[privacy] FBI Acknowledges: Journalists Phone Records are Fair Game

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Brian Ross and Richard Esposito report on the ABC News
"The Blotter":

[snip]

The FBI acknowledged late Monday that it is increasingly seeking reporters’ phone records in leak investigations.

“It used to be very hard and complicated to do this, but it no longer is in the Bush administration,” said a senior 
federal official.

The acknowledgement followed our blotter item that ABC News reporters had been warned by a federal source that the 
government knew who we were calling.

The official said our blotter item was wrong to suggest that ABC News phone calls were being “tracked.”

“Think of it more as backtracking,” said a senior federal official.

[snip]

More:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/05/fbi_acknowledge.html

- ferg


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