wiretapping, More

I know this gif is annoying,
but so is the issue.

Yet another attack on the Constitutional right of expression. Some say it smacks of Watergate, comparing Obama to Nixon. It appears the administration is pressuring and monitoring certain AP journalists in an effort to suppress information and the public's "right to know."


From Huffington Post:

"The Obama administration woke up on Tuesday to another morning of scorching criticism about the Justice Department's decision to secretly obtain months of Associated Press phone records.

"The DOJ tracked the incoming and outgoing calls on more than 20 AP phone lines, as well as the home, office and cell phone lines for six individual journalists involved in writing a national security-related story about Yemen that the Obama administration did not want them to write..."
Read the entire Huffington Post article (and watch their video) here.

For the record: I stand against the suppression of information and support the public's "right to know."

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