What is *this* all about? We are paying those guys' salaries.
Nothing to worry about here. This is a standard journalistic practice when a biased reporter wants to discredit a source. By making a phone call and waiting a minute or two for a return call which doesn't come, they can use this to hint at a coverup, or guilty behavior by the target. He can truthfully say the call wasn't "returned immediately". It's just plain old BS.