He was apparently being tracked and spied on by the Justice Department, and has been accused of crimes for simply being a reporter. But I guess it’s all right — after all, it’s not like he works for a “legitimate news operation.” As they said over at Twitchy, when you’ve lost Glenn Greenwald…

[Update a couple minutes later]

Heh.

Spoiler Alert: @presssec knows nothing about DoJ spying on @jamesrosenfnc. @barackobama only just learned of it today, while surfing the Web

— Tim Wells (@RightWingNerd) May 20, 2013

[Update mid morning]

Even though it’s that “illegitimate news organization,” Fox News, other “journalists” are taking notice:

Justice accuses @jamesrosenfnc, a v good reporter, of being “an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator” for reporting?? washingtonpost.com/local/a-rare-p…

— Ben Smith (@BuzzFeedBen) May 20, 2013

Serious idea. Instead of calling it Obama’s war on whistleblowers, let’s just call it what it is: Obama’s war on journalism.

— Eli Lake (@EliLake) May 20, 2013

Let’s hope that it’s the end of the slobbering love affair, and they finally start to notice the war the administration has been making on the rest of us.

[Update a few minutes later]

OK, one more:

These abuses of the First Amendment wouldn’t be happening if we had a constitutional law professor as president.

— jimgeraghty (@jimgeraghty) May 20, 2013

[Update a couple minutes later]

Aaaaannnd, it wasn’t just James Rosen. Megyn Kelly is hot (an evergreen statement). But now, she’s also steamed.

Apparently the War on Fox News never ended. It just went guerrilla.