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.

Comments

Re:Shield laws

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

someone leaked classified info to the press which is a crime
DoJ is investigating
what's the problem?

Someone stole a car in your neighborhood.
The police wiretapped the phones of everyone in town, and record the license plates of all cars at every destination.
what's the problem?

If you don't get it yet, this is how they ran East Germany and Romania. "Laws" are not inherently moral dictates. Hitler had laws that made matters of public interest "classified", too.

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

[AK Marc]

Washington warned us that partisanism will be the downfall of American Politics. We haven't learned from the first Farewell Address, why would we have learned from a later one? At least Washington stood by his principles during his term. Eisenhower sold out, starting the Vietnam war before ducking out and blaming the military industrial complex. And we didn't listen to him either.