the racist scum won't commit to NOT jailing journalists (you mean, like dictators do??)

[niyad]

(we can get away with anything when we invoke "national security)

Jeff Sessions won’t commit to not jailing journalists




“I don’t know if I can make a blanket commitment” to protect the press, the attorney general admitted under oath


Days after President Trump openly suggested that the broadcasting licenses for networks whose reporting he does not like be revoked, his attorney general refused to pledge he won't try to jail journalists for doing their jobs. Jeff Sessions returned to the congressional committee on which he served as an Alabama senator for the first time since becoming Trump’s attorney general. Sessions’ former Democratic colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee aggressively questioned him on a wide range of topics, including his office’s plans to protect the press from his boss.


"Can you commit to not jailing reporters for doing their jobs?" Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., asked Sessions on Wednesday. “I don’t know if I can make a blanket commitment to that effect,” Sessions responded, “but I would say we have not taken any aggressive action against the media at this point.”

Sessions did go on to acknowledge that the Trump administration has begun to implement an aggressive crackdown on leaks of national security information to journalists. In August, Sessions announced a review of the Justice Department’s internal guidelines for issuing subpoenas and search warrants to journalists.

“We respect the important role the press plays and we’ll give them respect, but it’s not unlimited,” Sessions said at the time.On Wednesday, he further explained that “we have matters that involve the most serious national security issues that put our country at risk and we will utilize the authorities that we have legally and constitutionally if we have to."


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https://www.salon.com/2017/10/18/jeff-sessions-wont-commit-to-not-jailing-journalists/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Step 2. In effect sooner than I predicted.

I wish my "chicken little" act or my "hyperbolic" act were those things indeed, but sadly everything I discuss, happens sooner or later.


ps

you have a typo in OP title


Earlier I mentioned they are working to legalize rape, outlaw abortion and birth control but I was told I was the problem by suggesting they would do that...

[get the red out]

3. They WOULD do that

They will do every damn bit of it they can get by with, then come up with more!

[niyad]

4. thanks. was just coming in to fix it.

[guillaumeb]

2. "but I would say we have not taken any aggressive action against the media at this point.

Those words say all anyone needs to hear when spoken by the AG of the US.

[niyad]

5. rightttt.. because threatening their licenses, persistently calling them "fake news",

daily excoriations of the media--none of that is aggressive.

[guillaumeb]

6. Agressors often see their actions as necessary ones.

The others are simply called sadists.

[niyad]

7. sick, evil, twisted scum.