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Showing Original Post only (View all)UPDATED WaPo: DOJ Spied On Fox News Reporter [View all]
Last edited Mon May 20, 2013, 11:02 AM - Edit history (1)
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TOM KLUDT 8:17 AM EDT, MONDAY MAY 20, 2013
In its 2009 investigation of a leak related to North Korea, the Department of Justice spied extensively on Fox News Channel's chief Washington correspondent James Rosen, according to a report published in the Washington Post.
Using security badge access, the DOJ tracked Rosen's comings and goings from the State Department, according to WaPo. Moreover, the DOJ traced the timing of Rosen's phone calls with a State Department security adviser and obtained a search warrant to access his personal emails.
Read WaPo's entire report here.
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UPDATE:
Fox News Reporter May Face Criminal Charges for Reporting on the CIA
PHILIP BUMP 9:33 AM ET
The government will use any and all information at its disposal to find journalist sources, as shown in The Washington Post's report this morning on a Department of Justice investigation into Fox News chief correspondent James Rosen, who may face criminal charges for reporting government secrets.
In June 2009, Rosen reported on CIA analysis suggesting that North Korea might respond to new UN sanctions with renewed nuclear tests. In order to determine how Rosen learned of the analysis, which had been issued by the CIA only a few hours prior, FBI investigators used every tool at their disposal: analyzing Rosen's security access card to determine when he entered and left the State Department building, studying his phone records, and subpoenaing his personal email.
Ultimately, agents determined the source of the leak was likely the State Department's Stephen Jin-Woo Kim. Rosen and Kim established a high-tech version of the red-flag-in-a-planter system used by Bob Woodward during Watergate: when Kim wanted to meet, he would allegedly send an email to Rosen's Gmail account containing an asterisk. Rosen detailed the sorts of things he wanted to discuss.
He also wrote, according to the affidavit: What I am interested in, as you might expect, is breaking news ahead of my competitors including what intelligence is picking up. And: Id love to see some internal State Department analyses.
According to the Post report, that's what Kim allegedly provided. And the way in which he did so appears to have been indiscreet. Their federally distributed security passes showed that Rosen and Kim left and returned to a building at the same time on the day of the leak. Kim's department phone records showed a number of calls between him and Rosen. When you work directly for Big Brother, you're likely to be caught.
Full article:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/05/fox-news-reporter-james-rosen-may-face-criminal-charges-reporting-cia/65393/
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You do realize that Fox "News" supported this kind of activity during the Bush administration.
W T F
May 2013
#50
Fox has defended lawsuits where they were sued for reporting false info with the claim that they are
okaawhatever
May 2013
#113
Justice Department officals went to a Federal magistrate and obtained a search warrant
Cali_Democrat
May 2013
#136
are we talking about Freedom of the Press, or freedom to disseminate false information?
olddad56
May 2013
#80
Not only that, there wasn't any wiretapping. They used badge logs and narrowed it down from 95
okaawhatever
May 2013
#112
You do realize this information was available Nov 2011 and was only reported today. A little bit
okaawhatever
May 2013
#110
Justice Department officals went to a Federal magistrate and otained a search warrant
Cali_Democrat
May 2013
#137
"AP Leak ended informant's rare opportunity, why DOJ went after AP records"
emulatorloo
May 2013
#108
When someone is stupid enough to use Government phones and email they deserve scrutiny.
gordianot
May 2013
#16
So can a reporter or leaker never do any harm and always be immune from the law?
CJCRANE
May 2013
#35
Fair enough. But reporters can ruin their careers if they report false information. nt
CJCRANE
May 2013
#72
I don't mean to be rude to WAPO, but reviewing government records is NOT "spying."
MADem
May 2013
#49
Looks less like spying on FOX and more like spying on the CIA. People get killed from leaks.
freshwest
May 2013
#119
According to doj yes. One problem is there aren't good laws right now. Most go back to the Espionage
okaawhatever
May 2013
#114
If a reporter is passing national security secrets to a foreign country, how should it be handled...
WhoWoodaKnew
May 2013
#102
Why this reporter? Because he was the one that received classified information from Kim
Cali_Democrat
May 2013
#138
If the intelligence concerns events in the past, I see little problem with news media
JDPriestly
May 2013
#120