DOJ INVESTIGATES OWN EMPLOYEES NOT AP REPORTERS

The Associated Press is screaming with righteous indignation. They are yelling that the government overstepped its bounds, violated their civil rights, and is trying to mute the press and all this garbage. The strange thing is that the Democrats are agreeing with them. I would like to point out one big thing; the Department of Justice (DOJ) was investigating government employees, not the AP reporters. The DOJ judged that the best way to do the investigation was through use of legally obtained phone records, not phone taps. The point of the post is simple; have you ever heard of the DOJ charging a reporter with a criminal act for asking a question? That has always been true, even during the highly criminal activity of the Nixon administration.

The criminal act is divulging State secrets. We all agree that the “State” has the right to have secrets, just as you, in the individual sense but not the editorial sense, have the right to have secrets. The news media mind set is that the government should tell them everything and then they will decide what the government should hold as secret and what the government should divulge as public information, which would make the word “secret’ and oxymoron. It galls the hell out of people in the media that someone else is making that decision. Keep in mind if a reporter finds outs something that no one else knows, he/she is highly rewarded for making what ever it is, known. That is the basis for all the asinine, “When did you stop beating your wife”, questions they ask and the basis for the starling but nonsensical revelations of Jonathan Karl (ABC News) about 14 corrections to the Benghazi talking points only to be embarrassed to find that they had been given to congress weeks before his “breaking news”.

There are secrets and there are secrets, meaning there are things the public should know but don’t just because they are embarrassing to someone but there are things that should not be known because the consequences could be lethal for individual as well as for the Nation. We do not vote for reporters but I do vote for politicians, who should have oversight but they are using the oversight for political purposes, which is why I don’t vote for them. I am sure a young reporter and his editor because of a chance slip of the tongue or with alcohol or candy (candy is dandy but alcohol is quicker) would be prone to publish the information—with impunity—for the selfish gain. After an airliner blew up and several hundred people were dead because Al Quida found out there was an informant and perhaps killed him, it is too late. Even then, I do not think the reporter and his editor would have been subject to prosecution. The reporter’s right to protect his/her sources protects the government employee who revealed the information.

The DOJ, and the President of The United States, was doing a good job protecting the interest of the United States; that is exactly what they are supposed to do. They were looking for the government employee who could not be trusted. The proof is obvious; the DOJ did not issue one subpoena or file one criminal charge against a reporter or ever will be. The so call AP scandal is all politics and reporters, at least the honest ones, should treat it as such; but then we have the Obama haters: Joe Scarborough, Rush Limbaugh, and FOX, etc.

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