UPDATED WaPo: DOJ Spied On Fox News Reporter

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74. I read it and Greenwalds recitation of the facts backs post 59

1) The investigation was not focusing on the reporter but on a state department leaker

2) The 'investigation' involved tracing back movement by the reporter in the State Department

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3) Getting a warrant for 2 days of emails and all emails to Kim.

Now here is where Greenwald famously goes off the tracks, as he almost always does.

He characterizes the leaks as being nothing more than normal chit chat:

Kim did not obtain unauthorized access to classified information, nor steal documents, nor sell secrets, nor pass them to an enemy of the US. Instead, the DOJ alleges that he merely communicated this innocuous information to a journalist - something done every day in Washington

So you might want to read the links that Greenwald incorporates because they completely contradict his characterization. Here is what HIS linked source said was the offending reporting:

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.

The other three actions include the reprocessing of all of the North's spent plutonium fuel rods into weapons-grade plutonium; a major escalation in the North's uranium-enrichment program; and the launching of another Taepodong-2 intercontinental ballistic missile from the Yunsong military complex on the west coast of North Korea. The North last launched a Taepodong-2 on April 5; it conducted its second nuclear test in the last three years on Memorial Day.

The intelligence community only learned of North Korea's plans this week, prompting CIA to alert senior officials. Asked who would be briefed on this kind of data, a source told FOX News: "The top people: POTUS, DNI." "POTUS" is acronym for the president of the United States; "DNI" refers to the director of the Office of National Intelligence.


Read more: http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/node/1419#ixzz2TqoXkI1B

So it was not, as Greenwald says, everyday non classified material, but highly sensitive material that also discloses that the source of the information came from a source within North Korea, which, obviously, is something that is highly sensitive and very likely to have terrible consequences for the source and future attempts by the US to get good information.

As usual Greenwald cherry picks his points.