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   From: dead@gone.com   
      
   On Fri, 17 May 2013 06:09:15 -0800, linuxgal wrote:   
      
   > Zepp wrote:   
   >> On Thu, 16 May 2013 17:58:00 -0800, linuxgal wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> >Jason wrote:   
   >>>> >>Yes, I just checked my list of talking points and the AP story is   
   >>>> >>on the list. It appears that Holder is tapping the phone lines of   
   >>>> >>AP reporters. I incorrectly thought we had freedom of the press in   
   >>>> >>America. I guess that Holder does not know it.   
   >>> >   
   >>> >There's a lot of things Holder doesn't know.  He said "I don't know"   
   >>> >57 times to Congress the other day.   
   >> Given the crazy questions he got from some of them, god would have said   
   >> "I don't know" at least 35 times.   
   >   
   > Q. "Why didn't the Justice Department inform the Associated Press, as   
   > the law requires, before pawing through reporter's phone records?"   
   >   
   > A. "I don't know."   
   >   
   > The good news is that Holder is revealed, even to Democrats, to be a   
   > purely political appointee with absolutely no qualifications to be AG.   
   > He won't last out the year.   
      
   He's toast, and that's the good news.   
      
   The bad news is that AP probably won't try to force the issue and make a   
   court case out of this.  They probably fear (rightly) that this SC will   
   uphold the 'right' of the government to make blanket searches of press   
   records.   
      
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