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I completely agree with this

barefooted — Sat, 09 Jun 2018 23:38:11 +0000

I completely agree with this assessment. Her personal relationship with Wolfe adds another layer which can't be ignored because it gives a different twist to a relatively simple reporter/source privilege issue. I also don't doubt that hers were not the only records searched in regard to his suspected leaking of confidential records.

The second paragraph really does say it all - anyone with that kind of responsibility, up to and including overseeing all of the classified material that the Senate Intelligence Committee accesses - must be held to the highest standard. Full stop.

Doh! Natch, what was I

artappraiser — Sat, 09 Jun 2018 02:16:41 +0000

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Doh! Natch, what was I thinking? Anyone who was a Daily Beast Reporter has clearly got info on the whole deep state conspiracy if not an actor in it! That Spencer Ackerman guy, he's next. Long time libtard always hanging around military guys....

They were hoping to find

NCD — Sat, 09 Jun 2018 01:39:00 +0000

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They were hoping to find those lost Hillary emails Russia missed out on, worth brownie points and promotions with Trump.....

Seizing of Reporter’s Records

artappraiser — Sat, 09 Jun 2018 01:35:53 +0000

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Seizing of Reporter’s Records

artappraiser — Sat, 09 Jun 2018 01:35:19 +0000

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Seizing of Reporter’s Records Is Called a ‘Fundamental Threat’

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM 8:10 PM ET @ NYTimes.com

The revelation that federal prosecutors seized years’ worth of email and phone records from a New York Times reporter drew criticism from news organizations and press rights groups.

Thanks, can definitely use

artappraiser — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 22:27:11 +0000

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Thanks, can definitely use all the analytical one can find on this one. "Obama did it too" doesn't really cut it as adequate for me. Like to understand more. There's recent past that comes to mind like the Reality Winner case that I don't think ever got sufficiently analyzed, as in "WTF are we doing here? What's this about? Is this what we want to happen?" I do definitely buy that some people do need to keep their mouths shut under pain of prosecution because of their government job, that's not always the whole story though.

Martin Longman

NCD — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 22:12:17 +0000

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Martin Longman

Having read through the entire indictment of James Wolfe, I have to say that the Feds were justified in taking the extreme step of looking at New York Times reporter Ali Watkins’s electronic records. I don’t say this lightly, and I’m not convinced that they did everything correctly in this case, but the behavior of Wolfe constituted a legitimate national security risk warranting an override of the presumed reporter/source privilege.

The primary problem here was more general than the specific role of Ali Watkins. Mr. Wolfe was the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s director of security from May 1987 to December 2017. In that role, he was responsible for safeguarding classified and top secret material and handling highly sensitive intelligence provided to the committee.....

Notably, when I heard

artappraiser — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 04:45:04 +0000

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Notably, when I heard yesterday that this investigation may have pertained to him, I reached out to Wolfe and he lied to me: Denying that he had been contacted by the FBI/DOJ or was under investigation. “I have no knowledge,” he told me.
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 8, 2018

Burr and Warner call arrest of former aide Jim Wolfe “troubling” and said they were notified about probe late last year. “While the charges do not appear to include anything related to the mishandling of classified information, the Committee takes this matter extremely seriously”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 8, 2018

Axios.com: Former Senate

artappraiser — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 03:37:46 +0000

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Axios.com: Former Senate staffer indicted for lying to the FBI, 38 mins. ago

TheHill.com: Former Senate Intel aide indicted in DOJ leak case, 48 mins. ago

WashingtonPost.com: Ex-Senate staffer accused of lying to FBI about contacts with reporters, 16 mins. ago

A former Senate staffer has been charged with making false statements to the FBI, the Justice Department said. As part of the investigation, officials seized phone and email records of a New York Times reporter who previously was in a romantic relationship with the staffer, the newspaper said.