RAW STORY
Monday May 15, 2006 ABC News' press office just sent out this release to news organizations, RAW STORY has learned. The story has been posted at the ABC NEWS blog (Read here).
ABC's Brian Ross and Richard Esposito Report: A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we call in an effort to root out confidential sources. "It's time for you to get some new cell phones, quick," the source told us in an in-person conversation. indication our phones were being tapped so the content of the conversation could be recorded. A pattern of phone calls from a reporter, however, could provide valuable clues for leak investigators. Comment: So the Bush government is listening in on newspaper reporters phone calls to make sure they are not planning on publishing stories about the Bush government listening in on American citizen's phone calls. There should be irony in there somewhere, but we can't find it.
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AFP
Mon May 15, 2006 WASHINGTON - A majority of Americans disapprove of the government's attempt to collect millions of telephone records from ordinary citizens, an opinion poll showed.
The survey by USA Today newspaper and Gallup also showed around two-thirds of respondents were concerned that the program conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA) may signal other, undisclosed efforts to gather information on the general public. By a margin of 51 percent to 43 percent, those polled disapproved of the program. |
By Anne Broache
CNET News.com May 15, 2006 WASHINGTON--A Republican senator on Monday questioned whether the federal government should be using its resources for large-scale data-mining efforts such as those associated with the National Security Agency's wiretapping program.
Speaking at a privacy seminar here at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, John Sununu of New Hampshire said the latest revelations that the nation's three biggest phone companies have delivered call records on potentially millions of Americans to the NSA raise concerns about the government's encroachment into private citizens' lives, even if the actions were legal. "The important question is whether or not this is activity that we think will yield a good result and whether we think it's activity in which the federal government should be engaged," Sununu said. |
By Tom Regan | csmonitor.com
May 16, 2006 at 11:20 a.m. The Federal Bureau of Investigation may be using National Security Letters, which where introduced in the USA Patriot Act, to gain access to phone records of reporters for ABC News, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.
ABC News reports that the FBI has acknowledged that it was seeking reporters' phone records to investigate leaks about secret prisons in Europe and warrantless wiretapping. "It used to be very hard and complicated to do this, but it no longer is in the Bush administration," a senior federal official told ABC News "The Blotter" news blog. |
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