The Obama administration's equating of routine journalistic reporting with criminality is reprehensible. The Associated Press and Fox News scandals demonstrate this is a flagrant assault on civil liberties, using schemes to silence critics in a way Richard Nixon could only have dreamed of.
Accusing a news organization of being a "co-conspirator" shows this administration has little regard for our Constitution. If AP and Fox can't exercise freedom of press, and citizens are harassed for wanting to exercise their rights of assembly and free speech through tax-exempt status, our whole system of civil liberties is threatened by those who took an oath to defend those rights.
Reimund Manneck
Clifton Park