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2006-05-15 Home Front: Politix
ABCNews Freaks: Federal Source to ABC News: We Know Who You're Calling
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Posted by Captain America 2006-05-15 11:56|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 That's what happens when the journalism schools scold their students for taking real science courses instead of "Science for Journalism".
No understanding of how anything really works!

That included MIZZOU and as a dad you know who you lectured - pond scum. An A+ in genetic engr beats your Science for Journalism any day of the fricking week -- morons!
Posted by 3dc 2006-05-15 12:04||   2006-05-15 12:04|| Front Page Top

#2 ABC News does not know how the government determined who we are calling, or whether our phone records were provided to the government as part of the recently-disclosed NSA collection of domestic phone calls.

*sigh*

Other sources have told us that phone calls and contacts by reporters for ABC News, along with the New York Times and the Washington Post, are being examined as part of a widespread CIA leak investigation.

In other words, they were obtained as part of a criminal investigation, with a warrant. But the press has to try to connect the two stories and paint themselves as the free-speech martyrs to the Bushreich.

Under Bush Administration guidelines, it is not considered illegal for the government to keep track of numbers dialed by phone customers.

Actually, it was the Supreme Court that came to that conclusion.

Goddamn, I hate the press.
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2006-05-15 12:06|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-05-15 12:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Booo! who?
Posted by Captain America 2006-05-15 12:08||   2006-05-15 12:08|| Front Page Top

#4 It's all about meeeeee!

/MSM poseurs
Posted by Snineck Hupavins3435 2006-05-15 12:13||   2006-05-15 12:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Gee, darn. We might loose some Islam propaganists Journalists.
Posted by DarthVader 2006-05-15 12:35||   2006-05-15 12:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Presumably the quoted sources plan to find new, non-governmental jobs in the near future. Perhaps as former goverment experts who can be interviewed on-air about how they can't say anything because they signed confidentiality agreements before they left.

However, changing cell phone carriers isn't going to hide who the reporters talked to in the past. It'll just reveal who thinks he is about to be revealed for inappropriate behaviour. How clever -- make the FBI's job easier. The absolute definition of, "So sharp, if he were a knife he'd cut himself!"
Posted by trailing wife 2006-05-15 12:50||   2006-05-15 12:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Just because I'm traitorousparanoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me.
Posted by Xbalanke 2006-05-15 13:30||   2006-05-15 13:30|| Front Page Top

#8 "Hello?"

"Hey, man, it's me! Listen - DON"T ANSWER THE PHONE, even if it's me calling, ok?"

"What?"
-- Cheech & Chong
Posted by mojo">mojo  2006-05-15 13:39||   2006-05-15 13:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Dave?
Posted by Glaper Thaimp4891 2006-05-15 13:43||   2006-05-15 13:43|| Front Page Top

#10  Dave's not here, man.
Posted by Mike N. 2006-05-15 13:45||   2006-05-15 13:45|| Front Page Top

#11 In my country we have this thing called "Caller ID". We can tell who is calling before answering the phone. That information can also be logged by the telephone switch, which is what we do at our 911 center.

I obviously live in a different country than ABC news.
Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins  2006-05-15 13:57|| http://blog.simmins.org]">[http://blog.simmins.org]  2006-05-15 13:57|| Front Page Top

#12 Dude, sounds like you live in Hitler country. I wouldn't want to live there, no way, man. I wanna live where I'm free, and where all the cell minutes are free too.
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2006-05-15 15:00||   2006-05-15 15:00|| Front Page Top

#13 And all this time I thought information wanted to be free.

I guess the cellphone billing records wanted to be free too.
Posted by Phil 2006-05-15 15:06||   2006-05-15 15:06|| Front Page Top

#14 Sounds like they are afraid all those calls to the Iranian Embassy to receive direction and instructions might come to light....
Posted by CrazyFool 2006-05-15 15:22||   2006-05-15 15:22|| Front Page Top

#15 Whoooooooooooosh!
Here mike n. take a hit, ima finally find my bong.
Posted by Halfempty 2006-05-15 16:29||   2006-05-15 16:29|| Front Page Top

#16 Mmmm.... tastey. Did you put some whiskey in the water?
Posted by Mike N. 2006-05-15 17:17||   2006-05-15 17:17|| Front Page Top

#17 If the MSM spent half as much time attacking or reporting leaks of the enemy, the WOT would be long finished. But then they would be accused of taking sides and we don’t want that.
Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-05-15 18:20||   2006-05-15 18:20|| Front Page Top

#18 "Federal Source to ABC News: We Know Who You're Calling"

Good! Hang 'em high.

Starting with that "federal source."

This has nothing to do with "freedom of the press." They're all breaking the law - put them under the jail.
Posted by  Barbara Skolaut"> Barbara Skolaut  2006-05-15 18:42|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]  2006-05-15 18:42|| Front Page Top

#19 Mark Levin had a great line on his blog at NRO -- "what if the press spent as much time digging up our enemy's secrets as they do digging up our own?"
Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2006-05-15 19:03|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-05-15 19:03|| Front Page Top

#20 "Plug" the leakers and the leaks will stop. Jail or a bullet. OED.
Posted by SPoD 2006-05-15 19:40|| http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/]">[http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/]  2006-05-15 19:40|| Front Page Top

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