Govt obtains wide AP phone records in probe

[zeitgeist]

In this April 18, 2013 file photo, Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Justice Department has secretly obtained two months of telephone records of journalists for The Associated Press in what AP's top executive says is an unprecedented intrusion into newsgathering. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20130513/DA68L3181.html

May 13, 4:48 PM (ET)

By MARK SHERMAN

 
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.

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.

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.

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Holy Press Problems Batman, Obie is having a bad week and it's only Monday!

One sure way to lose the main stream media.  Nixon in blackface?  Holder to be the next John Mitchell?   Stay tuned lurking DUmmies, same Bat time, same Bat channel.   

[chitownchica]

Oh man- I just saw this on twitter. I need to work, but I'm so distracted by the seemingly non-stop deluge of Obama corruption.

Can't wait to see the sycophants try to spin this.

 

[chitownchica]

[Ptarmigan]

Now this???????? 

[J P Sousa]

Hmmmm, is this enough to say; "the Obama-Media honeymoon LOVE affair is over"  ?????  


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[ColonelCarrots]

Turning on their own. Poor babies.

[miskie]

Obama porked the AP ?

DUmbass just killed the golden goose.

[chitownchica]

It's now time for the entire public to unleash Operation Mock Obama.  That seems to be the thing that makes him explode.

[zeitgeist]

My theory is once the press senses blood in the water this will take on a life of its own.  Obie and friends can only keep so many plates in the air before they start to wobble and collide.


We'll have to wait and see if he is good enough for Ed Sullivan
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhoos1oY404[/youtube]

[Mr Mannn]

Its a good bet we'll be finding FBI files on ALL the reporters in DC.

[Chris_]

Man, this Obama guy makes Nixon look like a grade-school bully and Johnson a competent Commander-in-Chief.

[Chris_]

“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.”

“We regard this action by the Department of Justice as a serious interference with AP’s constitutional rights to gather and report the news.”

Associated Press

That's it, it's over.  Obama is toast... he's not going to get re-elected.

What's AP going to do?  Stop carrying Obama's water and covering his ass?  I doubt the tone and bias in the AP's reporting is going to change much.

[J P Sousa]

Its a good bet we'll be finding FBI files on ALL the reporters in DC.

I thought that when ol'e  J. Edgar was no longer in charge of the FBI, we wouldn't have all this "'FBI' files on everybody" stuff.  
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[zeitgeist]

Associated Press

That's it, it's over.  Obama is toast... he's not going to get re-elected.

What's AP going to do?  Stop carrying Obama's water and covering his ass?  I doubt the tone and bias in the AP's reporting is going to change much.

Their just pissed that ABC and CBS both have more juice with the WH because they have the nepotism thing going for 'em.

http://www.therightscoop.com/richard-grenell-both-abc-and-cbs-presidents-have-siblings-that-work-for-obama-at-the-white-house/


Richard Grenell: Both ABC and CBS presidents have SIBLINGS that work for Obama at the White House

Posted by The Right Scoop The Right Scoop  on May 11th, 2013 in Politics | 121 Comments
 

 
Richard Grenell, Foreign Policy expert and media critic, reveals that both ABC and CBS presidents have siblings that work for Obama at the White House on his National Security Council, and he believes that the lack of coverage on the Benghazi hearings this week can be directly attributed to that:

Just plain ole sour grapes on AP's part I recon.

[Dori]

Holy Press Problems Batman, Obie is having a bad week and it's only Monday!

One sure way to lose the main stream media.  Nixon in blackface?  Holder to be the next John Mitchell?   Stay tuned lurking DUmmies, same Bat time, same Bat channel.  

 

Holy Hillary Batboy  

[J P Sousa]

Their just pissed that ABC and CBS both have more juice with the WH because they have the nepotism thing going for 'em.

Just plain ole sour grapes on AP's part I recon.

Yeah, THEIR relatives didn't get a political job with Barry.   
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[zeitgeist]

I thought that when ol'e  J. Edgar was no longer in charge of the FBI, we wouldn't have all this "'FBI' files on everybody" stuff.  
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Hillary got 'em in the palimony settlement.  

(I have always suspected Bill knew she would take the whole till death to us part thing literally, they only tied a 'slip' knot).  

[Dori]

I'm getting the feeling there will be more SHTF coming down on this Administration.....but from who? 

[J P Sousa]

I'm getting the feeling there will be more SHTF coming down on this Administration.....but from who? 

Well, it's a lot like the mafia;

  The oath included five basic principles, upon which the mafia Obama administration was (and still is) based:


1. A code of silence - Never to "rat out" any mafia Obama member.  Never to divulge any mafia Obama secrets.  Even if they were threatened by torture or death.

2. Complete obedience to the boss - Obey the boss's orders, no matter what.

3. Assistance - To provide any necessary assistance to any other respected or befriended mafia Obama faction.

4. Vengeance - Any attacks on family members must be avenged. "An attack on one is an attack on all."

5. Avoid contact with the authorities conservative press.
 

 
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[DefiantSix]

Checking for sympathy for the butt-hurt AP...


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Nope; not one single **** was given for AP. To quote the notorious Wilhelm von der Schleikmeister:

Better put some ice on that.

[thundley4]

If Obama was a Republican , all of the media would be calling for investigations and special prosecutors.  Since it is Obama, he'll get a pass after a few nasty worded editorials.

[Chris_]

Officials have previously said in public testimony that the U.S. attorney in Washington is conducting a criminal investigation into who may have provided information contained in a May 7, 2012, AP story about a foiled terror plot. The story disclosed details of a CIA operation in Yemen that stopped an al-Qaida plot in the spring of 2012 to detonate a bomb on an airplane bound for the United States.

Associated Press

According to the DOJ, the Associated Press allegedly published classified information.  So the Obama administration has a security problem on their hands.

[Lacarnut]

We are stuck with Obummer for the rest of his term but I sure would be thrilled if that racist POS Holder was ousted and humiliated. Be nice if he spent some time in the slammer also.

[Ptarmigan]

Well, they wanted Obama president in 2012. No?

[thundley4]

If they did this to the Obama friendly AP, what are they doing to Fox News?