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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. *Sigh* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:*Sigh* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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!

  2. Re:Shield laws by girlintraining · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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  3. Re:It's only been 40 years since Nixon by cold+fjord · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

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    much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
  4. Re:It's only been 40 years since Nixon by gmuslera · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.