Unreal.
In an explosive new bombshell report, the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza claims that the Obama administration deliberately kept Fox News reporter James Rosen in the dark about the warrant to search through his personal emails.
The Obama administration argued it might need to monitor James Rosen's email account over lengthy period of time… http://t.co/viBdFPdCgl
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) May 24, 2013
DoJ told federal judge it wanted to monitor Rosen's personal email "for a lengthy period of time" http://t.co/C3iIr483Mx
— Sunny McSunnyface (@sunnyright) May 24, 2013
“A lengthy period of time”? What does that mean? And shouldn’t the DOJ have at least given Rosen the courtesy of telling him that they’d be combing through his personal communications?
U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen, Jr., didn’t seem to think so. According to Lizza, unsealed court documents reveal that Machen did not want Rosen to know he was being monitored.
He argued that disclosure of the search warrant would preclude the government from monitoring the account, should such a step become necessary in the investigation. Machen added that “some investigations are continued for many years because, while the evidence is not yet sufficient to bring charges, it is sufficient to have identified criminal subjects and/or criminal activity serious enough to justify continuation of the investigation.”
Machen insisted the investigation would be compromised if Rosen was informed of the warrant, and also asked the court to order Google not to notify Rosen that the company had handed over Rosen’s e-mails to the government. Rosen, according to recent reports, did not learn that the government seized his e-mail records until it was reported in the Washington Post last week.
DoJ further wanted a federal judge to order Google to not tell Rosen that they had compromised his Gmail account http://t.co/C3iIr483Mx
— Sunny McSunnyface (@sunnyright) May 24, 2013
Remember, this is Rosen's personal account. They wanted to monitor it for a "lengthy" period of time. And to order Google silent.
— Sunny McSunnyface (@sunnyright) May 24, 2013
More from Lizza’s report:
The new documents show that two judges separately declared that the Justice Department was required to notify Rosen of the search warrant, even if the notification came after a delay. Otherwise: “The subscriber therefore will never know, by being provided a copy of the warrant, for example, that the government secured a warrant and searched the contents of her e-mail account,” Judge John M. Facciola wrote in an opinion rejecting the Obama Administration’s argument.
Per Lizza, Machen apparently got his way after appealing the decision.
Do you understand what that breaking news means? Holder's DOJ fought to keep treating Rosen as a criminal for an extended period of time.
— RBe (@RBPundit) May 24, 2013
Department of Injustice.
@sunnyright @JohnEkdahl Wow…major Gestapo like tactics used by Obama and Holder against Rosen. How can we trust any of them?
— Laura McGinnis (@TxsleuthUSA) May 24, 2013
Not only did Holder and the DOJ treat @JamesRosenFNC like a criminal, they wanted to do it for an extended period of time. WOW.
— RBe (@RBPundit) May 24, 2013
They didn't just cross the line a little to get vital info, they wanted to cross the line and camp out there indefinitely.
— RBe (@RBPundit) May 24, 2013
This is downright chilling.
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