CNN: DOJ Has Proof It Alerted News Corp. Of Rosen Subpoena

[ProSense]

CNN: DOJ Has Proof It Alerted News Corp. Of Rosen Subpoena

The Department of Justice claims it has proof it alerted the parent company of Fox News of a warrant used to obtain the phone log records of Washington correspondent Rosen as part of an investigation into a 2010 leak of classified information, according to CNN.

"The Justice Department is telling us here at CNN....that it showed a Fox News notification according to the Justice Department of this James Rosen investigation nearly three years ago," CNN's Jim Acosta said on air Wednesday. "To back that up, earlier this afternoon Justice and law enforcement producer Carol Cratty was shown by a law enforcement official documents indicating as much of this notification to the parent company of Fox News, News Corporation."

The Justice Department previously said it had notified News Corp. of the seizure on Aug. 27, 2010, but company officials over the weekend said they had no such record. News Corp.'s chief legal counsel at the time also strongly denied receiving a subpoena from the government.

"Consistent with the department policies, and procedures, the government provided notification of the subpoenas they're saying for phone records and other pieces of information nearly three years ago by certified mail, fax, and e-mail," a DOJ official said in a statement obtained by Acosta.

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http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/cnn-doj-has-proof-it-alerted-news-corp

CNN's reporting is a little off: "The Justice Department is telling us here at CNN...earlier this afternoon Justice and law enforcement producer Carol Cratty was shown by a law enforcement official documents."

I mean, if Cratty saw the documents, that's a little more than "telling us." Still, what's with the attempts to create drama?

CNN Botches Key Facts In Holder Story
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022917017

The Rosen Case: Questions About the Kim Warrant

Posted by Ryan Lizza

Below is a newly disclosed document from the Obama Administration’s case against Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, a State Department adviser accused of violating the Espionage Act of 1917 by allegedly giving classified information about North Korea to the Fox News reporter James Rosen...Many of the facts outlined in the Kim warrant were repeated in a subsequent, more controversial warrant for Rosen’s Gmail account, which was uncovered last week. But I’m posting the Kim warrant for people who are following the case closely.

Three things strike me as notable:

1. Even before the government sought this search warrant, and certainly after it executed it, the case against Kim was strong. Early on, the government was able to find crucial e-mails between Kim and Rosen by monitoring Kim’s State Department computer, which Kim used to check his Yahoo account. The government also had detailed phone records documenting numerous calls between the two men, including a call at the very time Kim was logged into his secure computer and was accessing the classified material that showed up in Rosen’s article.

2. Whether Justice should be using the outdated Espionage Act to go after leakers at all is an important question (there may be legal routes that are more apt). But, if you put that aside for a moment and assume it’s an appropriate tool, the strength of the government’s case against Kim, which is clear in this newly disclosed search warrant, makes one wonder again why Attorney General Eric Holder allowed his prosecutors to take the unprecedented step of naming Rosen as an “aider, abettor, and/or co-conspirator” to the alleged crime in order to search Rosen’s e-mails.

3. There is some evidence in this search warrant that the government realized that going after Rosen’s personal e-mail would be controversial. A footnote in this document says, “The FBI is not at this time seeking a search warrant for [Rosen’s Gmail account]. Rather, it is restricting its request for e-mail search warrants to accounts associated with Mr. Kim.” That was a notable moment of prosecutorial restraint in a case defined by overreach.

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http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/05/the-rosen-case-questions-about-the-kim-warrant.html

News Corp. vs. Fox News? (the Rosen story gets even more bizarre)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022910478

Rosen was informed?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022910173

[FSogol]

1. K&R. n/t

[warrprayer]

2. kick n/t

[Cha]

3. I should hope so!

thank you, ProSense

[Rex]

4. The RWing is eating itself alive over the fact that this was all

done legally and there is no scandal! It must suck being in such a huge party of losers. They need to go after the REAL scandal - the false evidence used in the Benghazi farce! I want Issa to end up behind bars! We all do!

[gateley]

5. They always lie, they assume everybody does. I'm glad the DOJ was able to show proof.

Infuriating that their word was even questioned.

[ProSense]

14. And after hyping Fox lies

"They always lie, they assume everybody does. I'm glad the DOJ was able to show proof."

...the media simply report the fact that Fox knew without hyping the fact that Fox lied.

[Tarheel_Dem]

6. K&R

[Scurrilous]

7. K & R

[pinboy3niner]

8. Is CNN creating a drama?

Too close to call.

[DevonRex]

9. It could go either way.

Down to the wire. Maybe beyond!!!!!

[sheshe2]

10. K&R! nt

[Iliyah]

11. Ya'know

the gopers hammered on Susan Rice, they are hammering on Eric Holder and has never stopped hammering on Pres O.. There is pattern here, and I'm getting effing tired of this shit. Where is the eff of the so called cable media jerks huh. CNN is trying, but where's the others, yes, the corporate media cares for trumped up non-scandals then getting to the real facts. The corporate media don't give a rats arse about us commoners.

Write the truth about how the GOPers are obstructing all in the same of their corporate masters. On right corporate media's masters as well.

Who altered the e-mails that the corporate media ran with for many days huh.

[ProSense]

15. Yes,

"There is pattern here"

...Fox and Republicans continue to dupe people.

Rupert Murdoch Has Gamed American Politics Every Bit as Thoroughly as Britain's

John Nichols on July 16, 2011

Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch has manipulated not just the news but the news landscape of the United States for decades. He has done so by pressuring the Federal Communications Commission and Congress to alter the laws of the land and regulatory standards in order to give his media conglomerate an unfair advantage in “competition” with more locally focused, more engaged and more responsible media.

It’s an old story: while Murdoch’s Fox News hosts prattle on and on about their enthusiasm for the free market, they work for a firm that seeks to game the system so Murdoch’s “properties” are best positioned to monopolize the discourse.

Now, with Murdoch’s News Corp. empire in crisis—collapsing bit by bit under the weight of a steady stream of allegations about illegal phone hacking and influence peddling in Britain—there is an odd disconnect occurring in much of the major media of the United States. While there is some acknowledgement that Murdoch has interests in the United States (including not just his Fox News channel but the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post), the suggestion is that Murdoch was more manipulative, more influential, more controlling in Britain than here.

But that’s a fantasy. Just as Murdoch has had far too much control over politics and politicians in Britain during periods of conservative dominance—be it under an actual Tory such as former Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major and current Prime Minister David Cameron or under a faux Tory such as former Prime Minister Tony Blair—he has had far too much control in the States. And that control, while ideological to some extent, is focused mainly on improving the bottom line for his media properties by securing for them unfair legal and regulatory advantages.

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http://www.thenation.com/blog/162083/rupert-murdoch-has-gamed-american-politics-every-bit-thoroughly-britains#

[usGovOwesUs3Trillion]

12. Shows up clearly on all our taps ;)

[ProSense]

13. I wouldn't be surprised

"Shows up clearly on all our taps "

...if this was designed to give Fox political cover in Murdoch's hacking scandal.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022910478