You thought Nixon was bad news? Obama has him beat in spades. Now he is spying on the media and parents of reporters.

The Obama Justice Department has seized the phone records of numbers that are associated with White House staffers and, apparently, with Fox News reporters, according to a document filed in the case of Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, on October 13, 2011. Kim is a former State Department contractor accused of violating the Espionage Act for allegedly leaking classified information to James Rosen, a Fox News reporter  . . . . . . Yesterday, the Washington Post reported that, as part of the investigation of the Kim leak,Obama’s Department of Justice seized e-mails from Rosen’s personal Gmail account. In the search warrant for that request, the government described Rosen as “an aider, and abettor, and / or co-conspirator” in violating the Espionage Act, noting that the crime can be punished by ten years in prison. Rosen was not indicted in the case, but the suggestion in a government document that a reporter could be guilty of espionage for engaging in routine reporting is unprecedented and has alarmed many journalists and civil libertarians.  . . . .   continue here.*

Editor’s notes:  the fact of the matter is this:  Rosen’s records have been seized,  along with his parents records,  and the records of 5 other Fox News reporters and network producers.   All this happened two years ago and without notification to Fox or any of its personnel.  More than this,  charges where never filed against Fox or Rosen.  In fact,  there does not appear to have been any follow-up whatsoever  . . . . .  just the Obama probe.  Understand that this took place at the very time Obama went on a public rampage against Fox News and can only be understood in the context of a vile and threatening warning to those who dare to oppose this Administration.  

Never forget that Obama is our first “revenge” president,  he, using that term in a collegiate speech,  before the 2012 elections.  While he was referencing the 2012 vote as an “act of revenge,”  the fact remains that this is the man’s thought process,  one of getting even,  of revenge.  He is the first “president”  to ever use such language but not the first to target the press.  This sort of action was partially responsible for bring down the presidency of Richard Nixon,  who also hated the media.  I only hope that this is where this all winds up.  For certainly,  it will take more than one scandal to do the trick.  Hope is found in the fact that there are three huge scandals in the works,  as we speak.  

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*Quote taken from a TheNewYorker.com .