New AP Revelations, Maddow Calls Out Obama, MSNBC Protest

May 16, 2013 Subscribe · Forward AP Scoop That Prompted DOJ Probe Only Ran After CIA Signed Off Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday that the leak that precipitated the Justice Department's secret probe of the Associated Press had "put the American people at risk." However, a piece in Thursday's Washington Post questioned that narrative at some length. The Post's Carol D. Leonnig and Julie Tate gave a detailed report of the 2012 negotiations between the AP and the White House over a national security story the wire service was planning to run. Continue reading... WATCH: Maddow Calls Out Obama MSNBC Protested By Tea Party Members NEW JOB! Come On, Bey Time Magazine's Angelina Jolie Cover (PHOTO) Was This Award-Winning Photo Doctored? AP Scoop That Prompted DOJ Probe Only Ran After CIA Signed Off Will Justice Department Target The New York Times? WATCH: Why Sherri Shepherd Is Getting A Gun Time Magazine's Angelina Jolie Cover (PHOTO) PETER G. MILLER Why a Media Shield Is Impossible There's a new urgency in Washington, a sense that the time has come to establish a national media shield that would protect news organizations and reporters from federal subpoenas and secret spying. It won't happen, certainly not in any meaningful way. Continue reading... DAVID SCHANZER Don't Forget: Leakers of Classified Information Are Criminals The media claims an unfettered right to communicate with "confidential sources" in the government who are providing them with classified information. The media calls them whistle blowers. But there is another word for these individuals -- criminals. Continue reading... ANDY KROLL Billionaires Unchained Simply tallying Adelson's wins and losses -- or the Koch brothers', or George Soros's, or any other mega-donors' -- misses the bigger point. Continue reading... DAVID KARPF 'IRS-gate' as Conservative Political Correctness The IRS "scandal" continues to unfold in Washington. The whole thing is, frankly, pretty stupid. Fundamentally, the howls of conservative outrage are nothing more than demands for more "politically correctness" from government. Continue reading... ELLIOTT NEGIN Unreliable Sources 2: How the Media Help the Kochs & ExxonMobil Spread Climate Disinformation Part 2: To understand just how the fossil fuel industry has been laundering climate disinformation, there are few better places to start than with the Washington, D.C.-based Competitive Enterprise Institute. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003