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US Government Monitoring Associated Press Phone Records

Posted by Unknown on from the burn-the-witch dept.

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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  1. Impeach Bush!!! by Vinegar+Joe · · Score: 1, Troll

    No one could be worse than Bush!

    --
    "The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
    1. Re:Impeach Bush!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      The Obama administration has aggressively investigated disclosures of classified information to the media and has brought six cases against people suspected of providing classified information, more than under all previous presidents combined.

      Well, Obama did promise change - just not the change he lead you to believe.

      Captcha for this post? Givers. As in, if you have a job, you are now a Giver. Give everything you've earned to the people who are voting for a living instead of working.

  2. Re:Shield laws by Bartles · · Score: 1, Troll

    Bullshit. JFK would be a right winger today. Go look at his speeches on taxes on youtube. The Democrat party has lurched full socialist, hence the abandonment of liberalism and the embrace of authoritarianism.