You are not exempt from being crushed under the boot of the fascism that is Obamugabe.
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.
Your comment, with your username... is priceless.
I’ve seen this error made by others too. Unfortunately, i am old enough to remember. Nixon was NOT impeached. He resigned.
Neither was I...and I'm almost 70!
OOPS thanks for the correction
I think the parents of the Navy Seals downed in Afghanistan have some very good questions but not hearing much about it with everything else. I hope someone stays on the story.
I doubt it. Obama is a Chicago street thug. He makes threats. He kills.
He will die, like Hitler, in his bunker before he will rsign
fast n furious needs to be added. where are the mexicans? hundreds if not thousands are dead at the hands these people.
Bump for later reading. Thank you!
That’s right, they’ve been throwing things at us like rotton tomatoes at a bad actor for so long and we need to keep throwing all of them back. Keep it going from all sides. Not having the media hurts; if I had plenty of money I’d rent every billboard in the country.
You are not exempt from being crushed under the boot of the fascism that is Obamugabe.
IT’S COMING!! THE DEMS CAN HEAR THE ROAR OF THE WAVES ALREADY!!!
Add Pigford. if you're making a list.
Pre-emptive defeat. Defeatism helps the enemy. The fact is the tide is turning, they aren’t going to win.
Well, THAT will certainly take Benghazi off the radar for awhile.
The minute republican investigations turn to impeachment issues, the battle is lost.
Does anyone truly believe the media wouldn’t sign on to this smoke screen to lead the investigation away from Benghazi?
Certain things can be a yawn like the birth certificate stuff.
#1 Someone stopped the military from helping our people getting killed in Libya...WHO and why didn’t Hillary testify under oath?
#2 IRS picking on people who are Jews or Conservatives.
#3 Screws the press by listening in on all their stories and sources.
I think there will be far more screaming than yawns.
Arkansas recruiting center shootings
Seattle Jewish center shooting
Undy bomber
Ft Hood shootings
Boston Marathon bombings
As regards Benghazi....I’d like to see it move beyond the coverup for benefit of re-election....I’m not sure if such an excuse for lying will take hold. We need to see them dig deeper into the investigation to see WHY Americans were allowed to die and if the government was covering up for gun-running. I suspect THAT is the real reason witnesses are being kept from us.
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