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.
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Wow...make enemies of the CIA and parts of the press in one week...that will end well.
Nice work. Thanks.
I concur.
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.
Agreed. This was an act of intimidation. Even the ACLU said that much.
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.
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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.
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.
The Antiyuppie ~ No tap.
I think more like 3 taps, one to the door with a boot heel, two to the trigger.
” The AP is being intimidated to threaten it with death if it follows the path of others on Bengazi”
Pretty clear message.
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