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BREAKING NEWS: DRUDGE SIREN - Govt obtains wide AP phone records in probe
Drudge Report ^ | 05-13-2013 | cww

Posted on 05/13/2013 1:49:29 PM PDT by CWW

Edited on 05/13/2013 1:56:19 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

WASHINGTON (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.

The records obtained by the Justice Department listed incoming and outgoing calls, and the duration of each call, for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and the main number for AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP.

In all, the government seized those records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. The exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period is unknown but more than 100 journalists work in the offices whose phone records were targeted on a wide array of stories about government and other matters.

In a letter of protest sent to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, AP President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt said the government sought and obtained information far beyond anything that could be justified by any specific investigation. He demanded the return of the phone records and destruction of all copies.

"There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters. These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to AP's newsgathering operations, and disclose information about AP's activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know," Pruitt said.

The government would not say why it sought the records. U.S. officials have previously said in public testimony that the U.S. attorney in Washington is conducting a criminal investigation into who may have leaked information contained in a May 7, 2012, AP story about a foiled terror plot. The story disclosed details of a CIA operation in Yemen that stopped an al-Qaida plot in the spring of 2012 to detonate a bomb on an airplane bound for the United States.

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To: CWW

I guess the IRS admission wasn’t enough to distract from Benghazi, so now this.


21 posted on 05/13/2013 1:53:56 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: CWW

I guess the IRS admission wasn’t enough to distract from Benghazi, so now this.


22 posted on 05/13/2013 1:53:57 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: CWW

Wasn’t that a long time ago?


23 posted on 05/13/2013 1:53:59 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: CWW

Spooks in the CIA are retaliating for O’barry walking all over them.


24 posted on 05/13/2013 1:54:00 PM PDT by Old Yeller
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To: libbylu

IRS, Benghazi, AP. Which is the 4th one? Gosnell?


25 posted on 05/13/2013 1:54:35 PM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: CWW

Sure looks like a movement is beginning to sacrifice Obama to save Hillary. I guess the Clinton faction in DC has their marching orders.


26 posted on 05/13/2013 1:54:35 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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To: CWW

Duplicate Post - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018908/posts


27 posted on 05/13/2013 1:54:55 PM PDT by BubbaBasher ("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
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To: Gaffer
It seems there are more than a few whistleblowers within the evil bowels of this Obama infested government who have decided now is the time to reveal the reveal.

Klinton machine. She isn't going under the bus alone.
28 posted on 05/13/2013 1:54:57 PM PDT by Old Yeller
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To: CWW

Gonna be fun to watch the press on this one.... they are in a box.


29 posted on 05/13/2013 1:55:03 PM PDT by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: CWW
Let's see how the Obama Media Complex reacts to this. . Will they finally turn and start reporting the truth? And gee, maybe we might just see some old fashioned investigative reporting? Just maybe? Now wouldn't that be something!

They could start with Obama's background. How about finally vetting Obama for starters? What do you mean he's off limits? Dude, he just stole your phone records! What will it take?

30 posted on 05/13/2013 1:55:14 PM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: Sleeping Freeper

I knew one day this day would come..this is what happens when the media kisses the ass of Obama since day 1..Obama is a cocky son of a bitch..he always believed he could get away with ANYTHING..including murder..his chickens are coming home to roost


31 posted on 05/13/2013 1:55:16 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: CWW

Let’s see the press defend this one!!!!!


32 posted on 05/13/2013 1:55:29 PM PDT by Rocky (Obama is pure evil.)
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To: CWW

The entire Obama Gestapo needs to be run outta Dodge!!


33 posted on 05/13/2013 1:55:41 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: CWW
The Cloward and Piven strategy overwhelming the corruption system.

Dear Leader learned their lesson well.

Will there be enough time and congressmen to investigate this bottomless sewer of one scandal after another?

34 posted on 05/13/2013 1:55:47 PM PDT by Lovely-Day-For-A-Guinness (Eenie meanie, chili beanie, the spirits are about to speak....)
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To: taildragger; libbylu

And that high ranking Iraqi saying Obama was messing up too.


35 posted on 05/13/2013 1:55:54 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: CWW
The Obama administration has aggressively investigated disclosures of classified information to the media and has brought six cases against people suspected of leaking classified information, more than under all previous presidents combined.

Watch for him to declare Benghazi "classified."

36 posted on 05/13/2013 1:56:22 PM PDT by livius
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To: CWW
A perfect storm?
37 posted on 05/13/2013 1:56:22 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Moslems reserve the right to detonate anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: CWW

Are we witnessing the fall of the Fourth Reich?

38 posted on 05/13/2013 1:56:29 PM PDT by McGruff (You are either with us or you are with the RINOs.)
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To: riri
This is the final scene from Will Smith's Enemy of the State. The Obamaites and the Clintonites have opened fire on each other and nobody's gonna stop until all clips have been emptied.


39 posted on 05/13/2013 1:56:31 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Doomonyou

Any one of these would take down a Republican president (from rino-minor-league all the way to true Conservative). We’ll see what happens.


40 posted on 05/13/2013 1:56:32 PM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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