XPost: alt.society.liberalism, alt.atheism, talk.politics.guns   
   From: dead@gone.com   
      
   On Tue, 21 May 2013 22:04:30 -0700, Jeanne Douglas wrote:   
      
   > In article ,   
   >  Jason@nospam.com (Jason) wrote:   
   >   
   >> In article , Tom McDonald   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> > On 5/21/2013 9:41 PM, RD Sandman wrote:   
   >> > > Tom McDonald  wrote in   
   >> > > news:reUmt.11860$v46.8618@newsfe13.iad:   
   >> > >   
   >> > >> On 5/21/2013 7:17 PM, Jason wrote:   
   >> >   
   >> >    
   >> >   
   >> > >>> Good point. I hope they have a congressional investigation about   
   >> > >>> the AP scandal. It's just as serious as the IRS scandal.   
   >> > >>>   
   >> > >>> Someone should write letters to Holder and Obama and remind them   
   >> > >>> that the constitution mentions freedom of the press. Perhaps they   
   >> > >>> have forgotten about what they learned about the constitution.   
   >> > >>>   
   >> > >>>   
   >> > >> Your problem there is that your guy, Bush2, pushed through the   
   >> > >> laws that make what happened to the AP entirely legal. You knew   
   >> > >> that it was legal, right?   
   >> > >   
   >> > > So I assume your take is that since Bush did it, it makes it   
   >> > > alright for Obama to do it?   No chance that both of them are   
   >> > > wrong?   
   >> > >   
   >> > No, my take is that just about all of the laws passed in the hysteria   
   >> > about terrorism, especially those that restrict constitutional   
   >> > rights,   
   >> > are wrong, cowardly and un-American. This is an example of how we   
   >> > gave up freedom for almost-certainly-illusory security.   
   >> >   
   >> > Whether it's a Democratic or a Republican administration doing it, I   
   >> > think it's wrong. Period.   
   >>   
   >> Do you agree that Holder violated the constitution when he forced the   
   >> AP to give the federal government their phone records? yes or no   
   >   
   >  I don't know. Has the Supreme Court ruled on it yet?   
      
   It hasn't got to court, and won't for quite a while.  AP has filed suit,   
   of course.   
      
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