Tom Clancy lives. We have a source inside the North Korean government. Clancy's Agent Cardinal comes back to life. If true, this is fantastic, the stuff of spy stories, right up there with the Oleg Penkofski story. US senator Chuckie the Schumer (D-NY) revealed this tantalizing bit of news this morning on national TV.
This might explain the Justice Dept snooping on AP and Fox reporters. Leaking the NORK source is big enough to get usually sensible law enforcement people to do foolish things. Law enforcement probably didn't have a clue as to who the leaker was. So they decided to snoop reporters email and cell phones, to find out who the reporters had been talking to. This is strictly illegal. Fourth Amendment says "No Warrents shall issue, but upon probable cause."
So they trumped up espionage charges against the Fox News reporter in order to get a judge to issue the search warrent. And that is how Holder can say with a straight face that he had no intention of prosecuting reporters. Well, no, he didn't plan to prosecute them, he just wanted to snoop their email and cell phones.
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