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(AP) The Obama Administration’s third scandal in a week erupted today with reports that the Dept of Justice (DoJ) secretly seized two months of telephone records of Editors & Reporters of the Associated Press in what the news cooperatives top Executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather news.
The records stolen by the DoJ listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual Reporters, for General AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, CT, together with the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to Attorneys for the AP–It is not clear if the stolen records also included incoming calls or the duration of calls.
In all, the government illegally seized records for more than 20 separate phone lines assigned to the AP and its Journalists in April and May 2012 the exact number of Journalists who used the phone lines during the 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.
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