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Govt obtains wide AP phone records in probe
www.bigstory.ap.org ^ | 05/13/2013 | By MARK SHERMAN

Posted on 05/13/2013 1:39:46 PM PDT by redreno

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at bigstory.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: 201204; 201205; ap; associatedpress; breaking; dozier; ericholder; firedoj; govtabuse; holder; mediabias; obama; obamasfault; specialprosecutor; tyranny
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To: piasa
Nonsense.

Okay. Thanks for your time. R2z
81 posted on 05/13/2013 4:01:23 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: redreno

Wow...make enemies of the CIA and parts of the press in one week...that will end well.


82 posted on 05/13/2013 4:35:54 PM PDT by sandboxshooter (Iraq, Afghanistan, War)
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To: piasa

Nice work. Thanks.


83 posted on 05/13/2013 5:12:42 PM PDT by Dryman (Define Natural Born Citizen)
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To: don-o

I concur.


84 posted on 05/13/2013 5:13:40 PM PDT by Dryman (Define Natural Born Citizen)
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To: don-o

Yes, they said there was no plan to honor the one year anniversary of BinLaden dying and there was. So they looked stupid and didn’t want it out there.


86 posted on 05/13/2013 5:18:02 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: bert

Agreed. This was an act of intimidation. Even the ACLU said that much.


87 posted on 05/13/2013 5:21:13 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: redreno

It’s only a matter of time before Obama requires members of the press to get a permit after a background check in order to exercise their fundemental rights under the Constitution.


88 posted on 05/13/2013 5:22:05 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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89 posted on 05/13/2013 5:22:57 PM PDT by narses
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To: stephenjohnbanker
Obama is starting to make serious blunders. Throwing the CIA under the bus, now AP. I guess he really DOES think he’s invinceable.

These scandals have occurred over the last 1-3 years --more than half of his term of office. We're just hearing about them now.

90 posted on 05/13/2013 5:23:32 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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To: redreno
I realize that this is a clear violation of both the 1st and 4th amendments, and that it could be used against private citizens and conservative groups at any time, but I am having a difficult time feeling sorry for the lapdog AP right now.
91 posted on 05/14/2013 2:27:18 AM PDT by verga (A nation divided by Zero!)
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To: redreno
Dear MSM,
If your socialist utopia comes, you will be killed first.
Look up History. You will die first because you will be a threat
to those you have given power, the premise being that you can take it away.

And do you really think those in power will allow that?

Consider this illegal action a warning shot across your bow while you
bask in the awe and spectacle of being given crackers from your Messiah Obama.
You are being laughed at and you don't even care as long as you get the champagne brunch.

92 posted on 05/14/2013 2:39:59 AM PDT by MaxMax (Conservatism needs a re-awakening plan for the American public)
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To: The Antiyuppie; steerpike100
steerpike100 ~ This is just and proper. The government is a necessary and benign institution. If any of these presstitutes were doing anything improper, then they can expect an investigation, maybe starting with a perfunctory tap on their door at 2am.

The Antiyuppie ~ No tap.

I think more like 3 taps, one to the door with a boot heel, two to the trigger.

93 posted on 05/14/2013 6:43:22 AM PDT by null and void (The motto of all liberals is "Using your guilt and your gelt we can get away with anything!")
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To: bert; null and void

” The AP is being intimidated to threaten it with death if it follows the path of others on Bengazi”

Pretty clear message.


94 posted on 05/14/2013 9:38:20 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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