Govt obtains wide AP phone records in probe

[Ernie S.]

It will be interesting to see how AG Holder spins THIS one.

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.

 

[kwc57]

It will be interesting to see how AG Holder spins THIS one.

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.

Probably a totally unauthorized bureaucratic misstep by some underling in Cincinatti.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Bush made them do it. Im sure of it!


Looking at all the news of the last week is like watching the bath water circle the drain.

 

[Ernie S.]

I wouldn't doubt "Fast and Furious" figures in here some how.

 

[OriginalShroom]

Man..

Could Obama be having a worse week?

Now he is definitely going to have the media pissed at him.

Wiretapping the AP phones regardless of who was using them... Has that ever been done before?

First Benghazi emails, then the IRS scandal, now this.

I'm gonna need a ton of popcorn.

 

[Ernie S.]

Practice saying President Biden..

 

[legaleagle_45]

Probably a totally unauthorized bureaucratic misstep by some underling in Cincinatti.

Or Phoenix... don't forget the underlings at the Phoenix office of the BATFE

 

[OriginalShroom]

Practice saying President Biden..

ROFLMAO


In Horror at the thought of that.

 

[tyroneweaver]

why would the doj investigate an organization that has been friendly to their side.

news organizations aren't going to turn on obama

this will turn into a big misunderstanding.

 

[Two Thumbs]

It will be interesting to see how AG Holder spins THIS one.

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.

Initiated by low level employees working on their own
It was a Bush appointee
I did not have sex with that woman
Look Squirrel!

 

[Mac1958]

.

You've gotta be kidding me.

This is getting ridiculous.

.

 

[Two Thumbs]

Practice saying President Biden..

Go
Fuck
Yourself

 

[Two Thumbs]

It's just invasion of privacy and theft.

It's only wrong when the gop does it.

 

[kwc57]

Famous last words.

Nixon - I'm not a crook.

Clinton - I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.

Obama - There's no there there.

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[Remodeling Maidiac]

Practice saying President Biden..

Fuck that!

 

[Ernie S.]

Really! The possibility of a President Biden is the only thing keeping the Comrad-in-Chief in office.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

...because of a video

 

[Clementine]

It will be interesting to see how AG Holder spins THIS one.

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.

This adminstration has no shame. They seem to think they can do whatever the hell they want without regard to peoples' rights. Maybe they got away with this shit in Chicago, but they are out of line and need to answer for what they've done. Is this an effort to control the media?

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.

Govt obtains wide AP phone records in probe

 

[Ernie S.]

I'm thinking it's a DOJ/ATF operation to see how Mexican drug cartels are obtaining pressure cookers.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

This is fucking incredible. I'm starting to support the idea of impeachment.