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GOVT OBTAINS WIDE AP PHONE RECORDS IN PROBE
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.
Govt obtains wide AP phone records in probe
Then IRS has been auditing based on political persuasion...
n the book, written before news broke about the IRS targeting conservative groups prompted by the Tea Party movement, Rumsfeld suggests that the agency has a record of targeting critics.
"Having been in the position of a chief executive officer, I can understand why a businessman might be reluctant to speak out against the actions of federal agencies that have the power to harm their enterprises," he wrote in Rumsfeld's Rules, which goes on sale Tuesday.
A little over a year ago, I reported that, It is likely that someone at the Internal Revenue Service illegally leaked confidential donor information showing a contribution from Mitt Romneys political action committee to the National Organization for Marriage, says the group.
Now on the heels of news the IRSs apology for having targeted conservative groups NOM is renewing their demand that the Internal Revenue Service reveal the identity of the people responsible.
There is little question that one or more employees at the IRS stole our confidential tax return and leaked it to our political enemies, in violation of federal law, said NOMs president Brian Brow, in a prepared statement.
Read more: The IRS admits to 'targeting' conservative groups, but were they also 'leaking'? | The Daily Caller
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.
Govt obtains wide AP phone records in probe
Then IRS has been auditing based on political persuasion...
n the book, written before news broke about the IRS targeting conservative groups prompted by the Tea Party movement, Rumsfeld suggests that the agency has a record of targeting critics.
"Having been in the position of a chief executive officer, I can understand why a businessman might be reluctant to speak out against the actions of federal agencies that have the power to harm their enterprises," he wrote in Rumsfeld's Rules, which goes on sale Tuesday.
A little over a year ago, I reported that, It is likely that someone at the Internal Revenue Service illegally leaked confidential donor information showing a contribution from Mitt Romneys political action committee to the National Organization for Marriage, says the group.
Now on the heels of news the IRSs apology for having targeted conservative groups NOM is renewing their demand that the Internal Revenue Service reveal the identity of the people responsible.
There is little question that one or more employees at the IRS stole our confidential tax return and leaked it to our political enemies, in violation of federal law, said NOMs president Brian Brow, in a prepared statement.
Read more: The IRS admits to 'targeting' conservative groups, but were they also 'leaking'? | The Daily Caller
