All actions of the Obama Department of Justice were ordered personally by Barack Obama. Not only were they ordered by him, but he came up with the idea to prosecute every person that the DoJ has prosecuted since minutes after he was inaugurated. This includes the federal charges brought against the man who ran naked through the streets of Knoxville, TN two minutes after Obama's inauguration screaming, "They probed me! The aliens probed me! Obama made them do it!" This pissed Obama off, so once Obama left the podium (shortly after kneeing Justice Roberts in the crotch for messing up the oath), he went directly to action and drew up the charges against this man, and since that day, he has been hard at work directing all actions at the DoJ, including every indictment pursued by all US attorneys.
The Department of Justice is not a quasi-independent federal agency with it's own agenda. It's Obama's personal Evil Doing Agency that does Obama's bidding.
Obama won't stop until every journalist is locked up - even if they leak a video of George W. Bush murdering someone with an ice sickle and dropping it into the sea (the perfect crime!). His LTs at the DoJ do his bidding. They don't sneeze without asking Obama, who often refuses their requests and then presses them to see if they've met their "making babies cry" quota for the week yet.
They don't have any prerogative to pursue their own cases. US Attorneys are direct employees of Obama for America. Once they're done knocking doors to get people to sign a pledge to support underwater airboarding of domestic terrorists, they report directly to David Axelrod for assignment: usually that assignment is to polish Rahm Emanuel's shoes or to follow him around sprinkling pixie dust in the air behind him. Other than that, they also help the Obama administration kill US reporters (not just foreign reporters anymore!), sue people for leaking classified material in a case that no one on this entire site has enough information about to actually judge (did the defendant go above and beyond what is acceptable for a whistleblower? did they obstruct justice? we don't know), and indict babies for giggling and puppies for wagging their tails.
The Obama administration generally hates journalists, and they hate sources as well. I'm 100% sure of it. I learned this information on background from a journalist source who rightly fears being indicted for sourcing my journalism about sources and journalists.
Obama STRONGLY OPPOSES any additional protections for journalists. See here:
Congress is considering legislation that would let judges make that determination, giving them greater power to quash subpoenas to reporters. The Obama administration supports such a media-shield bill, and the House of Representatives has passed a version of it. But a Senate version has been stalled for months.
The Obama administration, leading Senate Democrats and a coalition of news organizations have reached tentative agreement on legislation providing greater protections against the fining or imprisonment of reporters who refuse to identify confidential sources.
Under the deal, made public Friday, federal judges could quash subpoenas demanding testimony or information from reporters if the judges determined that the public interest in news gathering outweighed the need to uncover the source of a leak, including, in some circumstances, unauthorized disclosure of classified government information.
This is my first Pootie diary. How did I do?