US Government Monitoring Associated Press Phone Records

Picass0 writes with distressing news from the AP wire, about the AP: "The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a 'massive and unprecedented intrusion' into how news organizations gather the news." They obtained call records from a number of desk phones, and the personal phones of many news editors. The DOJ has not commented, but it may be related to the possibility that the CIA director leaked information on a foiled terror plot in Yemen last year.

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Dontcha know?

[msauve]

Laws are for plebeians, not patricians.

Don't Worry! America is STILL the "Good Guys"

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

As long as we all agree that "Good" is framed by ideology not behavior.

We're protecting everyone's freedom - by looking very closely at how everyone exercises it and categorising every result.

This is, because we all agree, that America was founded on the principle of Safety Assured - and we are guaranteed any freedom that promotes this.

Do not support terrorism and discuss the validity of these arguments. Your freedom is not a license to be unorthodox in civil or economic matters.