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USDOJ goes after the AP

2013-05-13 23:14:52.934032+02 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

Justice Department obtains a broad swath of AP phone records:

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.

If you called the AP during April and May 2012, you might wanna retain a lawyer. Allegedly this is over a May 7 2012 story about an airplane bombing plot that was foiled in Yemen, but...

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#Comment Re: made: 2013-05-15 04:25:40.78758+02 by: Dan Lyke

Salon runs down some of the inconsistencies in the DOJ's story.

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