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Playinghardball (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 12:56 PM Original message |
Assange: Obama looks to ‘put a chill across all investigative journalism’ |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 01:01 PM Response to Original message |
1. Not the first time Obama has slammed his foot in his mouth over a legal issue.. |
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Eagle Mall (199 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 01:25 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. How'd you like that speech at Parliament? First US President to do so. |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 01:27 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Yeah! And what about this?! |
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Eagle Mall (199 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 01:35 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. you guys are really having a run of bad luck lately, huh? |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 01:40 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. An "enemy"? |
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Eagle Mall (199 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 02:12 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. what else do you call someone who you revile? |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 01:34 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. "bitter Obama hating route" |
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Eagle Mall (199 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 01:37 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. sorry, you don't get to muzzle our President. |
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Wait Wut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 01:42 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. +1 |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 02:56 PM Response to Reply #6 |
15. WTF are you talking about? |
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frylock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 02:58 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. careful.. |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 03:31 PM Response to Reply #17 |
24. I know, right? |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 03:18 PM Response to Reply #6 |
21. LOL. It's too bad a president with a law degree has to be reminded |
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frylock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 02:54 PM Response to Reply #2 |
14. it's more of a bitter, freedom-loving route |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 07:10 PM Response to Reply #2 |
49. So to you, because the Colonial, Imperial ruling class of Britain |
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JonLP24 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 01:43 PM Response to Reply #1 |
11. I disagree |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 01:39 PM Response to Original message |
7. manning was not a whistleblower. he down loaded hundreds of thousands with hope of gotcha |
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frylock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 02:57 PM Response to Reply #7 |
16. daniel ellsberg would vehemently disagree.. |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 04:05 PM Response to Reply #16 |
32. betcha there are a lot that would disagree with him. hey, obama is a constitutional scholar, too. |
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frylock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 04:51 PM Response to Reply #32 |
43. that whooshing sound you hear? |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 05:57 PM Response to Reply #43 |
44. no. it is merely that there are people that disagree with your position |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 06:14 PM Response to Reply #44 |
45. If Manning did as alleged, what evidence do you have that he did it as a "gotcha". |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 06:25 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. i could say it slower i guess.... he did not go after anything specific. he pulled down hundreds |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 06:54 PM Response to Reply #46 |
48. You are presenting nothing but mere speculation. You have no clue what the leaker |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 07:13 PM Response to Reply #48 |
50. the FACT is he downloaded hundreds of thousands of cable, clueless what was on them |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 07:16 PM Response to Reply #50 |
51. So you are saying with 100% certainty that whoever leaked these cables |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 07:18 PM Response to Reply #51 |
52. if a person read three cables then they hand off 3, if that is what they are blowing the whistle |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 07:24 PM Response to Reply #52 |
53. Nobody has been charged with treason. Not even Manning. |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 07:29 PM Response to Reply #53 |
54. you are right. and again, this is opinion. i am not sittin as judge or juror |
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TorchTheWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
9. only in the US, and we haven't done any real investigative journalism here for decades |
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Dreamer Tatum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
12. Assange is not even close to being an investigative journalist |
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frylock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 03:00 PM Response to Reply #12 |
18. actually he provided news agencies with scads of stolen documents to vet.. |
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Dreamer Tatum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 03:30 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. He's more of a trafficker of stolen documents than journalist. |
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krabigirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 03:32 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. Keep telling yourself that. |
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Dreamer Tatum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 04:02 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. Only needed to tell myself that once. |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 03:33 PM Response to Reply #23 |
28. Who does Wikileaks traffic to? |
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NavyDem (284 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 03:47 PM Response to Reply #18 |
29. So he is a SOURCE not a JOURNALIST |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 04:26 PM Response to Reply #29 |
36. He and other Wikileaks members produced the collateral murder video. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 03:01 PM Response to Reply #12 |
20. Tell that to Iceland. As a direct result of Wikileaks |
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Dreamer Tatum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 04:04 PM Response to Reply #20 |
31. Again, that makes him a trafficker of stolen documents. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 04:17 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. LOL. Pathetic and likely neck breaking. |
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Dreamer Tatum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 04:27 PM Response to Reply #34 |
37. Yes, it would break your neck to find anything he's written |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 04:28 PM Response to Reply #31 |
38. Please see post #36 |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 03:18 PM Response to Reply #12 |
22. First of all, Assange is not Wikileaks and second, you are wrong... |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 04:34 PM Response to Reply #22 |
40. You are talking to kitchen tables. Try again when a TeaPubliKlan is in office for a different tune. |
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krabigirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 03:32 PM Response to Reply #12 |
25. Those scads of documents are much more informative than the crap the msm pushes as news. |
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Dreamer Tatum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 04:29 PM Response to Reply #25 |
39. Gee, then you'd think Assange would frickin' READ one or two and write something on his own? |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 04:21 PM Response to Reply #12 |
35. Oh Jeebus Christ. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
19. Department of Justice Subpoenas a New York Times Reporter |
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krabigirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 03:33 PM Response to Original message |
27. K & R. |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 04:07 PM Response to Original message |
33. Julian doesn't understand our legal system |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 04:39 PM Response to Reply #33 |
42. No he is not admitting to anything. Raw Story journalists are extremely sloppy. |
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grahamhgreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 04:36 PM Response to Original message |
41. If the President says he's guilty, then he's guilty. That's the way it works |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 06:35 PM Response to Reply #41 |
47. "If they weren't guilty, they wouldn't be suspects" -Ed Meese.. |
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