DOJ Seized Phone Records Of Numbers Tied To Fox News Lines, Documents Show -- FOX News
Newly uncovered court documents show the Justice Department seized phone records associated with several Fox News lines as part of a leak investigation -- a revelation that comes as the White House Correspondents' Association spoke out against the administration's monitoring of reporters.
Documents from October 2011 appear to show exchanges that match the specific locations of Fox News' White House, Pentagon, State Department and other operations. The last four digits of each of the phone numbers listed are redacted in the government filing so it is impossible to know the full numbers.
Meanwhile, the Correspondents' Association spoke out on incidents involving two news organizations. The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of phone records from the Associated Press and obtained a search warrant for the personal emails of Fox News' James Rosen. The information about the phone records was uncovered Tuesday.
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More News On The DOJ Targeting Journalists As Part Of A Leak Investigation
The Justice Department and Fox News’s Phone Records -- Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker
Fox News: ‘They went into our computer servers at Fox News’ -- Erik Wemple, Washington Post
The FBI's Case for Reading a Fox News Reporter's E-mail -- Paul Barrett, Bloomberg Businessweek
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters -- Dana Milbank, Washington Post
Report: Justice Dept. seized multiple Fox News, White House phone records -- Politico
Update #1: The New York Times has a collection of opinions on "Obama, the Media and National Security".
Update #2: CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson believes that she has also been targeted by the White House.
My Comment: Criminalizing what reporters do sends a chill up my spine .... and I cannot help but feel that is just the tip of the iceberg.
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