Well, I guess…
…Holder’s DOJ won’t be snooping into the phone records of good-little-progressive-soldier Daniel Klaidman of The Daily Beast.
[ADDENDUM: Ace points out that the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza has uncovered evidence that Holder’s DOJ judge-shopped in order to get someone who would approve the warrant and keep its contents secret from Rosen:
The new documents show that two judges separately declared that the Justice Department was required to notify Rosen of the search warrant, even if the notification came after a delay. Otherwise: “The subscriber therefore will never know, by being provided a copy of the warrant, for example, that the government secured a warrant and searched the contents of her e-mail account,” Judge John M. Facciola wrote in an opinion rejecting the Obama Administration’s argument.
Machen appealed that decision, and in September, 2010, Royce C. Lamberth, the chief judge in the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, granted Machen’s request to overturn the order of the two judges.
Judges matter, as I indicated here.
I also want to point out, as Ace does, that Ryan Lizza has been excellent lately on the scandals. I will add that Lizza has a prior advantage, if you’re familiar with his work. Back in 2008 he wrote an in-depth article on Obama’s Chicago past, and therefore probably has long held fewer illusions about Obama than most of the starry-eyed press (see this).]
Have you noticed Chris Christie is making public appearances with Obama again? I’m sure Mr Glib has all sorts of reasons for helping Obama in his time of political need, most of them have to do with money.
The fact that they’re going to get away with this fox-minding-the-hen-house ploy only goes to show that collectively we Americans are just as stupid as they think we are. Either that or their feeling of invincibility is proving to be well-founded indeed.
I don’t know which answer is worse.
He’s sorry, don’t you know. And he won’t do it again. Look, you’ve really hurt his feelings. He thought you knew he was on your side and now this. C’mon, after all you all knew he was a fired up professional prosecutor. Look how hard he went after Wall Street and the Black Panthers. Look, we’ve got assurances just like the ones for Benghazi and the IRS. Our leaders our looking into it, they’re going to find the one’s responsible, hold them accountable, and then make sure it never, ever happens again. What else do you want? If you can’t trust big government, who can you trust?
Can sainthood be far off?
A related article from Breitbart along kcom’s suggestion.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/05/28/Fox-News-vs-the-Cult-of-Obama
Excerpt:
Unlike the Nixon administration, which was suffused with paranoia, the Obama White House suffers from an excess of self-regard.
Sharpie (6:12 pm), I particularly liked this sentence:
“The heresy of Fox News is not just that it criticizes the Obama administration or that it provides a platform for conservative opinion, but that it rejects the attempt to place Obama beyond politics and accountability.”
Thanks for the link to Lizza’s 2008 piece. I went back and read it, and it does shed some light on the man we have as President. I linked here: http://bobagard.blogspot.com/2013/05/we-dont-want-nobody-nobody-sent.html