Dept of (Social) Justice choses stupidest way to investigate govt leaks

I know it's hard to keep track of the scandals coming out of this White House, but one that especially pissed off the press was the fact that Eric Hold'em's Dept. of (Social) Justice recently seized two months of telephone records from Associated Press in Washington, I assume. The phone records were for hundreds of reporters and editors, and included even their personal phones and cell phones.

The Dept of Social Justice claims they were looking for a "leak." That is, someone in the government who was involved in a highly classified activity, leaked the information to aomeone at AP. AP subsequently -- before publication -- notified the feds that they had the story, and they even agreed to hold publication on it until they got a clearance from the government to go ahead.

But the Dept of Social Justice was still, and probably rightfuly, concerned about who in the federal government is leaking classified information to the press.

So they did some undercover thing, maybe covered by the so-called Patriot Act, and seized all of AP's phone records -- without giving AP any notice. Bear in mind, even with prior notice, there's nothing the AP could do to change or falsify the phone records, which are held by the phone company, after all.

So Eric Hold'em, head of the Dept of Social Justice, says he "recused" himself from this whole thing because he could have been the leaker. He didn't sign the subpoena (if there was one) for the phone records. Eric Hold'em was apparently playing golf with the Comrade that day.

So anyway, this guy name Mike Baker, a Fox contributor, but also a former CIA agent, now owner of a private security company suggested an alternative way to figure out who's leaking without steamrolling over the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of the press.

Baker says that in a highly classified operation, as this one was, apparently, there might a dozen people in the government who know about it. So why not question and/or polygraph those dozen people about leaking -- rather than trampling on the rights and freedoms of about 200 journalists?

So the Comrade crows about how he's protecting 60,000 troops in Afghanistan and tries to justify this misconduct this way. Of course, he didn't really know anything about it until he read about it in the newspaper or heard about it on TV. Because he's right on top of things.

But, I'm sorry, the way the Dept of Social Justice conducted this "investigation" is kind of like what the IRS has been doing the Tea Parties who applied for tax exempt status. I mean, now the DOSJ knows everyone every AP reporter and editor contacted by phone for a couple of months. Everyone. All of their contacts and the reporters themselves have been compromised. Just like the IRS now knows who ever contacted the Tea Parties, donated money, etc etc.

And the AP was a big pal of the Comrade.

Wonder if they still are.