GOVT TAPS PRESS PHONE RECORDS FOR MONTHS
On Drudge Report:
Warning to reporters and sources: Assume all your communications are being monitored.
Time to move back to the parking garage #longhotsummer
Has the whole AP story been put out there to scare the press into compliance?
No, to silence whistleblowers, witnesses and leakers. To them, I say, learn where to buy a throwaway phone #DOJ
Probably both. And yes on the throwaway phone.
https://twitter.com/DRUDGE/status/334092367630049280
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20130513/DA68MMQ82.html
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 outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, for general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and for the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP. It was not clear if the records also included incoming calls or the duration of the calls. In all, the government seized the 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 where phone records were targeted, on a wide array of stories about government and other matters.On Drudge Report:
Warning to reporters and sources: Assume all your communications are being monitored.
Time to move back to the parking garage #longhotsummer
Has the whole AP story been put out there to scare the press into compliance?
No, to silence whistleblowers, witnesses and leakers. To them, I say, learn where to buy a throwaway phone #DOJ
Probably both. And yes on the throwaway phone.
https://twitter.com/DRUDGE/status/334092367630049280
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20130513/DA68MMQ82.html