Posted on 05/15/2006 8:33:11 AM PDT by jmc1969
A senior federal law enforcement official tells us the government is tracking the phone numbers we call in an effort to root out confidential sources.
"It's time for you to get some new cell phones, quick," the source told us in an in-person conversation.
We do not know how the government determined who we are calling, or whether our phone records were provided to the government as part of the recently-disclosed NSA collection of domestic phone calls.
Other sources have told us that phone calls and contacts by reporters for ABC News, along with the New York Times and the Washington Post, are being examined as part of a widespread CIA leak investigation.
One former official was asked to sign a document stating he was not a confidential source for New York Times reporter James Risen.
Our reports on the CIA's secret prisons in Romania and Poland were known to have upset CIA officials.
People questioned by the FBI about leaks of intelligence information say the CIA was also disturbed by ABC News reports that revealed the use of CIA predator missiles inside Pakistan.
Under Bush Administration guidelines, it is not considered illegal for the government to keep track of numbers dialed by phone customers.
The official who warned ABC News said there was no indication our phones were being tapped so the content of the conversation could be recorded.
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What makes you think the non-traitorous Freepers won't approve?
Good, that would be the start of a 2nd civil war. I know what side would win.
These traitorous bums, who put a scoop above principle and who think patriotism is a four letter word equivalent, are obviously running scared. One of those who undoubtedly is under investigation is Lelie Cauley of USA Today who broke the recent story on computers and telephone calls. As Cauley formerly worked with the Wall Street Journal and did a number of articles and a book on AT&T, it should be obvious that someone at AT&T should also be running scared.
Those who know how to manipulate the stock market could start to go after Gannett, which owns USA Today. It would be difficult to hit GCI stock hard, but it could be done even though more than 80% of the stock is institutionally owned. Perhaps one way of doing it is to embarass Gannett's largest stockholder Private Capital Management, which also has recently tried to purchase cheap the pieces of the Scripps-Howard debacle. Private Capital was bought out by Legg Mason Inc., in 2001, but Bruce Sherman of Naples, Florida, is still President and handling purchases. It would be nice to find out what Private Capital and Legg Mason are up to.
Leahy is afraid that Bush will discover that the terrorists have been talking to some of his friends at Yale who arranged for a Taliban member to attend college there, even though the terrorist only has a 3rd grade education. What is worse, Yale lowering its entrance requirements or Yale dealing with the enemy, while their ROTC unit was kicked off campus and has to travel 80 miles for training.
And if Hillary Clinton gets in power, she'll be doing this to FNC, and she WILL use it to make leakers disappear into the night. Scary.
So, you say you are involved in something treasonous, illegal, or just plain disgraceful? That's what cell phones off the rack are for! WalMart has a large selection.
If someone turns over the phone link records to me, and pays my fee plus expenses, I may find interesting linkages.
Divorce attorneys, private investigators, investigative reporters, district attorneys, in terms of data, if you've got the money, I've got the mine.
The SUPREME COURT has already said keep a pin registry is not illegal. Reporters are so illiterate.
The MSM is in a panic since their sources now have criminal prosecution as a definite possibility.
Sarandon in that picture looks like her husband has been choking her?? She looks very bruised up around the neck. Given that the extreme moonbat Hollywood liberal men abuse their women (Baldwin, Sheen, etc) I wouldn't be surprised if Tim Robbins is a woman beater too.
Here's more: http://tinyurl.com/ran64
"NSA Whistleblower To Allege Unlawful Acts, Name Hayden"
what makes you think we want CIA people leaking classified information to Fox News?
Yep, I bet DA Nifong would have fun with that database. And you know that the government won't just stop with antiterrorism, just as provisions of the Patriot Act have been used for general law enforcement.
hehehe, at least some people still look at the big picture...
Messers Ross and Esposito sound a little paranoid to me. Leakers and irresponsible reporters are just as much a threat to our national security as those islamo-freaks. I have no sympathy for any of them.
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