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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Re:It's only been 40 years since Nixon

[cold fjord]

Actually, there are shorter cycles as well, kind of like harmonics.

Interesting comment you made there about harmonics.

Harmonics can be deadly: Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse "Gallopin' Gertie"

So, at the moment the Obama administration has the following scandals brewing:

Justice Department: Gov't obtains wide AP phone records in probe
IRS: The IRS’s Tea-Party Targeting
State Department and Office of President: The Benghazi Deception

There are a few other things brewing in the background as well.

It might be a hot summer for the Obama administration regardless of the weather.

Re:It's only been 40 years since Nixon

[gmuslera]

You missed too big to jail, and everything is rigged. Nothing happened to the people responsible (more than becoming even richer). And it will keep happening.