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

*Sigh*

[Anonymous Coward]

It is time to fire the Attorney General. If he knew of this then he is a criminal. And if he didn't then he is an idiot. Neither are acceptable.

Re:*Sigh*

[Anonymous Coward]

Some of us have been saying this exact sentence since 2011 when Fast and Furious broke and we found out that Holder was responsible for giving 2000+ guns to Mexican drug cartels, who then used them to murder hundreds of Mexican citizens (so far).

Glad to finally have you on board!

Re:Shield laws

[girlintraining]

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

Maybe we should also be asking what compelled the director of one of the most powerful intelligence organizations in the country to feel he had to tell his fellow citizens something that was so important, he was willing to risk his career and his freedom to do.

And if we judge his actions to be on the side of justice, fairness, and the principles of democracy which we say are the foundation of our laws... then perhaps we should examine more closely how a man who did right by his people is being declared a criminal by his government.