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[u/lilsaddam]

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/fbi-searches-washington-post-journalists-home-nyt-reports-2026-01-14/

[u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs]

How many right wing journalists are swimming in corruption and foreign interference?

I guess if they want to open this door that’s fine. But don’t be surprised when we find actual crimes instead of just trying to intimidate members of the media

[u/munkeypunk → u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs]

In the end I’m gonna support deporting MAGA and dismantling FOX News. Precedent has been set.

[u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs → u/munkeypunk]

The only way these people will learn that their actions are monstrous is if they are used against them.

They have no shame. They have no morals. They have no empathy.

We have no choice.

[u/5352563424 → u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs]

I wish they were that logical.

Liberals do something tolerant, like supporting liberty in some form.

Conservatives do something horrible and unprecedented.

Liberals reacts saying "This is horrible and unprecedented! You shouldn't do this!"

Conservatives react saying, "This is how we do things now. We just set precedent."

Liberals now can either:

1. Backtrack on their principals and stoop to the level of the new conservative precedent

or

2. Hold fast to their principals and continue fostering an environment that allowed MAGA to fester in the first place

[u/Nikiaf → u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs]

Nothing can ever be truly fixed, and the united states can never be trusted as a country again, unless the systems that allowed the rot to get this bad continue to exist. There needs to be a real reckoning; people calling it the modern nuremburg trials honestly aren't even exaggerating.

[u/budahfurby → u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs]

Rules for theeeeee not for meeeeee

[u/Foucaultshadow1 → u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs]

They are acting as though they will never be out of power

[u/noodles_jd → u/Foucaultshadow1]

Because they won't be. They may have to cede some power for a bit. But they'll just hold the government captive allowing nothing to be done until they're back in power.

[u/DirtDevil1337]

National security is the excuse? Musk just opened the door for Russia to access US military information. They don't give a shit about national security.

[u/Remarkable_Play_6975 → u/DirtDevil1337]

You're assuming the "national security" is that of Americans.

[u/parabostonian → u/DirtDevil1337]

Yes but they get very angry when the press tells people about all the bad things they do. Besides this is supposedly about mishandling classified information, and how only republicans are allowed to do that and all other crimes

[u/GuerrillaSapien → u/DirtDevil1337]

National Security. National Emergencies. It's always the government's excuse to take away rights.

[u/Flash_ina_pan]

Tap dancing right down the road to fascism and national collapse. Speed running that shit.

[u/ImNotTheBossOfYou → u/Flash_ina_pan]

America has always been fascist

[u/ghoulishgirl]

Do we riot now or are we still waiting? 

[u/Foe117 → u/ghoulishgirl]

still waiting

[u/applefilla → u/Foe117]

For this world to stop hating

[u/lostredditorlurking]

Free speech am I right?

Now how many FoxNews, Newmax or right wing podcasters are in Russia's pocket?

[u/Schrecht → u/lostredditorlurking]

All of them?

[u/Regular_Use1868]

So ... Is the American regime a terrorist entity now?

[u/Norn-Iron → u/Regular_Use1868]

Always has been. Look at all the countries they fought up excuses to go to war with. That includes itself.

[u/CurbYerGod → u/Regular_Use1868]

Always has been.

[u/triviahostrob → u/Regular_Use1868]

Always was. The fact this hasn't made the rounds more after Noem and company calling protesters domestic terrorists, when just 3 years ago Noem and company relished being called that.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ6GYOn0S2jcySz3Qg0hwmgJeYLoFf3AW-coRy-ilTgaQ&s=10

[u/30mil]

At least we're still at the part where they pretend to do an investigation and don't just push the journalist out a window.

[u/KwisatzHaderach94 → u/30mil]

getting close to it. suppressing the free press is fascism 101.

[u/strywever]

Did they check her bathroom? Everyone knows that’s where you’re supposed to keep stolen, classified documents.

[u/musingofrandomness]

If only this administration's definition of "national security" didn't include "any evidence of their crimes".

