Liberal columnist: ‘Obama administration mistakes journalism for espionage’

 

Liberal columnist Eugene Robinson has a piece from yesterday that is critical of the Obama administration:

The Obama administration has no business rummaging through journalists’ phone records, perusing their e-mails and tracking their movements in an attempt to keep them from gathering news. This heavy-handed business isn’t chilling, it’s just plain cold.

It also may well be unconstitutional. In my reading, the First Amendment prohibition against “abridging the freedom . . . of the press” should rule out secretly obtaining two months’ worth of the personal and professional phone records of Associated Press reporters and editors, including calls to and from the main AP phone number at the House press gallery in the Capitol. Yet this is what the Justice Department did.

The unwarranted snooping, which was revealed last week, would be troubling enough if it were an isolated incident. But it is part of a pattern that threatens to redefine investigative reporting as criminal behavior.

 

“Rich, middle-aged men and Chick-fil-A lovers”

This is a tweet from the Washington Post shortly after the whistle-blower hearings on Benghazi started today:

Who's tweeting about Benghazi? Rich, middle-aged men and Chick-fil-A lovers http://t.co/voXoD4lsWY

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 8, 2013

 

So, rich, middle-aged men and Chick-fil-A lovers are the only people who care that 4 Americans died?

Keep up the great work, Washington Post!  Don’t know what we would do without all of the “objective” “news” organizations like you.