Reporter Phone Records Being Used to Find Leaks

jackbird writes "Brian Ross, Chief Investigative Correspondent for ABC news says a confidential source informed him that reporter's phone records are being used by the administration to track down leaks. Apparently reporters for the New York Times, ABC News, and the Washington Post are being scrutinized. The fact that ABC News journalists are even seriously wondering about whether the warning is connected to the NSA's domestic surveillance activities indicates just how anxious many people in Washington have become."

Comments

Re:Wrong.

[kalel666]

Not to be an ass, but what secret CIA prisons? The ones in Europe that Dana Priest reported on, after a leak from Mary McCarthy, that won him a Pulitzer? The ones that the EU investigated and found no proof of (http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2006/04 /21/eu_official_no_evidence_of_illegal_cia_action/ /)? Those?

And while Valerie Plame could be described as an active agent of the CIA, there is no law about divulging that info. There is a law against divulging it if she is a covert agent, but her appearance on the cover of Vanity Fair would seem to argue against that.

Re: Great!

[Black Parrot]

> About time they figure out who is leaking top secret information to the press! I hope they find the traitors and put them in jail for disclosing secret information that could put our troops in danger.

If you want to enjail people for putting our troops in danger, you should start with Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and their cronies. They've gotten 2400 of our troops killed and about ten times that many maimed by starting an unnecessary war on false pretexts.

Re:lives are at stake with leaks.

[kalel666]

Where does that belief lead, though? Who decides what is "more important than keeping damaging secrets"? Who decides what is a damaging secret, for that matter? Right now, the Republicans are in power. Eventually the Democrats or someone else will be. Where does it end? The politicization of classified information leads to a place where nothing is classified, nothing is secret.

And despite what some may think, there are times when information must be kept secret.