(Image source: Fox News )   BY STEVEN SPARKMAN    Throw another scandal on the pile for the Obama administration. A report from The Washington Post reveals the Department of Justice aggressively investigated James Rosen, the chief Washington correspondent for Fox News. The Post’s report says the DOJ began investigating Rosen after this 2009 article on North Korea, which the Department claims revealed classified information. (Via Fox News )   The FBI later indicted Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, a State Department security advisor, of leaking that information.   Jin-Woo Kim was allegedly Rosen’s contact for the North Korea piece, which appeared hours after one of their meetings. According to the affidavit released by The Post , the government also considered prosecuting Rosen, and investigated him as Jin-Woo Kim’s co-conspirator.   “They used security badge access records to track the reporter’s comings and goings from the State Department ... They traced the timing of his calls ... They obtained a search warrant for the reporter’s personal e-mails.”   Like last week’s story about the DOJ seizing the AP’s phone records, the news that the government investigated a reporter for passing on leaked info is being almost universally condemned by journalists. (Via USA Today , Deseret News , The Huffington Post ) “It’s one thing to go after officials who leak classified information to the press. The Obama administration has gone after more of them than all previous administrations combined. … However, it’s something else entirely to go after a reporter who receives the leak.”  (Via Slate ) Many journalists are going so far as to accuse the Obama administration of waging a war against press freedom. National security correspondents fear a chilling effect on their ability to cultivate sources. The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald says that’s precisely what the Obama administration wants: “ to ensure that the only information the public can get is information that the Obama administration wants it to have.”   But no network responded quite like Fox News , who by all accounts was caught completely off guard by the report. The company’s vice president of news said they are outraged, with host Brit Hume outlining some of the everyday reporting work that apparently got Rosen in trouble. “ They’re citing things said at one point. …  ‘What I’m interested in, as you might expect, is breaking news ahead of my competitors.’ ...  If that’s a crime, I don’t know what’s left of the protections afforded by the first amendment.”   If Rosen is tried, it reportedly would be the first time a reporter will be tried as a co-conspirator for accepting classified information.