Cenk Uygur
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War on Leaks? Government Secretly Grabs AP Phone Records
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May 14, 2013
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4:55Now Playing"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 AP has revealed that the government perfomred an intrusive search on phone lines- even personl ones- associated with the AP. Why? Well, it couldn't have anything to with a story broken about the govenrment, nor the AP's reporters trying to keep their sources safe. Ben Makiewicz breaks down this blatant intrusion.
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