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From: gsh7w@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy)
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Subject: Re: CNN
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Date: 19 Nov 90 14:55:37 GMT
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In article <4948@rsiatl.UUCP> jgd@rsiatl.UUCP (John G. DeArmond) writes:
#Defend themselves?  Considering that according to the papers, CNN 
#originally stole these tapes from the government, and that the FBI's
#retrieving them from an abandoned motel room (again, according to the
#paper) was simply a matter of recovering stolen property, it appears to
#me that the FBI is acting quite properly.

CNN claims that the "abandoned" room was still rented, and the
reporter was simply not in the room.

Even assuming the tape was stolen, (which the only thing I heard was
that the information may have been stolen, and the physical tape was
CNN's) the FBI still should have obtained a search warrent.

Even worse was the Supreme Court now allowing prior restraint, an
unprecidented restriction in the freedom of the press.

#The whole thing appears to revolve around the fact that Teddy-boy got
#miffed that the US went into Panama without his permission and has been
#trying to sabotage the whole thing since.

The whole thing appears to revolve around the fact that Johny-boy got
mmiffed that the US screwed up by violating the civil rights of a
suspected  criminal, and is becoming an apologist for the FBI.

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