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BREAKING NEWS: DRUDGE SIREN - Govt obtains wide AP phone records in probe
Drudge Report ^ | 05-13-2013 | cww

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.

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To: CWW
Oops. The media is stunned that Barry has been eating their pie. Payback is a comin’.
261 posted on 05/13/2013 2:51:33 PM PDT by JPG (Stay strong.)
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To: Old Yeller

Thanks for the laugh.


262 posted on 05/13/2013 2:52:28 PM PDT by winkadink (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell)
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To: CWW

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


263 posted on 05/13/2013 2:53:20 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....History is a process, not an event)
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To: RummyChick
Matt Drudge alsoposted a link to this piece as a reminder:

OBAMA'S SIGNATURE MOVE: UNSEALING PRIVATE RECORDS

264 posted on 05/13/2013 2:53:38 PM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: A CA Guy

Yawn. Another issue which will just be glossed over.


265 posted on 05/13/2013 2:53:51 PM PDT by petercooper
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To: MamaDearest

Next.... O’bummer will need to start a big war to distract everyone from all his scandals!!!


266 posted on 05/13/2013 2:54:39 PM PDT by tired&retired
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To: MHGinTN

:)


267 posted on 05/13/2013 2:55:23 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: tired&retired

Hell he won’t even need to start one. He’ll just throw us into Syria. A “ready made” war.


268 posted on 05/13/2013 2:55:25 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: Albion Wilde

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/


269 posted on 05/13/2013 2:55:36 PM PDT by abb
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To: Mr. Jeeves

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...


270 posted on 05/13/2013 2:55:57 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: blueyon

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.


271 posted on 05/13/2013 2:56:01 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: CWW

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.


272 posted on 05/13/2013 2:56:23 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: Toespi

+ Illegal Campaign Contributions from China.


273 posted on 05/13/2013 2:56:27 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Arguing with a marxist is like playing Chess with a Pigeon.)
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To: Fitzy_888
Know Rush Limbaugh will rip them limb from limb.

Mark Levin is coming on in a few minutes. He takes NO prisoners.

274 posted on 05/13/2013 2:58:29 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: RummyChick
Wow. So they demanded the phone records at AP because of a leaked foiled bomb plot in Yemen ? So they thought the AP was helping terrorist in Yemen ? Or they thought the AP was getting leaks from someone helping the terrorist in Yemen ?

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 ?

275 posted on 05/13/2013 2:58:34 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: Doomonyou
The hits just keep on coming!

An accurate observation that provides a chuckle in light of your FR name! It does seem like someone swatted a house of cards within the past few weeks, doesn't it? GOOD. I hope soon, instead of a tear in the corner his eye, Obama's sobbing and whining like a baby in front of the press corps.
276 posted on 05/13/2013 2:58:47 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Sure looks like a movement is beginning to sacrifice Obama to save Hillary. I guess the Clinton faction in DC has their marching orders.

- - - - - - - - - - - - -

Bingo!


277 posted on 05/13/2013 2:59:58 PM PDT by cblue55 ("Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants,")
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To: McGruff

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.

278 posted on 05/13/2013 3:00:22 PM PDT by MaxMax (Conservatism needs a re-awakening plan for the American public)
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To: Old Yeller

“Spooks in the CIA are retaliating for O’barry walking all over them.”

That would be my guess.


279 posted on 05/13/2013 3:00:49 PM PDT by nolongerademocrat ("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
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To: greyfoxx39

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??


280 posted on 05/13/2013 3:00:51 PM PDT by Thom Pain (U.S. Constitution is a CONTRACT!)
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