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Maybe Glenn Beck Isn’t So Paranoid After All

So, first we learn that the IRS improperly targeted Tea Party and other conservative groups for tax scrutiny. Now we learn that the Justice Department searched the e-mails of a Fox News reporter, and tracked his phone calls and his comings and goings. You can’t make this up. UPDATE: Ryan Lizza, on The New Yorker’s […]

So, first we learn that the IRS improperly targeted Tea Party and other conservative groups for tax scrutiny. Now we learn that the Justice Department searched the e-mails of a Fox News reporter, and tracked his phone calls and his comings and goings.

You can’t make this up.

UPDATE: Ryan Lizza, on The New Yorker’s website:

[T]he Obama Justice Department not only subpoenaed Rosen’s private e-mails but also said that Rosen was “an aider and abettor and/or co-conspirator” in the alleged crime.

Rosen was not charged with any crime, but it is unprecedented for the government, in an official court document, to accuse a reporter of breaking the law for conducting the routine business of reporting on government secrets.

Lizza adds:

That’s so encouraging.

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