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.
That dude looks like a rat.
Don’t forget cash for clunkers. Putting dealers out of business who didn’t “fall in line”
It’s not like we weren’t warned. Valerie Jarrett plainly said after the election that for all those that opposed the Halfrican there would be hell to pay. Thus the IRS inquisitions and the snooping through the AP’s underwear drawer. The AP is Barry’s bitch and they temporarily forgot their place when Barry used them as such. But like a good whore they’ll come crawling back once the swelling goes down and apologize for making Barry hurt his hand on their faces. Neither a pimp nor a ho’ can survive on their own so they’ll patch things up get back to the business of screwing America.
Once a dictator or wannabe thinks he has enough power to do as he pleases, the media suddenly becomes a threat rather than an asset. The power to prop him up becomes the power to take him down. Obama jumped the gun though. This could prove to be be interesting.
Somebody is sure trying to sink Obama - anybody seen Hillary lately????.....
I am cautiously downright giddy.
ANything is better than the lying illegal marxist/racist/muzzie loving/fag/doper in the WH. If he got kicked out, the Dem “brand” would be so tainted that Biden would be jeered where ever he went. He’d be utterly neutered. If he didn’t go down with his team mate.
What the System wants and what the System will get are two different animals.
US: CIA thwarts new al-Qaida underwear bomb plot
seattle times ^ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2880974/posts Posted on Monday, May 07, 2012 4:26:58 PM by Perdogg
It’s funny, the other day someone posted on pinterest a little graphic that had a plain black background with the words:
“Don’t give up, I’m on my way. (signed) God”
And then this all happened. I’m feeling hopeful, for the first time in a long time.
The AP article in question:
US: CIA thwarts new al-Qaida underwear bomb plot
seattle times ^ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2880974/posts Posted on Monday, May 07, 2012 4:26:58 PM by Perdogg
[Not CIA op but UK & Saudia Arabia, and someone leaked it to make WH look good right after UK informed US]
“Somebody is sure trying to sink Obama - anybody seen Hillary lately?”
Great point. I went all day NOT thinking of Hillary, then I realized.... “OH. HILLARY.”
Obviously she’s throwing the kitchen sink at Obamatollah.
Benghazi was heading her way, until today. At this point, Omoslem is served up on a platter, with 99 scandals to wade thru.
And the folks overseas who actually conceived and executed the risky work are none too happy about their loose-lipped American cousins trying to bolster someone's domestic political standing by leaking the story prematurely, destroying the agent's cover and future usefulness. And possibly betraying that agent's contacts within Yemen.
It has to do with the airline terror plot that turned out to be a British(?) agent instead of a real terrorist.
The dems. were using the Trayvon Martin case to try and get Blacks to protest and march in the streets.
Not to worry, I bet there is no connection whatsoever with the lefties orchestrating a protest and a terrorist attack, it was just “spontaneous”.
I think the Liberal Messiah is starting to lose it. Why else would he be spying on the AP, which is so friendly to him?
“The entire Obama Gestapo needs to be run outta Dodge!”
Are you referring to the Ostapo ?
I'm pretty sure the base percentage of fearless patriots is a lot higher today, than during the revolution. I'll bet it's no less than 10 to 15%.
The mack daddy dictator is only pushing it higher.
Whoever leaked the info to AP did it to make Obama’s WOT efforts look good.
Obama isn’t going after the AP.
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