It’s clear that CNN’s Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto is quite alarmed by something spotted in the Comey memos:
Trump to Comey: “[Trump] replied that we need to go after the reporters…it may involve putting reporters in jail. They spend a couple days in jail. Make a new friend. And they are ready to talk.” #ComeyMemos
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) April 20, 2018
I spent years covering countries where reporters are put in jail for doing their jobs: China, Russia, Zimbabwe, Myanmar, Iran. It is an all-too-real tactic employed by undemocratic leaders around the world. Not to be dismissed or trifled with. https://t.co/HePVMkPH2M
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) April 20, 2018
Sciutto, who also spent some time working in the Obama administration, took a swing at Trump, but it accidentally landed squarely on Trump’s predecessor:
https://twitter.com/attorneymarkasu/status/987175652053823491
Hey, great questions!
Hi Jim pic.twitter.com/aV432meMYt
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 20, 2018
That was your former boss
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 20, 2018
You also worked for an administration that threatened to prosecute leakers, subpoenaed reporters phone records & hacked journalist computers. Weird you left that part out https://t.co/2RRgQPb0Px
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 20, 2018
You worked for the Obama Administration when it seized the phone records of more than 20 journalists over a two month period in 2012. Sit down. https://t.co/kbXGppDnnc
— James Hasson (@JamesHasson20) April 20, 2018
Ouch! It got weird, didn’t it?
You worked for an administration that used the Espionage Act to put a record number of reporters sources in jail there Captain America. Your current employer remarked on how often it was employed ?https://t.co/uuu23v4PM9 https://t.co/B3pjFf8cxX
— Rothbardian (@HippieH8er) April 20, 2018
— Edward Browden (@edwardbrowden) April 20, 2018
Like when Obama went after James Rosen's parents?
— Perry Bullock (@PerryBullock) April 20, 2018
Where would he get such an idea???https://t.co/P9AJUGYeM5
— DespeRobbo (@Desperobbo) April 20, 2018
https://twitter.com/3eleeve/status/987178189666639872
The top 20 responses from this are about the Obama administration doing just that. Sciutto won't respond because he knows what a hypocrite he will look like. I hate when these pundits tweet this crap and never say "oops you're right," when they're called out on it.
— Sam Galia (@SamGalia) April 20, 2018
“Journalists” who said little to nothing about it during the previous administration should sit this one out.
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