U.S. Gov. seized journalists' phone records
Response to comment [from a Christian]: "I bet you that they will blame "low level employees" for this mess..."
"What difference does
it make?!"
~ Hillary Clinton
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Govt Taps Press Phone Records for Months
20 phone lines monitored at AP
'Massive and unprecedented intrusion'
WH: We are not involved, go ask Justice
Holder lashes out at Issa during tense hearing, calls conduct 'shameful'
Response to comment [from a Christian]: "Obama is unbelievable the only reason he tapped AP reporters is because they did not allow him enough time to brag about his success on a foiled terrorism plot..." http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...767_print.html
For five days, reporters at the Associated Press had been sitting on a big scoop about a foiled al-Qaeda plot at the request of CIA officials. Then, in a hastily scheduled Monday morning meeting, the journalists were asked by agency officials to hold off on publishing the story for just one more day.
The CIA officials, who had initially cited national security concerns in an attempt to delay publication, no longer had those worries, according to individuals familiar with the exchange. Instead, the Obama administration was planning to announce the successful counterterrorism operation that Tuesday.
AP balked and proceeded to publish that Monday afternoon. Its May 2012 report is now at the center of a controversial and broad seizure of phone records of AP reporters’ home, office and cellphone lines. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said the unauthorized disclosure about an intelligence operation to stop al-Qaeda from detonating explosives aboard a U.S. airliner was among the most serious leaks he could remember, and justified secretly obtaining records from a handful of reporters and editors over a span of two months.
Now, some members of Congress and media advocates are questioning why the administration viewed the leak that led to the May 7 AP story as so grave.
The president’s top counterterrorism adviser at the time, John O. Brennan, had appeared on “Good Morning America” the following day to trumpet the successful operation. He said that because of the work of U.S. intelligence, the plot did not pose an active threat to the American public.
Holder said this week that the unauthorized disclosure “put the American people at risk.”
Chilling report: Obama’s DOJ spied on Fox
News’ James Rosen; Criminalizes reporting;
Update: Fox issues statement
Glenn Greenwald: Accusing James Rosen of
committing crimes - for basic reporting -
may be the most dangerous thing the Obama
DOJ has done yet
Sharyl Attkisson: “I can confirm that an
intrusion of my computers has been under
some investigation on my end for some
months..."
Flashback:
Holder: AP probe involved 'very serious
leak'
Eric Holder recused himself from leak probe
"...to avoid any potential appearance of a
conflict of interest...”
DOJ seized phone records for Fox News
numbers, reporter's parents
Feds: We didn't track James Rosen's parents'
calls
Eric Holder signed off on Fox News, James
Rosen monitoring, calls for resignation
begin
Report: Holder went judge shopping to obtain
Fox News Subpoena
Response to comment [from a Catholic]: "Barbarian chuckles..."
House Judiciary Committee to investigate
Eric Holder for potential perjury
Republican report concludes Holder misled Congress on reporter targeting
