After the IRS thing hard to believe this is coincidence right?

The Washington Post says:

Privacy protections limit searching or seizing a reporter's work, but not when there is evidence that the journalist broke the law against unauthorized leaks. A federal judge signed off on the search warrant -- agreeing that there was probable cause that Rosen was a co-conspirator.

Machen's office said in a statement that it is limited in commenting on an open case, but that the government "exhausted all reasonable non-media alternatives for collecting the evidence" before seeking a search warrant.

However, it remains an open question whether it's ever illegal, given the First Amendment's protection of press freedom, for a reporter to solicit information. No reporter, including Rosen, has been prosecuted for doing so.

Rosen appears to have been soliciting Kim for information - but as Glenn says:

Kim did not obtain unauthorized access to classified information, nor steal documents, nor sell secrets, nor pass them to an enemy of the US. Instead, the DOJ alleges that he merely communicated this innocuous information to a journalist - something done every day in Washington - and, for that, this arms expert and long-time government employee faces more than a decade in prison for "espionage".

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Under US law, it is not illegal to publish classified information. That fact, along with the First Amendment's guarantee of press freedoms, is what has prevented the US government from ever prosecuting journalists for reporting on what the US government does in secret. This newfound theory of the Obama DOJ - that a journalist can be guilty of crimes for "soliciting" the disclosure of classified information - is a means for circumventing those safeguards and criminalizing the act of investigative journalism itself. These latest revelations show that this is not just a theory but one put into practice, as the Obama DOJ submitted court documents accusing a journalist of committing crimes by doing this.

That same "solicitation" theory, as the New York Times reported back in 2011, is the one the Obama DOJ has been using to justify its ongoing criminal investigation of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange: that because Assange solicited or encouraged Manning to leak classified information, the US government can "charge [Assange] as a conspirator in the leak, not just as a passive recipient of the documents who then published them."

Never in a million years did I think we'd have a "Democratic" president who seems determined to criminalize reporting/journalism.  

For example, reporting on gov't corruption is seen as a "good" thing because ideally the outcome is a better gov't.

On the other hand, a reporter revealing national security secrets just because they're secret - "In other news, last month the CIA inserted 5 operatives inside al Queda!" - while news, rarely has a positive outcome for anyone.

Similar disastrous response from the audience.  JH supposedly gave the middle finger salute to the Forest Hills crowd of white prepubescents as he left the stage.  Seems Jim Morrison was also appropriately rude to the folkies.

Manzarek I always pegged as the main driver of their music, both in the studio and on stage, with Morrison providing the poetical lyrics and the surly, menacing image, and the other 2 pulling their weight creatively.

There is no one in the final four who I think should not be there. Not a Bristol Palin in the group. All four are excellent dancers. From what I have seen so far, and I have not seen the freestyle dances yet, my vote goes to Zendaya.

The Times article just stuck me funny on two counts...
The first being the use of the phrase, "The White House said"... and not meaning the primo occupant thereof...

The second was the casual reference to the fact that members of the White House apparently routinely take it upon themselves to decide whether or not to inform the President about an issue.

I was referring to the phrase, "The White House said"... without a specific reference to whom the actual speaker was. They didn't write the White House Press Secretary, or the President... Just "The White House". A house don't talk - last I heard.