Remember the Times Obama admin was BUSTED for spying on a reporter, the senate and a news orginations, it's not inconceivable they tapped Trump's computer. They tapped Rosen's phone, seized his personal e-mails.
The
Justice Department spied extensively on Fox News reporter James Rosen in 2010,
collecting his telephone records, tracking his movements in and out of the
State Department and seizing two days of Rosen’s personal emails, the Washington Post reported on Monday.
In a
chilling move sure to rile defenders of civil liberties, an FBI agent also
accused Rosen of breaking anti-espionage law with behavior that—as described in
the agent's own affidavit—falls well inside the bounds of traditional news
reporting. (Disclosure: This reporter counts Rosen among his friends.)
UPDATE:
Fox News responds with a blistering statement that asserts Rosen was "simply doing his
job" in his role as "a member of what up until now has
always been a free press.”
The
revelations surfaced with President Barack Obama’s administration already under
fire for seizing two months of telephone records of reporters
and editors at the Associated Press. Obama last week said he makes “no
apologies” for investigations into national security-related leaks. The AP's
CEO, Gray Pruitt, said Sunday that the seizure was
"unconstitutional."
(CNN)Five CIA employees who improperly
accessed data belonging to the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence will not face disciplinary measures as they "acted reasonable
under the complex and unprecedented circumstances in investigating a potential
security breach in the highly classified shared computer network,"
according to an agency accountability board.
Chaired
by former Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Indiana, alongside former Obama White House
attorney Bob Bauer and three senior CIA officers, the board was convened in
August 2014 by CIA Director John Brennan and tasked with investigating the
misconduct and putting forward recommendations to ensure that "future
instances of the miscommunication and confusion that led to this
controversy" do not arise again.
The Justice
Department looked into it at the request of the CIA and decided
there wasn't enough evidence of a crime to warrant further investigation.
The Obama administration, which has a chilling
zeal for investigating leaks and prosecuting leakers, has failed to offer a
credible justification for
secretly combing through the phone records of reporters and editors at The
Associated Press in
what looks like a fishing expedition for sources and an effort to frighten off
whistle-blowers.