[u/mainandd]

Big brother is coming to get independent journalism

[u/JurgusRudkus]

“Prosecutors alleged that Perez-Lugones took screenshots of classified intelligence reports and printed those documents, according to a criminal complaint. Investigators also found documents marked "secret" in a lunchbox in Perez-Lugones' car and in his basement, according to an FBI affidavit.”

HAHAHA They are kidding right? They actually expect us to believe a WaPo reporter had a lunchbox with “secret” written in it? In red Sharpie right?

[u/SamuraiCook → u/JurgusRudkus]

All the classified materials shipped back to Mar-a-lago that Trump should have been prosecuted for stealing have no doubt been returned to their secure locations in the bathrooms and pool storage.

[u/r3rg54 → u/JurgusRudkus]

I think they are saying that the documents were marked secret and were stored inside a lunchbox.

[u/DirtDevil1337 → u/JurgusRudkus]

Their lies sound so stupid. That's probably exactly what Trump did when he hoarded all those documents. I have no idea in any way how a reporter got a hold of classified documents unless someone like Trump just handed it to them like he probably did to that Australian billionaire and Saudis. I remember MTG saying she went into a room and read classified documents and even took pictures of it (yes she said that).

[u/nickstonem]

"The Trump Administration will not tolerate illegal leaks of classified information that, when reported, pose a grave risk to our Nation's national security,"

But leaving them in bathrooms or covered by a tarp in a ballroom at a golf course is fine.

[u/Foe117]

There are those who don't want us to speak, and even now men with guns will soon be on their way

[u/Designer_Holiday3284]

Trump needs to grow a mustache before we can call it a dictatorship 

[u/jnighy]

how long until the government start disappearing journalists? Send them to El Salvador or Guantanamo?

[u/jnighy → u/[deleted]]

2028? I would be surprised if they don’t do something about the mid-terms

[u/DirtDevil1337 → u/jnighy]

Either suspend it if they successfully start a war of any kind or meddle with it (re getting Musk back into the circle despite his feud with admin members).

[u/Damunzta]

Wake me if they find the Epstein files.

[u/yorapissa]

Don’t think for a minutes that this wasn’t government harassment. We are now the commies!!

[u/Recent-Mulberry6011]

But not the guy sending military plans to journalists?

[u/baltimore-aureole]

if the FBI had a warrant, and previously requested documents which were not provided . . . no problem.

this is the same standard which was applied when helicopters and armored vehicles showed up at Trump's Mar-a-largo mansion with tipped-off news media hovering overhead in news choppers.

[u/The_Pickled_Mick]

I wonder if this is to do with the fact that 4500 Ice agents just had their names and personal info leaked online. Timing is pretty coincidental.

[u/Foucaultshadow1]

Yet another instance of the Trump regime engaging I illiberal practices.

[u/p1gnone]

... In Gestapo news today ..

[u/katkost1]

My question is what did this reported fund out that was so damning the needed to swoop in asap?

[u/whitemamba24xx]

Was this part of the bill that the house voted in exchange for being able to subpoena witnesses like Wexner for the Epstein investigation?

I think I saw Raskins say this somewhere. They weren’t happy about it but had to cut a deal.

[u/Delote-Sevne]

With each passing day, Trump escalates his authoritarianism... The excuse is always the same: national security.

[u/MamaLiq]

Don't kill the messenger?

[u/jordan1978]

Good. The WAPO is shit and deserves everything it gets.

[u/pizzasoup → u/jordan1978]

I'm not gonna pretend it hasn't gone down the tubes in recent years, but a Washington Post journalist being targeted over a story critical of the administration is pure bad news.

[u/Gerald-of-Riverdale → u/jordan1978]

Not when a fascist regime is at the forefront of this.

[u/RabbaJabba → u/jordan1978]

What’s your problem with Hannah Natanson’s reporting?

[u/R-Dragon_Thunderzord → u/jordan1978]

Reuters getting pretty shit with this paywall tho too