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.
Thanks for the laugh.
I read 25 posts and no one got it. This is a preemptive strike, a warning, a threat to the AP to lay off Bengazi
It’s geeting bad in the White House.
Impeach....... No, lynch
Yawn. Another issue which will just be glossed over.
Next.... O’bummer will need to start a big war to distract everyone from all his scandals!!!
:)
Hell he won’t even need to start one. He’ll just throw us into Syria. A “ready made” war.
Watch these two websites for either deafening silence or screaming indignation on the subject. They are both sites where professional “newsies” hang out.
http://jimromenesko.com/
http://www.poynter.org/category/latest-news/mediawire/
Hillary is smeared by the four deaths anyway.
#1 Why refuse to testify under oath?
#2 How did the military get refused twice to go in and save people when they had people less than an hour away?
and so on...
Yep!
But this all is obviously the work of some rogue underling, and Obozo is going to fight to get to the bottom of this while claiming executive privilege the whole time.
Trust Anderson Cooper will still be doing shake-n-bake with the Cincinnati Hell House. No Benghazi, no Gosnell, no AP taps.
CNN will probably build a Hell House torture sound stage complete with hanging chains and monkey bars for Anderson Cooper to swing on.
+ Illegal Campaign Contributions from China.
Mark Levin is coming on in a few minutes. He takes NO prisoners.
Looks like the Sunni/Shiite conflict has rolled up some heavy DC insiders.
Or perhaps this is just more of Obama's Muslim Brotherhood covering up the Islamic terror links ?
Sure looks like a movement is beginning to sacrifice Obama to save Hillary. I guess the Clinton faction in DC has their marching orders.
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Bingo!
There is a plausible explanation for this, and the Republicans
are making political hay out of nothing at all.
Look, all that happened was our computers dialed the wrong numbers
and somehow got mixed up with our man on mars explorer while looking
for UFO's with the Ark of the Covenant in it.
We have more important things to talk about like Gay Marriage and
Republicans starving children to death in their sleep.
“Spooks in the CIA are retaliating for O’barry walking all over them.”
That would be my guess.
Why is it that Libs/Progressives (whose “ethics” consist of “f*ck you the minute you are no longer useful to me”) are always shocked when their Lib/Progressive “friends” turn on them??
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