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Monday, May 15, 2006

ABC News: Federal Government is Spying on Journalists’ Phone Calls

Posted by on May 15 at 10:05 AM

Among the targeted media outlets: ABC News, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.

A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we call in an effort to root out confidential sources.

“It’s time for you to get some new cell phones, quick,” the source told us in an in-person conversation.

ABC News does not know how the government determined who we are calling, or whether our phone records were provided to the government as part of the recently-disclosed NSA collection of domestic phone calls.

Other sources have told us that phone calls and contacts by reporters for ABC News, along with the New York Times and the Washington Post, are being examined as part of a widespread CIA leak investigation.


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HA HA! YOUR FREEDOMS ARE GONE!!

WELCOME TO NEW CHINA!!


Check out the scary comments on the ABC site. So many people delighted that ABC is getting punished for "leaks" and glad that Bush is sticking it to'em.

Way to guarantee negative press coverage of your wiretapping programs, government! Good job!

Sarcasm aside, the more journalists who are ticked off at the Bush administration, the better.

scary, don't be scared by the loud 29% of americans who are complete idiots.

The law had been changed in such a way that the .... actions were not subject to judicial review. The .... was specifically exempted from responsibility to administrative courts, where citizens normally could sue the state to conform to laws.

Fill in the blanks anyone??

The correct answer is .... gestapo. (From the wikipedia article on the gestapo).

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