Friday, May 17, 2013

Five questions about the AP surveillance

As is their pattern, defenders of the president offer a straw man in regard to the subpoena of Associated Press phone records:  Shouldn’t we investigate leaks?
Duh, yes. The entire question, however, revolves around the extent of the probe and its necessity. Only the Richard Nixon fan club would argue, for example, that it is okay to willy-nilly conduct surveillance of the press on a leak that wasn’t actually a threat to national security.
The AP issue revolves around several issues.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2013/05/17/five-questions-about-the-ap-surveillance/?hpid=z2 

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