Obama's DoJ targets Fox News reporter(s)

"The primary objective of Barack Obama and all these people is the elimination of opposition. The realities of this story, what we've learned here, is conservatives have been put on notice. The federal government is after us." ~ El Rushbo

As the AP president calls on Obama to reign in the DoJ wiretapping probe, it seems that the attacks on a free press (or free society for that matter) are expanding...of course, all with the President's knowledge, despite any and all denials...

FoxNews: The Justice Department obtained a portfolio of information about a Fox News correspondent's conversations and visits as part of an investigation into a possible leak, The Washington Post reported Monday -- in the latest example of the government seizing records of journalists.

This follows the charge that the department secretly obtained two months of phone records from Associated Press journalists as part of a separate leak probe. The department in this case, though, went a step further, as an FBI agent reportedly claimed there's evidence the journalist in question -- Fox News' James Rosen -- broke the law "at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator."

That detail would potentially send the case into unprecedented territory. No reporter has been prosecuted for seeking information. Such cases often target the suspected leaker, but not the journalist who published sensitive or classified information.

Michael Clemente, Fox News' executive vice president of news, defended Rosen in a statement issued Monday afternoon.

"We are outraged to learn today that James Rosen was named a criminal co-conspirator for simply doing his job as a reporter," Clemente said. "In fact, it is downright chilling. We will unequivocally defend his right to operate as a member of what up until now has always been a free press."

Not for long, if Mr. Fundamental Transformation has his way. And if the entirety of the outraged press, liberal or otherwise, don't start recognizing and reporting that the man himself is in the middle of all of these scandals, then there will never be any 'there, there,' which is to say, he'll get away with it (and that's the purpose).

And as I'm writing this, word breaks of two more Fox News reporters targeted...

Breitbart: Fox News reports that three Fox staffers, two reporters and one producer, were targeted by Barack Obama's Justice Department. Fox doesn't have all the details yet on reporter William La Jeunesse and producer Mike Levine, but their emails showed up in a IG report regarding Fast and Furious. Either their emails were leaked by the Justice Department officials they were sent to, or the email accounts of both were subpoenaed and invaded by government investigators.

Make no mistake...these kind of moves aren't about catching a leaker...not for basic, routine reporting. Rather, they're to scare people out of talking to the press, and likewise to scare the press out of being critical of the government. This is an attempt to stamp out dissent...and in a free nation, that is tyranny.