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.
This is a lie - smoke and mirrors.
Hillary wouldn't benefit from Obama's demise anymore that Gerald Ford benefited from Nixon's. To the contrary, if one of these scandals breaks wide open, the chances of a Dem winning the White House in 2016 drop precipitously.
what ?
The regime releasing 2,000+ criminal illegal aliens.
Video at HuffPo, HP interviewing an AP reporter. Both seem shocked.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/13/ap-phone-records-doj-leaks_n_3268932.html
I don’t believe it. They’ve protected the King for this long. Do you really believe he’s going to fall hard over something like this. They’ll ease him down and we’ll all feel better knowing he got called on the carpet. Smoke and mirrors.
“The hits just keep on coming!”
And this is only Monday.
I’ll bet the birth certificate is coming soon...
THe MSM put him there, they can take him down any time they want. In a short while, (IMHO), EVERYTHING about 0mozlem will be on the table for dicussion. Including his forged documents and his real identity.
And it is SWEET!
Could be a really interesting week.
you have a good day......
You, too.
I wonder if John McCain is still against impeachment---still willing to give Obama the "benefit of the doubt?"
Fool.
(you don't think this is the ONLY incident, do you?)
John likes to get along, but will the press after this?
People I talked with already over this said that they are first leftists and secondly reporters, so no harm, no foul.
The 4th scandal has to do with HHS shaking down businesses for $$$$. I’m not completely up on that one yet.
It will be interesting to see, when push comes to shove, how "much" those lefty so-called journalists are willing to take.
Do they really care about 'friendly fire' if it helps the cause?
From insanity into psychosis. YESssssssssssss whaaaaahahahahahaha
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