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US Justice Department Acknowledges Wide-Ranging Surveillance Of Associated Press
Monday, May 13, 2013 13:57
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The president of the Associated Press has sent a letter of protest to US Attorney General Eric Holder over the Department of Justice’s broad surveillance of individual reporters’ phone conversations.
In a letter received by the AP on Friday, the Justice Department acknowledged but offered no explanation for the seizure of two months’ worth of telephone records of reporters and editors. AP’s president, Gary Pruitt, called the ongoing monitoring a “massive and unprecedented intrusion.”
The AP believes that more than 100 journalists are involved in the DOJ’s phone surveillance, which would have involved a wide variety of stories regarding government and other topics. Pruitt has called for the return of obtained phone records, as well as the destruction of all copies.
Wow. The air has to be gtting thick for the Obama administration. Last few days have revealed this, beghazi coverup and the irs targeting obama’s political opponents. Who thinks he will actually see any punishment though? -Mort
