Posted on 05/31/2017 7:19:00 PM PDT by Helicondelta
There was a big ruckus four years ago when the Associated Press announced that telephone records for 20 of its reporters had been subpoenaed by the Justice Department.
The government was apparently looking for CIA leaks about an operation in Yemen.
Well, a Washington source of mine tells me it’s happening again. The Justice Department has gotten a warrant from the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court — also known as the FISA court — to conduct electronic surveillance on a group of journalists who’ve been the recipient of leaked information, the source said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
When Bush was President, Time Magazine had a reporter who was in contact with Al Qaeda. I suspect it was part of the reason that journalists threw a hissyfit about listening in on calls with known terrorists even if one of the participants was inside the US.
Can’t we just waterboard all the churnalists who have published leaks?
cass sunstein [samantha power] friends of forger soetoro....sunstein wants “stealth infiltration”
http://www.salon.com/2010/01/15/sunstein_2/
“a Washington source of mine tells me” = obviously fabricated “news” unless and until otherwise factually proven.
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