Quote (Beowulf @ Feb 26 2017 03:57pm)
It gets even worse. Donald Trump abused his powers by conducting a blatantly illegal and chilling repression of the free media by ordering AP reporter's phones records seized in clear violation of their 1st amendment freedoms in an attempt to find the leakers
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/us/phone-records-of-journalists-of-the-associated-press-seized-by-us.htmlQuote
The A.P. said that the Justice Department informed it on Friday that law enforcement officials had obtained the records for more than 20 telephone lines of its offices and journalists, including their home phones and cellphones. It said the records were seized without notice sometime this year.
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The development represents the latest collision of news organizations and federal investigators over government efforts to prevent the disclosure of national security information, and it comes against a backdrop of an aggressive policy by the Trump administration to rein in leaks.
When he went from grabbing his own aides' phones to seizing the phones of journalists, he crossed the red line into pure dictatorship.